Cultural & Social Responses to WWI Project

Essential Question – How does the item that you are researching reflect a response to WWI? Be sure to describe the item and its development/history/impact as well as showing the connection to WWI.

Topics (Those in red do not have sources provided, but you should be able to find information fairly easily - look at your textbook (Chapter 15 Section 1 in particular)!!!

• Mass Culture (new patterns of social and cultural life influenced by new technology and science from WWI)
  • New forms and uses of communication and entertainment (Western primarily):
    • Radio
    • Phonograph
      • http://digital.nypl.org/lpa/nypl/about/about_index.cfm
    • Music and dance from all over –
      • Tango,
      • Swing and jazz
    • Film (Hollywood and beyond)
      • http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/focuson/film/film-archive/
      • http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/
  • Advertisement/Consumerism
    • http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/eaa/
    • http://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/search.aspx - British
    • http://advertising.harpweek.com/ - US ads
    • https://www.loreal.com/media/beauty-in/beauty-in-luxe-in-china/culture-and-beauty-tradition/the-changing-definitions-of-beauty-in-china (changing Chinese notions of beauty - towards bottom)
  • Political ads/mass communication and political leaders
    • https://www.ushmm.org/propaganda/
  • Art: One place to start is: https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/ but also http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTH20thcentury.html#Early20century
    • Modernism
    • Expressionism - https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abex/hd_abex.htm
    • Cubism - https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cube/hd_cube.htm
    • Dadaism - http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture8.html - but also useful for others
    • Surrealism - https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/surr/hd_surr.htm
    • Constructivism
  • Literature - Use ProQuest Learning Literature database: http://literature.proquestlearning.com/quick/executeSearch.do
    • Harlem Renaissance
    • Scott F. Fitzgerald
    • Negritude
• Women’s rights
  • Suffrage – right to vote- for general: http://womeninworldhistory.com/factLesson4.html - dates of suffrage being granted to women
    • US - http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
    • UK - http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/focuson/film/film-archive/archive.asp?catID=2&subCatID=2
    • https://www.iwm.org.uk/search/global?query=women%27s+suffrage&pageSize=
    • Philippines - http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson12/lesson12.php?s=2
  • Economic Power - Consider also women's economic power (e.g. advertisements aimed at them)
• Technology - some inventions found here: https://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml
  • Transatlantic cable
  • Automobile
  • Aviation
  • Psychology
  • Radiation
  • Relativity

Title: Science, technology, and society: the impact of science in the 20th century / Call Number: 509.04 SCI (Reference)

Publisher: Detroit: UXL, Publication Date: 2002. Physical Description: 3v.