BETWEEN THE WARS

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BETWEEN THE WARS

• 1919-1939

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Concepts

• New women
• Keynesian Economics
• Supply-side Economics
• AKA trickle-down theory

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Essential Questions

• Identify the emerging movements in art, physics,
  literature, economics and architecture.
• Be sure to include terms, people, reasons for
  changes in your answer VERNACULAR!
• How has Einstein influenced the modern world?

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Postwar Pessimism

• Lost Generation gt expatriates disillusioned
  with materialism of the 1920s
• Barth gt Resurgence of religious fundamentalism
• Science democracy lose ground
• Jose Ortega y Gasset
• Keynes
• Promoted rule of the elite

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Lost Generation
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Barth Fundamentalism
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Feminism
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• John Maynard Keynes a biographical note
• John Maynard Keynes (pronounced "Canes") was
  one the most important figures in the history of
  economics. He revolutionized the subject with his
  classic study, The General Theory of Employment,
  Interest and Money (1936). This is generally
  regarded as one of the most influential social
  science treatises of the twentieth century. It
  quickly and permanently changed the way the world
  looked at the economy and the role of government
  in society.

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Revolution in Physics

• Albert Einstein
• Theory of general relativity
• Space time relevancy

• Heisenberg
• Uncertainty Principle
• Inability to measure position velocity
  simultaneously
• probability theory

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Einstein
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Revolution in Psychology

• Sigmund Freud gt psychoanalytic theory
• Basis for modern psychiatry
• Conflict b/w conscious unconscious
• Repressive mechanisms

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Modern Painting Architecture

• Architecture
• International style
• Gropius gt functionalism
• Mies gt steel glass
• Frank Lloyd Wright

• Modernism
• Disdain for realism

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Modern Architecture
Gropius
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
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Frank Lloyd Wright
The Robie House
The Guggenheim
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Falling Water
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Enduring Question

• Why have all these changes taken place at this
  point in history? cause effect
• Be sure to address each item see first essential
  question comprehensively.