Disillusionment at PlayEurope leading up to WWII

The TheoryFreud argued that the state had failed to live up to the moral standards it had set for its people.

This realization by the people is what we call, “disillusionment.” (OR loss of trust)

The Actions• People begin to take life into their

own hands now that they realize they cannot wait for the state to take care of them. Their actions are seen in:• Surrealism• Existentialism• Women’s Suffrage • Communism• Jazz Age• Hollywood

definition: the desire to unleash one’s subconscious to uncover the contradictions of everyday life

Surrealism

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EXISTENTIALISM

Definition: A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts.

Existentialism is a Humanism (1945)- Sartre

And when we say that man takes responsibility for himself, we say more than that - he is in his choices responsible for all men. All our acts of creating ourselves create at the same time an image of man such as we believe he must be. Thus, our personal responsibility is vast, because it engages all humanity.

If I want, say, to marry and have children, such choice may depend on my situation, my passion, my desire, but by it I engage not only myself, but all humanity in the way of the monogamy. In fashioning myself, I fashion man. This helps us to understand some rather grandiloquent words like anguish, abandonment, despair.

The existentialist declares that man is in anguish, meaning that he who chooses cannot escape a deep responsibility for all humanity. Admittedly, few people appear to be anxious; but we claim that they mask their anguish, that they flee it.

Women Speak OutDuring WWI, women entered the workforce while men went to war.

... but then the men came home...

Think about this...• In the first poster, why did the

government want women to work in the factories?o What kind of words did they use?

• In the second image, what are the consequences of women gaining more independence through the right to vote (suffrage)?

Women's Suffrage

Women earn suffrage in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Sweden and Austria following WWI.

Oh, yea, they also let loose

Communism• 1924 Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin takes control of the Communist Party.

•Unsuccessful uprisings in Germany, Hungary, Bavaria, and Italy•Mao Zedong leads Chinese revolution

International eventsIndia• Active civil

disobedience begins in 1920• Mahatma Gandhi leads

boycott over salt tax by British in 1930

China• Japan invades China

during Chinese Civil War (1931 and 1937)