Assignment: Days That Shook

the World

• Directions: For each of the following dates, put them in order on a timeline, write the date and explain in three sentences what happened on that date.

• 9/1/1923

• 1/16/1920

• 4/4/1968

• 11/ 8/1932

Today’s Standard

10.6 Students analyze the effects of the First World War.

1. Understand the widespread disillusionment

with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians.

Today’s Objectives

1. Explain and discuss the results of WWI and how it lead to the events of the 1920’s

Chapter 13, Section 1

Postwar Social Changes

Essential Question

• What changes did Western Society and culture experience after WWI?

Reaction to WWI

• Destruction & horror of WWI made people question “progress” of society

• The Roaring 20’s

– Jazz music comes on the scene

– U.S. experiences a “boom time”

• Europeans want to be like us

• Youth Rebellion – short hair, short skirts; drinking & smoking; birth control

– Flappers – liberated young women

Jazz Quick-Write

How does what you heard in the song reflect what we just discussed about the 20’s?

50 Words, complete sentences

Social Changes • Existentialism claimed

that there was “no universal meaning to life”

• 20’s Technology – cars & the assembly line; airplane; radio; movies

Reaction to Jazz • Conservative men and

women campaigned against drinking

• Prohibition – a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol

• Prohibition amendment was ratified in 1919, eventually (repealed in 1933)

• Caused an increase in crime – Speakeasies – illegal bars

– Moon shiners

– Black market

New Literature –

The Lost Generation

• Postwar writers saw WWI as a moral breakdown of western civilization

• Work conveys a sense of loss, and meaninglessness of life

• Examples of Lost Generation works – T.S. Elliot The Waste Land

– F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Literature Quick Write

Explain why writers felt the way they did after WWI and how you think it affected the

work they created.

50 Words, use complete sentences

New Scientific Theories

• Radio activity: Marie Curie

• Theory of Relatively: Einstein

• Discovery of Penicillin: Alexander Fleming

• Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud