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World War I marked what?
The great divide between the old and new.
The postwar period was a time of breaking _________ and experimenting with new styles in what?
^ Tradition
Politics and culture.
Nineteenth Amendment = ?
*Y’all, it’s Women’s History Month. Get this right.
Gave women in the United States the right to vote.
Flapper = ?
The newer, more progressive fashion style for women that emerged in the Roaring 20s.
The decade following World War I (the 1920s) witnessed what?
A revolution in transportation and communication.
List some of the most influential inventions of the 1920s:
Automobile
Radio
Packaged foods
Refrigerators
Vacuum cleaners
Electric irons
Albert Einstein = ?
Time and space depend on the relative motion of bodies in space.
The speed of light is constant.
All matter has energy.
E = MC² led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
Sigmund Freud = ?
Revolutionized people’s ideas about how the human mind works.
Concluded that the unconscious mind play a major role in shaping behavior because it is full of early childhood. memories.
Many people attacked his work, but they eventually accepted it.
Oedipus Complex = ?
The sexual desire that a child normally feels toward the parent of the opposite sex, along with feelings of jealousy toward the parent of the same sex.
James Joyce = ?
Author of Ulysses and Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man, he took a stream-of-conscious approach to writing.
Stream-of-Conscious = ?
An approach to writing in which an author presents the inner thoughts—rather than just the external actions—of their characters.
A landmark in the development of the modern novel.
Which authors wrote about despair? (i.e., list the emo boys.)
T.S. Eliot
John Steinbeck
Franz Kafka
Eric Maria Remarque
Which authors wrote anti-war literature?
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
Pablo Picasso = ?
Painted the earliest example of cubism.
Cubism = ?
An abstract art form that uses intersecting geometric shapes.
Dada = ?
Stressed absurdity and the role of the unpredictable in life. The paintings and poems of this movement consisted of meaningless and random arrangements of objects and words.
Salvador Dali = ?
The most famous surrealist painter.
Surrealism = ?
An art form that used dreamlike and unnatural combinations of objects.
Sergey Prokofiev = ?
Created dissonant music.
Dissonant music = ?
Music that lacked the familiar harmonies of traditional forms; unpleasant to listen to.
Arnold Schoenberg = ?
Proposed new musical arrangements based on twelve equal values.
Used dissonance as an expression of decay in Western society.
Jazz = ?
A mixture of American folk songs, West African rhythms, harmonies from European classical music, and work songs from the days of slavery.
List the pioneers of jazz:
Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Jelly Roll Morton
Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham did what
Created what we consider to be modern dance.
Sergei Diaghilev = ?
Spearheaded a company of dancers known as the Ballet Russes.
Developed modern ballet.
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