1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or primarily in North America and in Australia as the "Roaring Twenties" . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. See 1920s Berlin. 1920s - Events and trends. Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s, especially in the United States. This due to the fact both d ...

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Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s,especially in the United States. This due to the fact both decades were considered very economically prosperous times, and a prosperity which lasted throughout almost the entire decade following a tremendous event at the closing of the previous decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the late 1910s, and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s). In the United States, this decad ...

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Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's administration created the policies that formed the backbone of India's social and economic development, national defense and position in world affairs for decades. Although Nehru's policies were mostly imitation of other coutries', instead of realization of India's uniqueness. Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy. Nehru was fascinated by the Soviet Union's Piatiletka or 5-year plans. But he wrote after a visit there in the 1920s that 'the human costs are unpayable'. A belie ...

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Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's administration created the policies that formed the backbone of India's social and economic development, national defense and position in world affairs for over four decades. Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy. Nehru was fascinated by the Soviet Union's Piatiletka or 5-year plans. But he wrote after a visit there in the 1920s that 'the human costs are unpayable'. A believer in the 'mixed economy' of Harold Laski and influenced by the Fabian Society, Nehru wished the economy of India to be partially capitalist, but with the state occupying a large role, especi ...

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Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru - Early life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Gandhi and the 1920s, Jawaharlal Nehru - Political Attitudes, Jawaharlal Nehru - Rise to Leadership, Jawaharlal Nehru - Personal Life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Socialism and Quit India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Congress Presidency, Jawaharlal Nehru - Partition and Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952 With Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Personal Life of the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru's policies, Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Foreign Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Home Front, Jawaharlal Nehru - Legacy, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Nehru Family in Indian Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru - Books Quotes and Trivia, Jawaharlal Nehru - See Also

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Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's administration created the policies that formed the backbone of India's social and economic development, national defense and position in world affairs for decades. Although Nehru's policies were mostly imitation of other coutries', instead of realization of India's uniqueness. Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy. Nehru was fascinated by the Soviet Union's Piatiletka or 5-year plans. But he wrote after a visit there in the 1920s that 'the human costs are unpayable'. A belie ...

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Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru - Gandhi and the 1920s, Jawaharlal Nehru - Political Attitudes, Jawaharlal Nehru - Rise to Leadership, Jawaharlal Nehru - Personal Life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Socialism and Quit India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Congress Presidency, Jawaharlal Nehru - Partition and Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952 With Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Personal Life of the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru's policies, Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Foreign Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Home Front, Jawaharlal Nehru - Legacy, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Nehru Family in Indian Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru - Books Quotes and Trivia, Jawaharlal Nehru - See Also

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Through the 1920s, Nehru was increasingly active in political affairs, but his personal life also underwent significant changes. His father Motilal died in 1931, leaving him at the head of the Nehru household, whose life had become entirely political. His three sisters had joined the Congress women's wing, and Kamala Nehru was working on social causes. His daughter too, had formed the Vanara Sena. The late 1920s saw his marriage revitalized, and Kamala and he grew closer as a couple. From prison Nehru would write letters to his young daughter, later publishe ...

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Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru - Early life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Gandhi and the 1920s, Jawaharlal Nehru - Political Attitudes, Jawaharlal Nehru - Rise to Leadership, Jawaharlal Nehru - Personal Life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Socialism and Quit India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Congress Presidency, Jawaharlal Nehru - Partition and Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952 With Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Personal Life of the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru's policies, Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Foreign Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Home Front, Jawaharlal Nehru - Legacy, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Nehru Family in Indian Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru - Books Quotes and Trivia, Jawaharlal Nehru - See Also

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Jawaharlal Nehru (जवाहरलाल नेहरू, Javāharlāl Nehrū) (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964), also called Pandit ('Scholar, Teacher') Nehru, was one of the most important leaders of the Indian Independence Movement and the Indian National Congress, and became the first Prime Minister of India when India won its independence on August 15, 1947. Nehru's 17 years as Prime Minister are the most influential of any national leader in the post-independence history of India. An adherent of sociali ...

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Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952 With Sardar Patel
Jawaharlal Nehru - The Personal Life of the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru's policies
Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy Jawaharlal Nehru - Foreign Policy Jawaharlal Nehru - Home Front
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1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1930s - Events and trends. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. In Australia, this decade was known as the Dirty Thirties. In both Central Europe and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism,dominated as the solution, the first two adopting war-oriented economic policies and the l ...

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1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940s - Events and trends. The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divided in two halves: The first half of the decade was dominated by World War II, the widest and most destructive armed conflict in history. So consequential was this event and its brutal aftermath that it laid the foundation ...

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Through the 1920s, Nehru was increasingly active in political affairs, but his personal life also underwent significant changes. His father Motilal died in 1931, leaving him at the head of the Nehru household, whose life had become entirely political. His three sisters had joined the Congress women's wing, and Kamala Nehru was working on social causes. His daughter too, had formed the Vanara Sena. The late 1920s saw his marriage revitalized, and Kamala and he grew closer as a couple. From prison Nehru would write letters to his young daughter, later publishe ...

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Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru - Gandhi and the 1920s, Jawaharlal Nehru - Political Attitudes, Jawaharlal Nehru - Rise to Leadership, Jawaharlal Nehru - Personal Life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Socialism and Quit India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Congress Presidency, Jawaharlal Nehru - Partition and Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952 With Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Personal Life of the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru's policies, Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Foreign Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Home Front, Jawaharlal Nehru - Legacy, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Nehru Family in Indian Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru - Books Quotes and Trivia, Jawaharlal Nehru - See Also

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Weimar Republic refers to the years (1919-1933) in German history. Politically and economically, the nation struggled with the terms and reparations imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1918) that ended World War I, and endured punishing levels of inflation. 1920s Berlin was at the hectic center of the Weimar Culture. The fourteen years of the Weimar were also marked by explosive intellectual productivity. German artists made significant cultural contributions in the fields of literature, art, architecture, music, dance, drama, and the new medium of the motion picture. Political theorist Ernst Bloc ...

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The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (German Weimarer Republik, IPA: [ˈvaɪ̯marər repuˈbliːk]). It is named after the city of Weimar where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after the German Monarchy and German Empire were abolished following the nation's defeat in World War I. This first attempt to establish a liberal democracy in Germany happened during a time of civil conflict, and failed with t ...

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Weimar Republic - Loss of credibility for the Republic Weimar Republic - Franz von Papen calls for elections Weimar Republic - November and 'Socialist General' Schleicher
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Through the 1920s, Nehru was increasingly active in political affairs, but his personal life also underwent significant changes. His father Motilal died in 1931, leaving him at the head of the Nehru household, whose life had become entirely political. His three sisters had joined the Congress women's wing, and Kamala Nehru was working on social causes. His daughter Indira helped formed the Vanara Sena. The late 1920s saw his marriage revitalized, and Kamala and he grew closer as a couple. From prison Nehru would write letters to his young daughter, later publishe ...

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Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru - Gandhi and the 1920s, Jawaharlal Nehru - Political Attitudes, Jawaharlal Nehru - Rise to Leadership, Jawaharlal Nehru - Personal Life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Socialism and Quit India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Congress Presidency, Jawaharlal Nehru - Partition and Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Personal Life of the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru's policies, Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Foreign Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Home Front, Jawaharlal Nehru - Legacy, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Nehru Family in Indian Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru - Books Quotes and Trivia

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Jawaharlal Nehru served as India's Prime Minister from August 15, 1947, to May 27, 1964 - the day he died. ...

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Nehru was elected again to the Congress Presidency in 1936, and again in 1937. In his famous speech to the session in Lucknow in 1936, he pushed the passage of the Avadi Resolution which committed the Congress to socialism as the basis of the future agenda of a free India's government. But the effort was strongly criticized by major Congress leaders, including Gandhi and Sardar Patel. Nehru transformed his position to commit that the resolution did not in fact bind Congress to socialism, and that the Congress Party's main goal was ind ...

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Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru - Gandhi and the 1920s, Jawaharlal Nehru - Political Attitudes, Jawaharlal Nehru - Rise to Leadership, Jawaharlal Nehru - Personal Life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Socialism and Quit India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Congress Presidency, Jawaharlal Nehru - Partition and Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Personal Life of the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru's policies, Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Foreign Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Home Front, Jawaharlal Nehru - Legacy, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Nehru Family in Indian Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru - Books Quotes and Trivia

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Jawaharlal Nehru served as India's Prime Minister from August 15, 1947, to May 27, 1964 - the day he died. His ideals, vision and leadership would shape the policies that would define India's economic, social and political development for over four decades. Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952 With Sardar Patel. Prime Minister Nehru headed a Cabinet that included leaders from across the political spectrum like Syama Prasad Mookerjee and B.R. Ambedkar. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was the Deputy Prime Minister of In ...

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Upon his release from prison in 1924, Gandhi succeeded in re-uniting the Congress Party and increasing discipline of Congressmen by expanding activities for social reform and the alleviation of India's poor. With the Bardoli Satyagraha of 1928, led by the rising nationalist leader Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Congress was back in the business of revolution. In 1928-29, the Congress's annual session under President Motilal Nehru considered the next step. Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose backed a call for full political independence, whil ...

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Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru - Early life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Gandhi and the 1920s, Jawaharlal Nehru - Political Attitudes, Jawaharlal Nehru - Rise to Leadership, Jawaharlal Nehru - Personal Life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Socialism and Quit India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Congress Presidency, Jawaharlal Nehru - Partition and Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952 With Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Personal Life of the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru's policies, Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Foreign Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Home Front, Jawaharlal Nehru - Legacy, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Nehru Family in Indian Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru - Books Quotes and Trivia, Jawaharlal Nehru - See Also

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Nehru was elected again to the Congress Presidency in 1936, and again in 1937. In his famous speech to the session in Lucknow in 1936, he pushed the passage of the Avadi Resolution which committed the Congress to socialism as the basis of the future agenda of a free India's government. But the effort was strongly criticized by major Congress leaders, including Gandhi and Sardar Patel. Nehru transformed his position to commit that the resolution did not in fact bind Congress to socialism, and that the Congress Party's main goal was ind ...

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Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru - Early life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Gandhi and the 1920s, Jawaharlal Nehru - Political Attitudes, Jawaharlal Nehru - Rise to Leadership, Jawaharlal Nehru - Personal Life, Jawaharlal Nehru - Socialism and Quit India, Jawaharlal Nehru - Congress Presidency, Jawaharlal Nehru - Partition and Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru - Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru - 1947 to 1952 With Sardar Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Personal Life of the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru - Nehru's policies, Jawaharlal Nehru - Economic policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Foreign Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru - Home Front, Jawaharlal Nehru - Legacy, Jawaharlal Nehru - The Nehru Family in Indian Politics, Jawaharlal Nehru - Books Quotes and Trivia, Jawaharlal Nehru - See Also

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