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
- Music and dance from all over –
- Tango,
- Swing and jazz
- Film (Hollywood and beyond)
- 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
- 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
- New forms and uses of communication and entertainment (Western primarily):
- Women’s rights
- Suffrage – right to vote- for general: http://womeninworldhistory.com/factLesson4.html - dates of suffrage being granted to women
- 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: Technology in world history / Call Number: 909 TEC Radio p. 25, Electricity p. 20-1, movies?
Title: Weapons and technology of World War I / - limited Call Number: 940.4 DOW
Author: Dowswell, Paul. Publisher: Chicago: Heinemann Library,Publication Date: 2002.
Summary: Examines the changes in weapons and tactics that impacted the way war was waged during World War I.
Title: World War I and the cultures of modernity / Call Number: 909.82 WOR - modernity, tourism, women,
Publisher: Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi Publication Date: 2000.
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.
