UNIT 5 THE INTERWAR PERIOD
The inter-war years were marked by important economic and political developments.
During the 1920s Europe and the United States enjoyed a period of economic prosperity often refereed to as the Roaring Twenties. However, this changed after 1929, when a severe economic crisis known as the Great Depression began.
In political terms, the countries which had participated in the First World War envolved in two different directions. Countries such as Great Britain, France and the United States continued to be democracies.
Hoever, in other countries authoritarian regimes were stablished. In the cases of the Soviet Union and Germany, these became totalitarian regimes.
Art reflected the political and economic situation of the interwar period. It was also often used propaganda by non-democratic regimes.
- Totalitarian regimes: fascism
- Italian fascism
- Nazism in Germany
