The
Roaring Twenties
nA brief period of stability, even optimism, emerged in the middle of the 1920s.
nGermany’s new democratic government
promised friendship with its
former enemies.
nThe Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, was signed by a number of nations.
nHowever, internal politics was polarized
by leftists who wanted to emulate
the Communist regime of the
Soviet Union and by rightists who
sought authoritarian government
based on the recovery of national
honor.
