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Dictatorships of WWII and Postwar Uncertainty Flashcards

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What Enlightenment belief did the war destroy?

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  • That reason would prevail and progress would continue
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How did the people react to questioning their traditional beliefs?

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  • Some looked for answers using science
  • They enjoyed how technology had improved
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How had technology improved during the war?

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  • Better communication and transportation
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What happened as society became more open?

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  • Young people adopted new values
  • Women demanded more rights
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What did the new styles of art, music, literature, and philosophy reflect?

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Uncertain times

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Which scientists’ ideas had enormous impacts in the 20th century

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  • Albert Einstien
  • Sigmud Freid
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Einstein’s idea

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Theory of Relativity

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Sigmund Freid’s idea

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  • The human mind is split into the conscious and the unconscious mind
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How did Sigmud Freid’s idea weaken faith in logic

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  • He said that the majority of the human mind was unconsious, and illogical
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How did certain writers and thinkers express their anxieties

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  • They described disturbing visions of the present and future, leaning towards a more modernist view of society
  • They became part of modernist and expressionistic movements
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What did T.S Elliot write in 1922 about Western society?

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  • He wrote that Western Society had lost its values and described the postwar world as a barren wasteland drained of hope and faith
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Which poem did this passage come from, and who wrote it?
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”

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“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats

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13
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During the 1920’s, many American writers left the US to go live where?

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Europe

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What did Gertrude Stein refer to the ‘many American writers who left the US to go live in Europe’ as and why?

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“The Lost Generation” because they were trying to find meaning in life

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What did the books by Franz Kafka depict?

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  • People caught in frightening situations that they couldn’t understand or escape
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Who and which idea did many authors pull their inspiration from?

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Freud’s idea of the unconsious

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Who wrote Ulysses

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James Joyce wrote it.

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18
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What was Ulysses about?

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It was about a single day in the lives of Dublin for 3 separate people.

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How did Ulysses by James Joyce capture Sigmud Freud’s idea of the unconsious?

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  • It was a stream of consiousness from the characters
  • It broke normal sentence structures to show how people think
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What did thinkers turn to when searching for meaning in the uncertain world?

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existentialism

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What do existentialists believe?

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  • That there is no universal meaning to life, and that each individual gives it meaning
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Who were existantialists influenced by?

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Freidrich Neitzsche

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23
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Who wrote that Western ideas such as reason, democracy, and progress stifled people’s creativity and actions

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Freidrich Neitzsche

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What did Freidrich Neitzsche urge?

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A return to the aincent values of heroism, pride, assertaveness, and strength.

25
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Nihilism

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A philosophy that everything is meaningless. It rejects morals/values.

26
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What philosophy had an influence on politics in the 1920’s/1930’s?

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Nihilism

27
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Describe the timeline of the development of the arts durring the war?

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New directions in music and art were introduced in the prewar period, but these ideas evolved after the war

28
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Art went from it’s earlier romantic and realistic to _______

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Modernism and expressionism

29
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What did Artists want to depict during the war?

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Emotion and imagination

30
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How did painters like Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky paint in expressionistic styles?

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They used bold colors and distorted or exaggerated forms

31
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Who founded Cubism?

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Georges Barques and Pablo Picasso

32
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Who were the founders of Cubism inspired by?

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Traditional African Art

33
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Cubism

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  • Art style
  • Turns objects into geometric shapes.
  • Often several different perspectives shown at a time
34
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Surrealism

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  • style of the arts where artists tried to call on the unconscious parts of their minds
35
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Who’s ideas were surrealism inspired by?

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Frued’s

36
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How did Igor Stravinsky use more abstract styles in his composition of “Rite of Spring”

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used irregular rhythms and dissonances, or harsh combinations of sound.

37
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What popular type of music emerged

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Jazz

38
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How did society challenge traditional social patterns?

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Young people broke traditional values norms and romantacism

39
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What new law changed women’s rights?

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  • After the war women’s suffarage became a law in many countries
40
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How did women style themselves in the 20’s

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  • they abandoned restricting clothes, cut their hair short, and wore shorter and looser clothes
41
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In what ways did women act that differed from the ways of pre1920’s?

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they smoke, drank, and drove in public

42
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What did Margaret Sanger and Emma Goldman risk arrest for?

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Birth control

43
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Women and jobs in 1920

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Increase of working women

44
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What did many African Americans do before the end of WW1?

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Left the south and migrated north to cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburg

45
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How did the automobile evolve from wartime inventions?

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Air filled tires, electric starters, and more powerful engines

46
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Changes in the automobile after the war

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  • Evolved from wartime inventions
  • Now sleek and brightly polished
  • Affordable to middle class
47
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How did increased auto use change family life?

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  • Increased travel for leisure
  • Increased commutes
48
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Where did 2 British piolts fly in 1919

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From Newfoundland, across the atlantic, to Ireland

49
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Where did Charles Lindenburgh fly in 1927?

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from New York to Paris

50
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What was the objective when it came to airplanes?

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  • To use them for travel
51
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Radio and Movies after WW2

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  • use increased
  • used for advertising
52
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Push for radio development came when?

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durring World War 1

53
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KDKA

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First radio commercial station. It became popular quickly

54
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Charlie Chaplain was best known for what?

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  • Being a comedic genius in silent films, best known for portrayl of lonley little tramp confused by life
55
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When was sound added to movies?

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Late 1920’s

56
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How did household appliances change life for women?

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It made the standard of cleaness in the home higher

57
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Household appliance examples

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Coffee Pot
Washing Machine
Iron
Vacuum cleaner
Refrigerator

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