Example sentences of "follow the first [noun sg] war " in BNC.

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1 But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity .
2 During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War .
3 Fascism was a product of the deep-rooted social and economic crisis which developed in Europe following the First World War ; a period which saw high unemployment , inflation and social instability .
4 By the time of the Treaty of Vienna and the Concert of Europe , such a system had become formalized , and the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War brought in many more participants ( and took power to create new States , like Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia ) .
5 First of all , the discipline originated in two countries which were essentially satisfied powers following the First World War .
6 Contemporary idealism , however , dates from the period following the First World War when , partly as a reaction to the horrors of the war , it briefly achieved prominence as an approach to global politics , influencing academics and politicians .
7 The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s .
8 None the less , important foundations were being laid in the period immediately following the First World War .
9 Most importantly , this was almost entirely the result of immigration , first from the European countries and , following the First World War , from southern USA .
10 The history unfolds with the full scale introduction of motor vehicles following the First World War and the gradual take over of all delivery services .
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