1. Post-War Uncertainty

2. Inter-War Period
Standard: Be able to identify the major political and economic factors that shaped world societies between World War I and World War II.
Essential Question: What were the major political and economic factors that shaped world societies between World War I and World War II?

3. Social Revolution
Element: Examine the influence of Albert Einstein on science, Sigmund Freud on social thinking and Pablo Picasso on art
Vocabulary: Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Pablo Picasso

4. Stop and Think!
Why do you think the time period following World War I would be called the “Inter War Period”?
Why do you think the time period following World War I would be called the “Age of Uncertainty”?
Turn to your elbow partner. The person with the first name that come first alphabetically answer the first question. The other partner answer the second. Share your answers. Be prepared to explain YOUR PARTNER’S answer to the class during discussion!

5. Post World War I Europe After the War? Major issues What were the
Economically
Europe was
Unstable
Most of
Were Weak
Democracies
European
United States
Crippled the
Depression
The Great

6. The Great Depression October 1929 U.S. economy collapsed
many of the Nations were already struggling and relied on U.S. loans and investments
including Germany and Austria

7. The Weimar Republic
new democratic government in Germany after World War I
extremely weak
not a democratic tradition in Germany
many people blamed the government for German humiliation
unable to control the unstable economy
German money was used for toys and kindling

8. Physics Old Belief: before 1914
Enlightenment ideals of reason, science, and progress remained important to Europeans
based on Newton’s belief = everything ran like a machine, orderly fashion through known laws

9. Physics Albert Einstein: German-born physicist in 1905
theory of relativity = stated that space and time are not absolute but are relative to the observer
matter and energy reflect the relativity of space and time

12. Physics Influence on Science: matter believed to be energy
an idea that led to understanding the energies within atoms and to the Atomic Age
took the certainty out of the mechanical, Newtonian universe, showed that all phenomena could not be completely defined and predicted

14. Physics Uncertainty Principle:
In 1927 by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg
the behavior of subatomic particles was not predictable
suggests that all physical laws are based on uncertainty, or randomness

16. Psychology Sigmund Freud: turn of the century a doctor from Vienna
proposed groundbreaking theories about the human mind and human nature

17. Psychology Sigmund Freud:
human behavior strongly influenced by past experiences and internal forces that people are not aware of
painful experiences repressed and then they influenced people’s actions without their knowledge
Repression began in childhood

18. be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them
"The doctor should
be opaque to his patients
and, like a mirror,
should show them
nothing but
what is shown to him."
"Dreams are often
most profound when
they seem the most crazy."
"Men are more moral
than they think and
far more immoral
than they can imagine."

20. Psychology Psychoanalysis:
a method to help rid people of these repressed unconscious forces
Patient and therapist probe deep into the patient’s psyche through free association, talking, and dream analysis to go back to childhood and confront the painful experiences to unlock the repression

22. Psychology Psychoanalysis:
goal = the patient’s gaining control of the painful experience and being released from the unconscious control of the repression led to healing

23. Psychology Influence on Social Thinking:
gave us such concepts as the unconscious and repression
led to a major new profession—psychological therapy
added to the uncertainty of the era

25. Art Photography: George Eastman created his first Kodak camera in 1888
accurately depicted the world
anyone could capture reality

26. "Some painters transform the yellow spot into the sun."
sun into a yellow spot,
others transform a
yellow spot into the sun."

27. Art Pablo Picasso: Spaniard began his career by 1905
created a new style, called cubism
used geometric designs to recreate reality
painted objects from many different views at once

28. but a lifetime to paint like a child."
"It took me four years
to paint like Raphael,
but a lifetime to paint like a child."

29. Art
Influence on Art:
Artists came to see their strength was in creating reality, not mirroring it as the camera did
found meaning in individual consciousness
created modern art

30. "I paint objects as I think them,
not as I see them."

31. "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."