Were the twenties a retreat from Progressiveism or an extension of reform?
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Good question, The war had just ended successfully, and that led to the Roaring Twenties. Not sure what you would call it.
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C. personal freedom. People, especially women felt very liberated after the end of the Edwardian era. Short skirts, short hair, they could smoke in public, drink, and vote. All these things were unheard of before the 1920's.
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I think industrialization is what happens when a country becomes more modern, a side affect of progress etc.
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not sure I understand the question?  I thought Silent Movies were in the 20's?
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Well... one of the key features of Marxist Commnism (referring to German writer Karl Marx who published Communist Manifesto in 1848 to rally Socialists under a Communist banner), social classes were eliminated.  This happened to a lower degree under Lenin and Stalin in 20th cent. USSR
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In the 1950's (in the UK) people were told work hard and save, come the 21st century you'll have better lifestyles. Work less hours, retire early and have loads of spare time to enjoy life and be living in a Sci-Fi type future. People had great expectations.\nWell all that seems have gone pear shaped, as people are working longer hours, expected to retire later and now have very little time to enjoy their lives. \n21st century? More like the 1940's. And I can't see the future getting any better.\nSorry to be a sourpuss.
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sports thrived in the 20's. Boxing was big and Baseball was big. I believe thats why they called that decade the ragin twenties
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There was a rise in moral "cleansing" (think Radical Right) because of the Roaring 20s.  People felt that it was their puritanical duty to prevent sin during this newly (but not quite revolutional) taboo era.\n\nAlso, the government wasn't taxing alcohol like the last guy said and it was brought back into circulation once they figured out how to do so.
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They almost did back in the thirties. It was good old F.D.R. and the new deal that saved America from the Bolsheviks.
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when we became our own country things just gradually changed...i doubt it was on purpose but it was more a "cultural diffusion" type senerio
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1898-1904: Conservative\n1904-1922: Liberal\n1922-1925: Independent (elected in 1924 as a "constitutional anti-socialist")\n1925-1955: Conservative\n1955: Retired from politics\n1965: Died
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go on this link:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930
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I think it's because Franklin D. Roosevelt was trying to focus more on the domestic problems (since it was right after the Great Depression) and at that point i'm pretty sure the US was taking an Isolationist standpoint in world affairs, which means that they weren't getting involved in anything overseas (pretty much the opposite of today).\n\nGood luck, hope this helps?
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The industrial revolution was under way.  \n\nConsiderable numbers of people had moved into urban areas (More than half the population was urban)\n\nGreat Britain was at war with France.
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Most of human history suffered the same, until the enlightenment. Steady growth in freedom from that point on till the peak in capitalism ~100 years ago is the foundation of healthy economies. The ideas of the enlightenment are lost on the countries above (and fading here too).
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If you are referring to Enlightenment as a movement that emerged in Europe... in the present day discourses... postmodernism seems to be up in arms against the notion of this universal Euro-centric 'enlightenment'.  The present day social theorists see Enlightenment as part of the European colonizing mission where a certain kind of rationality with European experience as a role model was imposed on the rest of the world which in turn had nothing to offer but only to catch up with the West and modernize.\n\nPersonally, i am weary of going overboard with this present day trend, which is letting all kinds of weird irrational locally dominating ideas to assert themselves against modernity.  Various fundamentalist religious movements are questioning the regime of reason by suggesting that one truth is equal to the other so we will follow ours whatever the consequences!  Evolution and creationism are projected as equal.  The boundary between myth and science is being collapsed.  There is a great danger in this tendency, however exciting it may appear, for the end of reason means proliferation of multitudes of lunacy and parochialisms which are hard to manage...   More on request!
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political conservatism in the early nineteen hundreds had just embraced a radical change of political theory, one nation conservatism, this was the idea that the nation that is the UK was split in to two nations rich poor, and the nobility had an obligation to look after the poor, this was the idea of noblesse oblige or paternalism. \nLiberalism on the other hand was being to embrace the full diversity of what its ideas would become, the political theory of modern liberalism was newly formulated and governed that no longer would the drunk in the gutter deserve all that he got, more the idea that the community had a place in society and that place was to provide the safety net for which would become the welfare state.\ninconclusion conservative thinkers were coming to the idea that the rich were to look after the poor, the liberals were embracing the idea of taxation to support the entirety and in comparison to each other they both began a time of more compassionate caring politics.