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End of World War one
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R.T characteristics
Workers could enjoy leisure activities thanks to an eight-hour working day. Cinemas, music halls, and clubs thrived thanks to abundant nightlife. Women were freer than before (driving, smoking, going out at night...) A movement towards consumerism and new payment methods led to the emergence of department stores. -
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ROARING TWENTIES
A decade of prosperity and dissipation to forget the horrors of the war. -
Dawes Plan
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Dawes plan turns into the Young plan.
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Wall Street Crash
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930s
Great Depression, worldwide economic downturn. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world -
Roosevelt introduces his New Deal
