The main reason why the Roman government began the "bread and circuses" program is because the Roman Republic had just transformed into an empire and they didn't want any revolts from the populous, so they wanted to keep everyone happy and entertained.
Germany had to repay many loans to the United States.
Thorstein Bunde Veblen thoughts on “typical ways of thinking” and civilization, in general, are found in his sociological theory which suggests that all communities are organized in a manner that goods, tangible and intangible, symbolic and material are distributed. He views such distribution as unequal and necessarily involves power. Status groups make up the social order while the classes make up the economic order and parties the political order. Each order is affected or affects the other.
The fourteen points were too idealistic and not all countries like his policies of national self determination and world disarmament, and some countries also refused to join the league of nations such as Russia as they were not invited to join
