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Postwar Social Changes

Postwar Social Changes. Chapter 16, Section 1. The Roaring Twenties. Flappers. Women’s Lives. Flappers were highly visible, but actually a very small percentage. Most women saw limited progress in the postwar years.

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Postwar Social Changes

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  1. Postwar Social Changes Chapter 16, Section 1

  2. The Roaring Twenties

  3. Flappers

  4. Women’s Lives • Flappers were highly visible, but actually a very small percentage. Most women saw limited progress in the postwar years. • While some women found careers, the home was still the most important job. Labor-saving devices became common in middle-class homes in the 1920s

  5. Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and canned foods made chores less time-consuming

  6. Iron Jawed Angels

  7. Emancipation • Women pursued careers – sports, arts, pilots, newspaper reporters, novelists, etc– but most professions were still dominated by men.

  8. Scopes (“Monkey”) Trial

  9. Prohibition

  10. Speakeasies

  11. Trends in Literature • A loss of faith(T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) • Many authors moved to Paris (Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald) • Gertrude Stein: “The Lost Generation” • Virginia Wolfe: Mrs. Dalloway • Finnegan’s Wake: James Joyce

  12. The Great Gatsby

  13. Harlem Renaissance

  14. Josephine Baker

  15. Billie Holiday

  16. Jazz Age

  17. Scientific Discoveries

  18. Albert Einstein

  19. Enrico Fermi • Nuclear physicist • Quantum theory • Manhattan project

  20. Alexander Fleming

  21. Sigmund Freud

  22. New Trends in Art

  23. New Trends in Art

  24. Abstract Art

  25. Dadaism

  26. Art Deco

  27. Art Deco

  28. Surrealism • Automatic Drawing & Automatic Painting

  29. Surrealism • Frottage

  30. Surrealism • Grottage

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