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Day 6 – 20 th Century technology and social changes

Enduring Understandings International conflict often leads to domestic changes. 3. In times of crisis, people often turn to strong leaders in search for stability. 5. Conflicts of the 20 th Century were rooted in political and ideological differences around the world.

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Day 6 – 20 th Century technology and social changes

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  1. Enduring Understandings • International conflict often leads to domestic changes. • 3. In times of crisis, people often turn to strong leaders in search for stability. • 5. Conflicts of the 20th Century were rooted in political and ideological differences around the world. Day 6 – 20thCentury technology and socialchanges • 15. How is Gandhi’s satyagraha (civil disobedience) different from the Russian Revolution and the Chinese Civil War as a means to achieve political change? Which method is better? Explain why. • 16. Describe the movements for independence in Arabia, Iran and Turkey. How do these compare to India, China and Russia? • 17. How did the events of WWI affect the arts, literature and society? • 18. How did technological change affect how people lived their lives? • Agenda • Review the rise of Indian and other nationalism. Use this information to further answer the Review Questions 15 and 16 • Complete packet page 20 about An Age of Uncertainty. • Which change seems to be the most important? Why? • Which will have the greatest impact on your lives today? • Is there a central thread that runs through the science, art and social changes? • Work on Level 1 and 2 activities

  2. Keys to scientific, artistic and cultural changes in the 1920s • The horrors, brutality and seemingly meaninglessness of WWI lead to popular changes in our view of the world • Science and psychology challenged our comfortable view of the concreteness of the world and our understanding of it an ourselves • Art – literature, music, and fine arts represented human discomfort at our own existence • Philosophy of the existentialists described these discomforts - there no longer was to be meaning in life or an after-life except what each individual created for himself through will, free choice and taking responsibility – there was to be longer a central set of rules – it was a very individualistic philosophy – these ideas were not uniform, however • Music like jazz, culture like the flappers social changes further eroded many traditional ways of life – further illustrating the existentialist view on life and the changing role of women in society • As many individuals adopted a kind of existentialism, airplanes, cars, radio, movies brought many in the world closer together – ironically leading to economic catastrophe

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