Chapter 28 The Rise of Totalitarianism Section 1 Postwar Social Changes
Changes in Society after WWI Roaring 1920’s = new technologies: imp. Telephones, automobiles, media; radio and motion pic. New sounds of JAZZ – Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington Europe = recovering Am = thriving
…..More Changes After war, people = rebellious – reject Victorian Age New Jazz Age youth Liberated woman – flapper – 1st Am then world New, exciting freedom Small minority
Women’s lives Women during WWI worked helping them win political freedoms. After the war the quit. Domestic life made easier w/ inventions: vacuum cleaners, washing machines, canned foods. Women felt “emancipated” Women became professional golfers, tennis players, swimmers, pilots. Most professions still held by men
Prohibition!!! Not everyone embraced carefree Jazz Age Prohibition activists worked for 90 years 18th Amendment-21st Amendment 1919-1933 Prohibition led to violence, crime, speakeasies
Christian fundamentalism A religious movement in 1900’s - People believed events in the Bible = literally true. Led to famous “Monkey Trial” John T. Scopes, bio teacher, taught evolution
New literature All Quiet On The Western Front – Erich Remarque Exposed horrors or WWI American novelists: Ernest Hemmingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Literature of the inner mind: Mrs. Dalloway Finnegans Wake
Harlem Renaissance During 1920’s Af. Am in New York – Harlem – home to many Af. Am’s Af Am literature, art, music flourished Langston Hughes Claude McKay
Scientific Theories Marie Curie – Polish born French scientist- studied radioactivity Albert Einstein – German born physicist – argued that measurements of time and space were not absolute. Enrico Fermi – Italian physicist discovered splitting atoms in two. Worked w/ J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller on the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb
…..More science Alexander Fleming – discovered nontoxic mold that kills bacteria “penicillin” to treat infections
Mind Games Sigmund Freud – pioneered psychoanalysis* the method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders.
Modern Art Artwork = abstract – only lines, colors, shapes Dada movement inspired surrealism – rejected rational thought.
Looking Ahead Post WWI, most people = stunned and traumatized They sought to change, thus the turbulent 1920’s in hopes to revive. They would face a new crisis – an economic one – which would spark new conflicts.