Daily life

After the First World War, rising prices hit the population's living standards dramatically. The crisis reached its height with the galloping inflation of 1922. In 1929 the start of global depression led to impoverishment of large sections of the population.
Technical innovations transformed everyday life: what had once applied to bicycles now applied to automobiles. Even in public transport motorcars were competing with rail despite poor road surfaces. The radio was an entirely new medium whose significance was soon recognised. Increasingly, electricity was installed in private homes.