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    After World War 1, many countries adopted universal suffrage and social reforms. Women gained the right to vote in Britain in 1928, the US in 1920, Germany and new European states in 1919, and Russia in 1917. Working hours were limited and insurance programs for workers were established, like France's 1930 act insuring 10 million. While democracy advanced, Italy's ended abruptly under Mussolini's fascist regime.

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    After World War 1, many countries adopted universal suffrage and social reforms. Women gained the right to vote in Britain in 1928, the US in 1920, Germany and new European states in 1919, and Russia in 1917. Working hours were limited and insurance programs for workers were established, like France's 1930 act insuring 10 million. While democracy advanced, Italy's ended abruptly under Mussolini's fascist regime.

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    L.O. #1 The advance of democracy through suffrage and social legislation after WWI.

    Written constitutions and universal suffrage were adopted after WWI. In Great Britain, women were able to vote equally with men by 1928. In the United States, the 19 th amendment to the Constitution gave American women the right to vote in all elections. Germany, as well as most of the new states of Europe (like Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia) allowed women to vote in 1919. Equal voting for men and women was established in the Soviet Union after the revolution in 1917. After WWI, social legislation was also enacted. Eight-hour legal working day became common. Medical and life insurance, as well as other insurance programs against accidents were adopted. In France, the workmens insurance act of 1930 insured about 10 million workers. Welfare state was becoming more firmly established. Since 1861, Italy had been a parliamentary state and had introduced a democratic male suffrage in the elections of 1913. Italian democracy abruptly ended when Benito Mussolini ended Italian parliamentary government and founded his Fascist regime.

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