Culture of the 1920sThe Roaring Twenties began in North America and spread to Europe as the effects of World War I subsided. In Europe, the years following the First World War (1919-1923) were marked by a deep recession. Europe has spent these years rebuilding and dealing with the vast human cost of the conflict. Unlike what happened in the aftermath of World War II, the United States did little to try to rebuild Europe. Instead, it adopted an increasingly isolationist stance (Answers, 2006). In Canada, a significant economic transformation accelerated as Britain was entirely supplanted by the United States as Canada's principal economic partner. By the middle of the decade, economic development began to accelerate in Europe and the Roaring Twenties broke out in Germany, Britain and France, where the second half of that decade was referred to as the "Roaring Twenties". In France and Canada, they are also called the “roaring twenties” (Answers, 2006). The spirit of the Roaring Twenties is marked by a general feeling of discontinuity associated with modernity and a break with traditions. There was a sense that a new and different era was approaching. Everything seemed achievable thanks to modern technology; the limits that ecology and sustainability pose to economic and technological growth were still unknown. Technologies such as trains, cars, and mass communications by radio and telephone spread the idea of ​​modernity to much of the population. Formal decorative flourishes were abandoned in favor of practicality, in architecture as in everyday life. At the same time, fun, pleasure and lightness were cultivated in jazz and dance, in defiance of the horrors of the First World War, still present in people's minds. The period is often calle...... middle of paper...... January 20, 2007Harlem Renaissance. (2006). The History Channel website. Retrieved January 20, 2007 from http://www.history.comHartman, J., (1999) Advertisements of the 1920s. Duke University Rare Books, Manuscripts and Special Collections Library. Retrieved January 20, 2007 http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/Infrastructure. (2006). History Channel website. Retrieved January 20, 2007 from http://www.history.comThe Roaring Twenties. (2006). History Channel website. Retrieved January 20, 2007 from http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (2006). Roaring Twenties. Retrieved January 20, 2007, from http://www.wikipedia.comWomen's Rights Movement in the United States: Timeline. (2007) Pearson Education, published as Infoplease. Retrieved January 21, 2007 from http://www.infoplease.com