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Terrific Thursday, January 23, 2014 Turn in your homework from yesterday Take your seat Take out your warm-ups Warm-up What was Europe like at the end of WWI? What type of problems did countries like Germany, France and Great Britain face as a result of WWI?
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Today’s Agenda Warm-Up FN: “Postwar Social Changes” Homework – –Finish Vocabulary Vocabulary quiz moved to Monday
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Chapter 13, Section 1 Postwar Social Changes
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Today’s Standard 10.6.1 analyze the effects of WWI and understand the widespread disappointment with post WWI gov’t Topic – Effects of WWI – The 1920’s Focus Question How and why did society change after World War I?
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Reactions to WWI Destruction & horror of WWI made people question “progress” of society Existentialism claimed that there was “no universal meaning to life” “Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.” God is dead… -Friedrich Nietzsche
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Der Krieg
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Existentialism “no universal meaning to life” Dada – no meaning to art or life, reject the past
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Post War Art How are these pieces of Art Different? How are these pieces of Art Similar? Abstract – Swinging, by Vasily Kandinsky Surrealism – Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali
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Social Changes 20’s Technology – cars & the assembly line; airplane; radio; movies “Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion” of being eternal.”
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The Roaring 20’s in the U.S. U.S Experiences Economic BOOM Blues and Jazz music created Youth Rebellion – drinking & smoking; birth control –Flappers – liberated young women who wore short hair, short skirts. –women receive right to vote in 1919. The noise of cars, planes, radios, and jazz music made cities roar like never before!
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Jazz Quick-Write How does what you heard in the song reflect what we just discussed about the 20’s? 50 Words, complete sentences
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Reaction to Jazz Conservative men and women campaigned against drinking –Prohibition – a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol –Prohibition amendment was ratified in 1919, eventually (repealed in 1933) –Caused an increase in crime Speakeasies – illegal bars Moon shiners Black market
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New Literature – The Lost Generation Postwar writers saw WWI as a moral breakdown of western civilization Commented on immorality of men and women all in a search for happiness and meaning in life Work conveys a sense of loss, and meaninglessness of life Examples of Lost Generation works –T.S. Elliot The Waste Land –F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
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F.S. Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night "This land here cost twenty lives a foot that summer...See that little stream--we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk it--a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation." Uhhh… I sure hope he’s right…
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Paired Discussion Why did writers fell the way they did after WWI and how was this shown in the literature, art, music, etc…
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New Scientific Theories Radio activity: Marie Curie Theory of Relatively: Einstein Discovery of Penicillin: Alexander Fleming Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud
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Fabulous Friday, Jan. 25, 2013 Take your seat Take out your notebook Begin answer the essential question. EQ How and why did society change after World War I? Topic Sentence – answer the question RDF – Destruction of WWI and Existentialism Explanation - give examples, explain/define the RDF (art and music) Explanation - give examples, explain/define the RDF (literature) RDF – The 1920’s and the development of youth rebellion, new technology and new science Explanation - give examples, explain/define the RDF (Flappers and Technology) Explanation - give examples, explain/define the RDF (Science) Conc. Sent.– restate the topic sent using diff. words – wrap it up
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Today’s Agenda Essential Question FN: “Europe in the 1920’s” Answer Essential Question Homework – –Answer study guide questions 6-10
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Chapter 13, Section 1 Part 2 Europe After WWI
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Today’s Standard 10.6.1 analyze the effects of WWI and understand the widespread disappointment with post WWI gov’t Topic – Effects of WWI in Europe Focus Question What were the major effects of WWI on Europe?
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Europe After the War Every major European country nearly bankrupt New Democracies are unstable: –new experiment –Dozens of political groups
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Germany’s New Weimar Republic Weak Gov’t; no strong democratic tradition (used to Kaiser/King). Severe Inflation Germans hated that the gov’t followed Treaty of Versailles Ultimately was blamed for all of Germany’s problems Seen as corrupt and money hungry
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Inflation in Germany’s Weimar Republic Severe Inflation – loaf of bread from 1 mark (1918) to 200 billion (1923) Germans blamed Republic for problems
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The German Mark
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1 Million Mark Notes used as Note Paper
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Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic A medal commemorating Germany's 1923 hyperinflation. The engraving reads: "On 1st November 1923 1 pound of bread cost 3 billion, 1 pound of meat: 36 billion, 1 glass of beer: 4 billion." 50 million mark
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America helps Germany Dawes Act: gives Germany $200 million loan Inflation slowed; realistic reparation schedule By 1929 German factories producing prewar levels “Golden Twenties” in Germany. Mostly just Berlin recovered economically from 1923-1929
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The Dawes Plan in Action
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Arguing Allies France is concerned with securing its German border –They built the Maginot Line – to stop Germany from invading –France also strengthened its military and formed alliances Great Britain was unhappy with what France was doing
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Efforts at Lasting Peace U.S. stayed Isolationist, did not participate European affairs Germany admitted to League of Nations (1925) Kellogg-Briand Pact - promise “to renounce war” (1928) –Signed by almost every country in world, even USSR
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The Maginot Line
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Comparing and Contrasting the 1920’s The 1920’s in the US The 1920’s in Europe 4 similarities between Europe and the US 4 ways that the US was different from Europe 4 ways that Europe was different from the US The U.S. was still very isolationist. Differences Similarities Use your notes and chapter 13 section 1
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Focus Question How did society change after world war I? After World War I society was very different because … (why – answer the question). The role of women changed and women began (explain how they changed). A new type of author, called (describe the new artist) began writing novels that…. Lastly, there was an increase in the development of … and … such as…..
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Fabulous Friday, Feb. 4, 2011 Get your notebook – if you turned it in Take your seat Begin your Warm-Up Honors Warm-Up Explain what you know about the roaring 20’s based on your outline and what we talked about yesterday. 65 words, use complete sentences.
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Marvelous Monday, Feb. 7, 2011 Get your notebook – if you turned it in Take your seat Begin your Warm-Up Warm-Up Read over the “Costas Levels of Inquiry” handout, when finished read your notes from Friday and write a level two or level three question for the slide of notes we took on Friday.
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Today’s Agenda Warm-Up Class Notes: “Postwar Social Changes” Homework – –Chapter 13 sec. 2 Homework Ques 1-4
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Chapter 13, Section 1 Postwar Social Changes
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Today’s Standard 10.6 Students analyze the effects of the First World War. 1.Understand the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians. Abbreviated Version: analyze the effects of WWI and understand the widespread disappointment with post WWI gov’t
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Today’s Objective 1. Explain and discuss the results of WWI and how it lead to the events of the 1920’s Focus Question How and why did society change after World War I?
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