the 1920s have been characterized as a decade of economic, social and cultural change. analyze the extent to whihc the first world war and consumerism affected united states sociuety during this period

While the world was recovering from ¨the war to end all wars¨ Western society and Western culture went through a radical shift in lifestyle. Due to the economic growth - that ended abruptly in the thirties - and industrial development, consumer demand grew rapidly. At the same time there was a break with tradition and modernism took over followed by the first wave of feminism and the Jazz age. It is not a surprise that after the horrors of the first world war the world was ready - at least the part that could afford it - to embrace anything new and exciting and to obtain consumer goods as a means to obtain happiness.