1. What changes does the world see after World War I?
Post War Uncertainty
What changes does the world see after World War I?

2. The Roaring 20s: Science & Literature
World War I shattered Enlightenment ideas like progress and reason
Unconventional styles become popular 1920s as people question “traditions”
Science
Albert Einstein offered new ideas about space, time, and energy – no absolute laws
Sigmund Freud argues that human behavior is irrational, weakening the idea of reason
Literature
Writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald & Ernest Hemingway were part of the “lost generation”
Many went from city to city searching for the meaning of life
Existentialism, the belief that there is no universal meaning to life becomes popular
Existentialists argued that people make their own life choices and that religion & democracy have stifled individual creativity

3. The Roaring 20s:Revolution in the Arts
Surrealism was a movement that linked dreams with real life
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Jazz & blues were a loose and free style that broke with the traditional methods
King Carter Jazz Band
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Muddy Waters

4. The Roaring 20s: Improving Lives
Women became more independent in the 1920s, abandoning restrictive hair styles & clothing
Technological advances also began to improve people’s lives
Travel was easier with planes & cars
Radio & movies entertained the masses
Household appliances improved the way people live in their homes
Electric Iron
Refrigerator
Washing Machine

5. 1930s: A Worldwide Depression
Germany’s Weimar Republic found it very difficult to govern
Because of its huge war debts, Germany is spending more money than it is taking in
The Weimar Republic then prints more money to solve the problem
This actually causes German money to lose value
US starts loaning Germans money through the Dawes Act
End of the 20s: US Economy starts collapsing
Bad investments, stock market crash, run on banks create Great Depression
US demands immediate repayment of foreign loans
Most countries can’t pay back US – especially Germany who will be hit hardest by the worldwide depression