The Diamond as Big as the Ritz | Historical Context
Isolationism and Prohibition
Before World War II (1939–1945), the United States had a tendency towards isolationism; Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916 running on the slogan, “He Kept Us Out of War.” However, the next year the United States entered World War I, after German submarines sank the Lusitania, killing nearly twelve hundred people, among whom were over one hundred children and one hundred and twenty Americans.
By the time “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” was published, the war had been over for almost four years, and the United States...
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