Postwar Uncertainty Mr. Cole Rowland High School.

Postwar UncertaintyMr. Cole

Rowland High School

Vocabulary textbook pgs. 463-467

disillusionment – to move away from idealism and become bitter

lost generation – a group of disillusioned writers after WWI , including Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway

expatriates - people who leave their native country to live elsewhere

suffrage - the right to vote

Revolutions in Western Culture

Science Literature

Name ________________________________ World History – Years of Crisis

Textbook pages 463 - 465

Philosophy Painting Music

In your opinion, whose contribution has had the most lasting impact? Explain.

Technological Advances

Automobiles Airplanes Radio Movies

Textbook pages 466-467

What impact did the increased use of automobiles have on the average person.

Postwar Uncertainty Opening Activity: Complete the following flow map in

your notebook

RenaissanceScientific Revolution

EnlightenmentPolitical

Revolutions

Industrial Revolution

Imperialism World War One 1920’s

Significance? Significance? Significance? Significance?


Postwar Uncertainty

RenaissanceScientific Revolution

EnlightenmentPolitical

Revolutions

Industrial Revolution

Imperialism World War One 1920’s



Postwar Uncertainty Revolution in Science

Albert Einstein – Theory of Relativity Sigmund Freud – Unconscious Mind

Postwar Uncertainty Literature in the 1920’s

William Butler Yeats – “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” T.S. Elliot – The Wasteland Franz Kafka – The Trial James Joyce – Stream of Consciousness Gertrude Stein – “the lost generation” F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby Ernest Hemingway – A Farewell to Arms

Postwar Uncertainty Philosophers react to uncertainties

Existentialism – no universal meaning to life

Postwar Uncertainty Revolution in the Arts

Cubism Expressionism Surrealism

Traditional Architecture

Post WWI Architecture

Postwar Uncertainty Changes for Women

Suffrage New dress New freedoms New careers

A Worldwide Depression

Vocabulary - textbook pgs. 470-475

coalition - temporary alliance of several parties to form a majority.

renounce - to disown prosperity - success, wealth, favorable conditions reparations - payment required from a defeated nation

for damages inflicted during a war inflation - increase in prices resulting from high supply of

dollars and low supply of goods surplus - extra

speculate - to buy something at a low price hoping to sell it for profit at a higher price

tariff - taxes charged by a government on imported or exported goods

standard of living - access to necessities and/or comforts

isolationism - policy of avoiding political ties to other countries

Vocabulary - textbook pgs. 470-475

A World Wide Depression

No experience of democracy

Too many political parties(coalition governments)

Use to authoritarian governments

Frequent changes in democratic governments


Germany lacked a democratic tradition

Too many political parties

Blamed for the first world war

Weak Weimar Republic


German had not increased wartime taxes

Printed money

Heavy reparation payments

German Inflation


Realistic payment plan

200 million in loans

Germany began to recover economically

Dawes Plan


Treaties

Hopes for Peace

League of Nations

Kellogg-BriandPact

Lacarno

A World Wide Depression Opening Activity: put the following vocabulary

words into a sentence: inflation and reparations.


Americans were buying less Flawed U.S. Economy

Overproduction

Uneven Distribution of wealth

Rising unemployment

Speculation in the stock market


The Great Depression


Mass unemployment

Businesses failed

The depression spread around the world

Great DepressionHigh tariffs

Nationalism and Tariffs

Just like

Just like

dangerous water

RF: symbolize(s)

ship small ice bergs

International Trade Economic Nationalism Actions that hurt international trade

Just like

large ice berg

Most effective action to hurt international

trade

What is the cartoon saying about the effect economic nationalism has on international trade?

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