AP EURO NOTES
AP Euro Notes Sec 26-2 pp. 807-816 Nalani Story The Democratic States Woodrow Wilson proclaimed that WWI=been fought to make world safe for democracy 1919, there seemed to be some justification for this claim 4 major Euro states & a host of minor ones had functioning political democracies In a # of nations, universal male suffrage=replaced by universal suffrage as male politicians rewarded women for their contributions to WWI by granting the right to vote (except in Italy, France, & Spain) Women also began to enter political life as deputies to parliamentary bodies. In new German repub almost 10% of deputies elected to Reichstag in 1919=women # dropped to 6% by 1926 Great Britain After WWI GB went through a period of painful readjustment and serious economic difficulties