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... industry prosperity. For a decade after the war, Americans looked for leaderships to Wall Street rather than to the White House. They were complacent, unprecedented prosperous as a nation and little interested in what transpired outside the three-mile limit it came to rumrunners. In their attitudes the American people were experiencing the disillusionment and moral fatigue of the postwar era. The 1920’s have been described as an era of “tremendous trivia”-danced marathons, flagpole sitting, “red hot mamas,’ speak-easies, broadways ticker-tape parades for celebrities like Lindbergh, the Charleston, and a national craze for speculating in stocks, bonds, and Florida real estate. These were the elements in the Wasteland age in the United States. To many its salient features were national smugness and isolationism in international affairs, crass materialism in business, and vulgarity and bad taste in daily life.
DEMOCRACTIC STRUGGLE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES IN THE POST WORLD WAR I
This is a historico-political essay which chronicles the struggles of various countries in Europe and Latin America to establish democracy as the ruling system of governance.
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| language |  | english |
| wordcount |  | 3718 (cca 10 pages) |
| contextual quality |  | N/A |
| language level |  | N/A |
| price |  | free |
| sources |  | 4 |
Table of contents
Introduction 1
Unstable Coalition Governments in France 1
Evolutionary Socialism Gains Support in Great Britain 2
The British Commonwealth of Nation 3
Democracy in Southern Europe 4
Democracy in Other Small European Nations 5
Status of Democracy in Spain and Portugal 6
Growth of Democratic Ideals in Latin America 7
Era of Normalcy and Big Business in the United States 7
Sources 8
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DEMOCRACTIC STRUGGLE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES IN THE POST WORLD WAR I Introduction “In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. The reaction from the exertions the fears and the suffering of the past five years is at its height. Our power of feeling or caring beyond the immediate questions of our own material wellbeing is temporarily eclipsed. The greatest events outside our own direct experience and the most dreadful anticipations cannot move us. We have been moved already beyond endurance, and need rest…” Thus write the famed English economist John Maynard Keynes; his mood of apathy, disillusionment, and despair was share by many people in the west. The postwar period witnessed an inevitable reaction against wartime controls. In the English-speaking democracies, which were the chief bar tons of laissez0faire economics, governmental controls were thrown off with all possible speed. The slogan “back to normalcy” in the United States indicated a return to prewar economic habits and creeds. And halted throughout most of the democratic capitalist world were ...... industry prosperity. For a decade after the war, Americans looked for leaderships to Wall Street rather than to the White House. They were complacent, unprecedented prosperous as a nation and little interested in what transpired outside the three-mile limit it came to rumrunners. In their attitudes the American people were experiencing the disillusionment and moral fatigue of the postwar era. The 1920’s have been described as an era of “tremendous trivia”-danced marathons, flagpole sitting, “red hot mamas,’ speak-easies, broadways ticker-tape parades for celebrities like Lindbergh, the Charleston, and a national craze for speculating in stocks, bonds, and Florida real estate. These were the elements in the Wasteland age in the United States. To many its salient features were national smugness and isolationism in international affairs, crass materialism in business, and vulgarity and bad taste in daily life.
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