Postwar Uncertainty

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Postwar Uncertainty

• Disillusionment and Progress

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Question 1

• The postwar period is one of loss and uncertainty
  but also one of invention, creativity, and new
  ideas.
• How did changes in science and art challenge
  deeply held beliefs?

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Changes in Science

• Albert Einstein
• The Absent-minded Professor
• Offers radically new ideas in field of physics
• Theory of Relativity
• Idea that space and time are not constant
• Makes the world seem more uncertain than before
• Freudian Psychology
• Sigmund Freud
• Austrian doctor with new ideas about the mind
• Claims that human behavior is not based on
  reason
• Id, ego, super-ego

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Changes in the Arts

• Futurists
• Futurism. Early 20th-century artistic movement
  that centred in Italy and emphasized the
  dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine
  and the vitality, change, and restlessness of
  modern life in general. The most significant
  results of the movement were in the visual arts
  and poetry.

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Modern concerns
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Cubism transforms shapes into geometric forms
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Surrealists
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and beyond
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Literature

• Suffering caused by WWI leads many to doubt old
  beliefs
• Existentialists
• Man has free will
• Life is a series of choices creating stress
• Few decisions are without any consequences
• Some things are irrational or absurd, without
  explanation
• If one makes a decision he or she must follow
  through
• Fredrich Nietchze
• http//www.iep.utm.edu/n/nihilism.htmH3
• The Lost Generation
• F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Question 2

• How do Jazz and the womens movement demonstrate
  the individualism of the time?

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Jazz

• Individual performance
• New Orleans
• Louis Armstrong
• St. Louis
• New York
• Duke Ellington
• Chicago

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Question 3

• How did changes in technology alter daily life?
• The Automobile
• The Airplane
• The Radio
• The Movies

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Automobile Travel
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A Worldwide Depression

• Chapter 15, section 2

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Postwar Economy

• Germany
• United States
• Europe

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Stock Market Fails

• What is the stock market?
• Worksheets on buying stocks
• Simulation

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Depression

• Library of Congress
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