1. Postwar Social Changes Chapter 16 - Section 1
Between the Wars
Postwar Social Changes
Chapter 16 - Section 1

2. Do Now: Monday 4/1/13
What is the message of this political cartoon? Look closely at the ENTIRE picture.

4. Changes in Society Young people rejected their parents values
WWI shattered the idea of optimism brought on by the Enlightenment
Reaction  society & culture changed rapidly in Europe & U.S.

5. The Roaring Twenties New technologies = new culture
Affordable cars,
improved telephone communication,
media  motion pictures & radio
JAZZ  African American musicians combined Western harmonies with African rhythms.
Louis Armstrong Hot Five
Duke Ellington Cotton Club
The 1920s became known as the Jazz Age

6. Europe Recovers U.S. experienced a “boom” after WWI
Europe embraced American culture
Nightclubs and jazz were symbols of freedom
Young people rejected moral values and rules of the Victorian Age
Flapper  symbol of rebellious Jazz Age
First were American
European’s soon adopted the fashion
flapper, Coco Chanel

7. U.S. Reacts to Jazz Age Prohibition  1919-1933 18th Amendment
Keep people from the “negative effects of drinking”
Speakeasies and organized crime exploded
1925  Scopes Trial in Tennessee
John T. Scopes taught evolution in his class

8. New Scientific Discoveries
Atomic bomb  Italian Enrico Fermi, American physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller
1939 proposed to US government by Einstein
Government reacted slowly to atomic bomb
1944  Manhattan Project in New Mexico
Split nuclei of atoms in two produces huge burst of energy
Penicillin  Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming
Freud  Psychoanalysis

9. Explain THREE ways society changed after WWI.
Exit Ticket
Explain THREE ways society changed after WWI.