The Years in b/w the Wars

1
The Years in b/w the Warsthe search for
stability

• A. A weak League of Nations
• B. French most powerful European nation
• C. Inflation in Germany
• The Dawes Plangt 1924

2
The Roaring Twentiesan age of uncertainty
anxiety

• In the United States
• -Booming economy
• -The business of government
• -Social cultural tensions
• -A new mass culture
• -Harlem Renaissance

3
Rebellion in the Arts

• Dadaism
• Obsessed w/ the idea that life had no purpose
• Surrealism
• Considered to be more important than Dadaism
• Portrayed the unconscious
• Science
• Albert Einstein (physics)
• Sigmund Freud (psychology)
• Architecture
• Functionalism

4
Prosperity

• Model T (est. 1908)
• Highway system- Route 66 (by 1925)
• Bull Market
• Skyscrapers

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Culture

• The Golden Age of Sports
• Babe Ruth, Gertrude Ederle
• Radio
• Flappers
• Jazz Music
• Magazines
• Silent Movies
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6
Culture contd

• Silent Movies
• Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford
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• Literature
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Earnest
  Hemingway among the many.

7
President Harding Coolidge
1923-9
1921-3
8
A Depressiona period of low economic activity

• -The Great Depression (mid 20s-mid 30s)
• 2 factors
• Morale waned
• Unemployment at its peak in early 30s
• Political ideologies and methodologies
• Marxism, Nazism, Fascism rising

9
Fascism Rises in Europe

• Militant political movement
• Emphasized loyalty to the state obedience to
  its leader
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler