Modern Western Civilization

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Modern Western Civilization

• Lecture12
• Age of Anxiety
• 1920-1939

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Themes

• The horrors of WWI made Western intellectuals
  question the enlightenment.
• The Great Depression caused anxiety over
  economics.
• The Treaty of Versailles was an uneasy truce
  which caused anxiety over politics.

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Raymond Poincare
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Anti-French poster "Hands off the Ruhr The
French occupation of the Ruhr to collect
reparations payments raised a storm of patriotic
protest in Germany. This anti-French poster of
1923 (Hands Off the Ruhr) turns Marianne, the
personification of French republic virtue, into a
vicious harpy.
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Hooverville In Seattle
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Meridel Lesueur

• When did Meridel Lesueur write this article?
  Where was the setting of the scene she was
  describing?
• Whats the tone of this article?
• What problems did the general population suffer
  during the depression? What problems seemed
  peculiar to women during the depression?
• How did the depression affect family life?
• How did the depression threaten the American
  Dream?

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Keynesian Economics

• During a depression the government needs to put
  money into the economy to get it to produce
  money.
• Pump-priming to get people to work. FDR used
  it with the WPA (Works Progress Administration).
• Deficit spending.

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Scandinavian socialism championed cooperation and
practical welfare measures, playing down strident
rhetoric and theories of class conflict. This
Norwegian poster for The Oslo Breakfast showed
the Scandinavian approach, which provided every
schoolchild in the Norwegian capital with a good
breakfast free of charge.