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POST WAR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES

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1 Lesson Essential Question What changes did Western society and culture experience after WW I?

2 POST WAR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES
Roaring 20s time of freedom and changing values Jazz- new form of music Flappers- new attitude liberated woman Technology changed household chores for women Women working!

3 Attempts in US to stop changes Prohibition led to organized crime and speakeasies

4 Literature reflected disgust with war
Literature reflected disgust with war. War moral breakdown of civilized western nations. Harlem renaissance occurs in US AA writers and artists explored idea of cultural pride.

5 READING: CARS FOR THE PEEPS.

6 Science exploded: Marie Curie- discovers how charged particles function Albert Einstein- space and time ideas Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.

7 Sigmund Freud studies how mind works through psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud studies how mind works through psychoanalysis. Western artists: Abstract art ideas of Vasily Kandinsky Dada- ideas in surrealist art to portray working of unconscious mind.

8 Bauhaus buildings based on form and function with little ornamentation.


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