Discuss the American experience during the “years between the wars.” What are its essential characteristics, principal concerns, guiding trends, and signal events? What defined the era, and how, if at all, did American society change during these years? How do you account either for the change or the continuity? What kind of evidence sustains your assertions? Finally this: How should this story be told? In your opinion, what is the most important thing (or things) that Americans now and in the future should know about the American experience following the Armistice of 1918 and before the air raid on Pearl Harbor in 1941? Discuss. Events, trends, concerns, etc. can include: 1. The Great Depression 2. Mass media 3. Urbanization 4. Westward expansion 5. The Dust Bowl 6. Modernism 7. Franklin D. Roosevelt 8. Henry Ford 9. Creative content (movies, music, paintings, etc.) 10. The new consumer culture.