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1 Postwar Uncertainty Mr. Cole Rowland High School

2 Vocabulary textbook pgs. 463-467 disillusionment – to move away from idealism and become bitter lost generation – a group of disillusioned writers after WWI, including Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway expatriates - people who leave their native country to live elsewhere suffrage - the right to vote

3 Revolutions in Western Culture ScienceLiterature Name ________________________________World History – Years of Crisis Textbook pages 463 - 465 PhilosophyPaintingMusic In your opinion, whose contribution has had the most lasting impact? Explain.

4 Technological Advances AutomobilesAirplanesRadioMovies Textbook pages 466-467 What impact did the increased use of automobiles have on the average person.

5 Postwar Uncertainty Opening Activity: Complete the following flow map in your notebook Renaissance Scientific Revolution Enlightenment Political Revolutions Industrial Revolution ImperialismWorld War One1920’s Significance?

6 Postwar Uncertainty Renaissance Scientific Revolution Enlightenment Political Revolutions Industrial Revolution ImperialismWorld War One1920’s Significance?

7 Postwar Uncertainty Revolution in Science Albert Einstein – Theory of Relativity Sigmund Freud – Unconscious Mind

8 Postwar Uncertainty Literature in the 1920’s William Butler Yeats – “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” T.S. Elliot – The Wasteland Franz Kafka – The Trial James Joyce – Stream of Consciousness Gertrude Stein – “the lost generation” F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms

9 Postwar Uncertainty Double Bubble: Compare and contrast romanticism in literature in the 1800’s (264-265) and the “lost generation” literature of the 1920’s (464).

10 Postwar Uncertainty Philosophers react to uncertainties Existentialism – no universal meaning to life

11 Postwar Uncertainty Revolution in the Arts Cubism Expressionism Surrealism

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36 Postwar Uncertainty Changes for Women Suffrage New dress New freedoms New careers

37 A Worldwide Depression

38 Vocabulary - textbook pgs. 470-475 coalition - temporary alliance of several parties to form a majority. renounce - to disown prosperity - success, wealth, favorable conditions reparations - payment required from a defeated nation for damages inflicted during a war inflation - increase in prices resulting from high supply of dollars and low supply of goods surplus - extra

39 speculate - to buy something at a low price hoping to sell it for profit at a higher price tariff - taxes charged by a government on imported or exported goods standard of living - access to necessities and/or comforts isolationism - policy of avoiding political ties to other countries Vocabulary - textbook pgs. 470-475

40 A World Wide Depression No experience of democracy Too many political parties (coalition governments) Use to authoritarian governments Frequent changes in democratic governments

41 A World Wide Depression Germany lacked a democratic tradition Too many political parties Blamed for the first world war Weak Weimar Republic

42 A World Wide Depression German had not increased wartime taxes Printed money Heavy reparation payments German Inflation

43 A World Wide Depression Realistic payment plan 200 million in loans Germany began to recover economically Dawes Plan

44 A World Wide Depression Treaties Hopes for Peace League of Nations Kellogg-Briand Pact Lacarno

45 A World Wide Depression Opening Activity: put the following vocabulary words into a sentence: inflation and reparations.

46 A World Wide Depression Americans were buying less Flawed U.S. Economy Overproduction Uneven Distribution of wealth Rising unemployment Speculation in the stock market

47 A World Wide Depression The Great Depression

48 A World Wide Depression Mass unemployment Businesses failed The depression spread around the world Great Depression High tariffs

49 A World Wide Depression

50 Nationalism and Tariffs

51 Just like dangerous water RF: symbolize(s) ship small ice bergs International TradeEconomic NationalismActions that hurt international trade Just like large ice berg Most effective action to hurt international trade What is the cartoon saying about the effect economic nationalism has on international trade?


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