hist 1020 competing visions of the modern state

final

mass culture kc (1920s)

communication advances came from POSTWW1 WAR MOBILIZATION

• properganda (newspapers, music, theater)

• CHEAP AMUSEMENT (CONEY ISLAND)

• FILM

• RADIO

• ADVERTISING (WHEATIES 1st commercial)

MASS PRODUCTION after ww1 (FORD MODEL T)

used to form authoritarian govts

the great depression kc

the economy after ww1 was BAD

OCTOBER 1929: US CREDITORS call in loans (calling in a loan means the lender demands immediate repayement of loan even if the borrower doesnt have all the money)

resulted in: companies close, laid off workers, stop international trade

new deal kc (Delano Roosevelt)

It was a way to make new work & aid programs for every US citizen

authoritarian regimes kc

• REJECTED PARLIAMENT RULE

• RULE by MILITARY force & VIOLENCE

• dominated by leader’s CULT OF PERSONALITY

• Mass ORGZ for STATE purpose (single, official mass political parties) (Hitler Youth, Youth squads)

the US joined ww1 for 2 reasons

war to end all wars

make world safe for democracy

places of anti-colonial uprisings

EGYPT rebel BRITS

SYRIA rebel FRENCH

PUNJAB rebel INDIA

IRAQI rebel BRITS

1918 FLU epidemic

flu spread by WAR movement

Modern Times short film by CHARLIE CHAPLIN

was an example of pastoralism(critique of modern life outside the countryside)

was showing what factory life was like in US after ww1

BRIT response to GtDep

irish independence

working class LABOR PARTY

Franc response to GrDep

Social disorder

Coalition Govt (POPULAR FRONT) came to power

Popular Front

was a COALITION GOVT that guarenteed WORKER RIGHTS

• collective bargaining

• 40 Hr work week

• vacay

• min wage

authoritarian response to GrDep

new challenges to liberal governance on right & left

Right: dictatorships in ITALY, GERMANY, JAPAN

left: dictatorship in RUSSIA

how was authoritarianism supported?

claimed to govern on WILL of the PPL, even tho NO ELECTIONS or say

success based on necessity & claims to fix systemic problems

Soviet Union SOCIALISM (aka RUSSIA)

being a socialism

STALIN in power, making a noncapitalist govt & society (Socialism)

Italian FASCISM

right wing authoritarian movement

led by BENITO MUSSOLINI by using MASS CULTURE to promote rule (parades, films, radio) (and the blue meanie, and cowboy curtis and jambi the genie. robocop, the terminator, capt’n kirk, darth vader, lo pan, superman, every single power ranger, neil s preston, and theodore logan, spock, the rock, doc oc, and hulk hogan)

German NAZISM

right wing alternitive to socialism

HITLER wrote MEIN KAMPF

HITLER DICTATOR

came to power by fear of traditional CONSERVATIVES, ECONOMIC unrest,

exclude JEWS

Japanese Militarism

ww1 expanded japan

emperor HIROHITO- came to power 1926, DICTATOR, made Japan govt RELIGION based, DIVINE RIGHT (or mandate of heaven)