1. In Between Wars:

2. Arts, Sciences, and Technology:
The end of WWI led to a drastic change in the ways people perceived the world. Many, disillusioned by the war, found solace in various different forms of art, music, technology, and science.

3. Dada Movement: Group of intellectuals and artisans
Believed intellectual conformity, nationalism, and colonial interests led to WWI
Art made to get a reaction out of those who saw it

4. Other form of art: Surrealism- cultural movement during 1920s
Protest against typical
art forms/horrors of
WWI
Dream-like quality in
paintings

10. Draw it out:
Imagine you are a French artist who spent time on the Western Front during WWI
You are disillusioned by the horrors of trench warfare and need express your antiwar sentiment
Using surrealism as your model, create a poster that depicts your experience during the war

11. Music: Jazz Music Influential in “Roaring Twenties”
Scared the older generation

12. Science: Discovery of vitamins C, E Insulin Penicillin Innovations in
immunizations

13. Technology/Inventions:
Electric irons
Refrigerators
Air conditioning
Vacuums
Frozen food
Primitive TVs

14. Albert Einstein: German-born genius
Published over 300 scientific works
Theory of Relativity was first major theory since Newton
Changed people’s view on the way people viewed speed, time, and place

15. Philosophy:
Friedrich Nietzsche- reason, democracy and progress stifled people’s creativity
Existentialism- each person creates their own meaning to life

16. Psychology: Sigmund Freud Believed that human mind is irrational and
driven by subconscious
thoughts
Personality developed from childhood experience
Ideas influenced peoples’ belief in reason

17. What are your Defense Mechanisms?
Freud proposed the theory that humans naturally respond to different stressful situations by putting up defense mechanisms to defend our feelings
Defenses are like circuit breakers. They will shut off a thought or sensation when the intensity gets too much to handle
In groups, look at the various types of mechanisms and write down which ones you have experienced