In the 1920s for the first time youth became a social group distinct from all others, with their own value, their own rules and their own aspiration
Rising from the ruins of WWI, fated to end in the looming shadows of the Great Depression and then of WWII, the 1920s have that vitality that is not totally explainable. That X-factor that made them a time of excitement even in among terrible events.
In many respect, the 1920s was the decade of the woman. The perception of women and what they could and should do changed in the mind of both men and women.
Suffrage movements were old history in the 1920s, when the women of a few nations finally won their right to wote. But the fight had started in the 1800s
The experience of WWI and the terrible loss of lives caused a resurgence in spiritism. Everyone wanted to contact their loved ones lost on the battlefields
The Twenties were a time of many discoveries and inventions. New production processes became common, which allowed to lower the prices for the mass market
Sanitary advancement was astounding in the 1920s . Discoveries made in that decade and others coming from the 1800s, changed attitudes towards clealiness.
People had never had problems to cross borders. Before WWI, when a person wanted to go from one country to another, they simply did. There was no need for any documents. Only very few people actually used passports. But WWI closed all borders. When passports became of common use, the question fo the refugee arose.
In most countries in the 1920s, the intercourse between people of the same sex was against the law. Still, slowly,this community started to gain recognition
Prohibition characterised American history for thirteen year, influencing life, social mores and probably the attitude of people towarda the law
Orientalism is the fascination of the Western World for the Asia and a cultural appreciation that started in the Napoleonic times and never really faded
That the idea of nationalism goes back to the Enlightenment and the rise of the national states, when the ideas of people and of nation started to form.