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Bell Work. Come in and pick up “What is a Flapper” sheet on the back table. You have 15 minutes to complete it. The Postwar World. The Roaring 20’s. Changing Patterns. Warren Harding – elected Pres. 1920 “Return to Normalcy” But there was no going back

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Bell Work

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  1. Bell Work • Come in and pick up “What is a Flapper” sheet on the back table. • You have 15 minutes to complete it.

  2. The Postwar World The Roaring 20’s

  3. Changing Patterns • Warren Harding – elected Pres. 1920 • “Return to Normalcy” • But therewas no going back • Ppl in N. Amer. And Europe experimented w/ new customs and ways of life.

  4. What’s Trending? • Women gained a new level of independence • 19th Amendment • Women known as “flappers” created a revolution in manners and morals. • Ppl in general wanted larger than life heroes. • Babe Ruth – baseball • Big Bill Tilden – Tennis • Gertrude Ederle – Swimming • Charles Lindbergh – Pilot

  5. What’s Trending? • WW1 opened a lot of doors for economic development. • Pres. Calvin Coolidge summed up the U.S. in the 20’s. • “The business of America is business”

  6. Technology • Decade following WW1 witnessed a revo. In transportation and communication. • Automobiles had the biggest impact in the world. • U.S. became very mobile • Radios produced a homogenous culture.

  7. Technology • The demand for consumer goods increased. • Vacuum cleaners, packaged foods, electric irons • Ppl had more leisure time. • Many spent their free time enjoying another new product: The Movies

  8. Physics • 1905 – German physicist Albert Einstein introduced his Theory of Relativity. • No absolutes in time and space • Time and space depend on the relative motion of bodies and space. • Speed of light is constant and all matter has energy.

  9. Physics • 1945 - Einstein’s E=MC^2 was supported w/ the first atomic bomb. • “There are no absolutes in any field of knowledge or moral values.”

  10. Psychology • Austrian physician, Sigmund Freud, revolutionized ideas about how the mind works. • Unconscious mind plays a major role in shaping behavior. • Led to new approaches w/ mental illnesses and education.

  11. The Arts • Biggest gap btwnold and new after WW1 was in art. • Painting, literature, music, dance, etc. • New styles introduced

  12. Literature • Poets like T. S. Eliot used a complex style to present a sense of despair about life. • No hope • Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald developed different styles. • 1922 – Irish Novelist James Joyce published Ulysses • Style known as “stream of consciousness”

  13. Literature • Harlem Renaissance – African American Literary movement. • Focused on African American experience in U.S. • John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath described the Oklahoma farmers who abandoned their fields. • Moved to Cali.

  14. Painting • Radical new styles in painting. • 1907 – Pablo Picasso introduced cubism w/ Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. • Dada stressed absurdity and the unpredictability of life. • Dada’sreliance on imagination led to surrealism • Dream-like images

  15. Painting • Salvador Dali – known for his impossible images. (Spanish painter) • Social realist painters showed the human suffering caused by the Depression (1930’s). • Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, etc.

  16. Music / Dance • Several composers and musicians changed their styles after WW1. • Europeans conducted music w/o traditional harmonies. • U.S. – 1920’s were known as the “jazz age.” • Combination of American, West African, and European classical music.

  17. Music / Dance • Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham – changed dance into an art form in U.S. • Russian sponsor, Sergey Diaghilev, developed modern ballet. • George Balanchine expanded Sergey’s work – brought it to the U.S.

  18. Architecture • 20’s and 30’s saw new designs in buildings and furnishings. • Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus school of design • Frank Lloyd Wright blended architecture w/ surrounding nature.

  19. Pop. Culture • Hollywood productions dominated movie theaters around the world. • The creative use of cameras elevated silent films into an art form. • 1927 – The Jazz Singer was the first non-silent film. • October 1929 – Tragedy struck w/ deadly consequences

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