The Twenties

摘要

Adecade arriving off the back of the most brutal and bloodiest of World Wars known in modern history, heralding a new attitude to life and how it should be lived, the nineteen twenties certainly earned its moniker of the Roaring Twenties. After the devastation and gargantuan loss of life caused by the First World War, the 1920s ushered in a new Modernism and a belief in a bright new future in all aspects of life and work. In art, commerce, banking and technology, cinema and Jazz, there was a desire to break with the traditions and restrictions of the past and embrace a new and daring decade. The nineteen twenties saw a period of economic growth and relatively widespread prosperity among the developed nations from the U.S.A to Europe and Australia as construction projects and post war development and rebuilding turned economies around from wartime austerity to peacetime growth. The advancement in technologies such as radio and mass production of goods especially in the automotive industry enabled this economic resurgence. Prior to World War One a motor car was without doubt a luxury item, but by 1927 when the Ford Motor Company ceased production of the ubiquitous Model T, they had sold fifteen million of them, obviously not all in the nineteen twenties but you can see the numbers of car owners multiplying rapidly.