What effects did World War I have on writers, painters, and musicians who worked in the post-war years?
Recognizing effects: How did technology change daily life after World War I? Think about advances in communication, advances in transportation, and new forms of entertainment.
Recognizing effects: What were the two ways in which the effects of World War I continued to be felt in the decades that followed it? Explain your answers.
Explain how new scientific theories challenged old beliefs.
Describe how the brutality of War prompted philosophers and writers to explore new ideas.
Summarize new styles in arts, architecture, and music.
Identify the changing roles of women.
Trace new technological advances.
A New Revolution in science
Impact of Einstein's theory of relativity
Influence of Freudian psychology
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
Sigmund Freud
Literature in the 1920s
Writers reflect society's concern
Thinkers react to uncertainties
The Lost Generation A&E Biography
The Lost Generation : Expatriate Writers of the 20th Century
Existentialism
Nietzsche
Revolution in the Arts
Artist rebel against tradition
Composers try news.
The case for Surrealism
La La Land 2017 - Sebastian explains Jazz to Mia
What is Jazz?
Society challenges convention
Women's role change
The Changing role of women
Technological advances improve life
The automobile alters Society
Airplanes transform travel
Radio and movies dominate popular entertainment
The rise of Automobile
History Brief: Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis
The evolution of Radio
The History of Cinema
The evolution of cinema (1878-2017)
Albert Einstein
Scientist who developed the theory of relativity
Theory of relativity
Idea that as moving objects approach the speed of light, space and time become relative
Sigmund Freud
Physician who exposed the workings of the unconscious mind
Existentialism
Philosophy that says each person must make meaning in a world that has no universal meaning
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher who dismissed reason, democracy, and progress as empty ideas
Surrealism
Art movement in which is a dreamlike world, outside of reality, is portrayed or evoked
Jazz
Lively, loose form of popular music developed in the United States
Charles Lindbergh
First person to fly alone across the atlantic