1. Chapter 28 The Rise of Totalitarianism
Section 1 Postwar Social Changes

2. 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

3. …..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

4. 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

5. Prohibition!!!  Not everyone embraced carefree Jazz Age
Prohibition activists worked for 90 years
18th Amendment-21st Amendment
Prohibition led to violence, crime, speakeasies

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. …..More science
Alexander Fleming – discovered nontoxic mold that kills bacteria “penicillin” to treat infections

11. Mind Games
Sigmund Freud – pioneered psychoanalysis* the method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders.

12. Modern Art Artwork = abstract – only lines, colors, shapes
Dada movement inspired surrealism – rejected rational thought.

13. 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.