1. Modernism

2. Modernism
A literary movement that roughly spanned the time period between the two world wars, Modernist literature is most often about alienation, the fragmentation of society, and the unsuccessfull search for meaning and love in life.

3. Ambivelance
Simultaneous contradictory feelings or emotions about a topic.
(A love/hate relationship.)

4. The American Dream
Social Mobility
Meritocracy
Rags to Riches

5. The Second Industrial Revolution
Henry Ford
Assembly Lines
Trucking

6. The Roaring Twenties Flappers New Found Prosperity Prohibition
Women’s Suffrage
th Amendment
New Found Prosperity
Prohibition
th Amendment

7. Fragmentation of Society
Automobile
Urbanization
Increase in urban labor
Development of early suburbs
Immigration
Fast pace of technology
Religion

8. Disillusion
the recognition that a belief once held was merely an illusion; the condition of being disappointed.
1919 World Series
World War I
The Lost Generation

9. “The Great War”

10. “The Great War”

11. “The Great War”