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My name is Elizabeth Blossom. I am a 22 year old college student and stay at home mom of a soon to be 8 month old little girl who is the light of my life. I am also a volunteer firefighter for my local Fire Department.

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The Great Depression--

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Everything is relevant, no distractions.

Article is neutral. It touches everything that happened during the great depression all over the world and does not focus on one country.

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Interwar Period

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Roaring Twenties
The "Roaring Twenties" highlighted novel and highly visible social and cultural trends and innovations. These trends, made possible by sustained economic prosperity, were most visible in major cities like New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin and London. The Jazz Age began and Art Deco peaked. For women, knee-length skirts and dresses became socially acceptable, as did bobbed hair with a marcel wave. The women who pioneered these trends were frequently referred to as flappers. Not all was new: “normalcy” returned to politics in the wake of hyper-emotional wartime passions in the United States, France, and Germany. The leftist revolutions in Finland, Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Spain were defeated by conservatives, but succeeded in Russia, which became the base for Soviet Communism. In Italy the fascists came to power under Mussolini after threatening a march on Rome.

Most independent countries enacted women's suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917 (though individual Provinces held out longer), Britain in 1918, and the United States in 1920. There were a few major countries that held out until after the Second World War (such as France, Switzerland and Portugal). Leslie Hume argues:


 * The women's contribution to the war effort combined with failures of the previous systems' of Government made it more difficult than hitherto to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women's participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women's entry into the public arena.

In Europe, according to Derek Aldcroft and Steven Morewood, "Nearly all countries registered some economic progress in the 1920s and most of them managed to regain or surpass their pre-war income and production levels by the end of the decade." The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Greece did especially well, while Eastern Europe did poorly. In advanced economies the prosperity reached middle class households and many in the working class. with radio, automobiles, telephones, and electric lighting and appliances. There was unprecedented industrial growth, accelerated consumer demand and aspirations, and significant changes in lifestyle and culture. The media began to focus on celebrities, especially sports heroes and movie stars. Major cities built large sports stadiums for the fans, in addition to palatial cinemas. The mechanization of agriculture continued apace, producing on expansion of output that lowered prices, and made many farm workers redundant. Often they moved to nearby industrial towns and cities.

In Latin America there were economical struggles. “Although the First World War effectively had removed the major European powers as competitors of the United States for influence in isthmian affairs, Washington (as in the U.S. government) did not enjoy a free hand in Central America during the 1920s.”   Xavier Tafunell stated, “Since domestic production of machinery was extremely limited during this period, the data offer the opportunity to study Latin American machinery expenditures during the height of the first globalization and learn a great deal about many smaller countries that have not been studied in depth before.” It wasn't until later on when a study was done to see the economical struggle that Latin America faced. “In the 1950s and in the early 1960s, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) undertook a series of studies of the process of physical capital accumulation and its determining factors for some countries after 1925. Andre Hofman developed estimates of capital accumulation and examined its role in economic growth for six economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela starting around 1900. While these six countries have received a great deal of attention, we know very little about the experiences in the other Latin American countries.”