Postwar Changes to Society & Culture
Popular culture spreads.
Prohibition
- helps creates organized crime.
- speakeasies
- Al Capone
- artists experiment with new types of literature
- realism to abstract
- Jazz emerges
- Duke Ellington
- Louis Armstrong
- Harlem Renissance
- Af. Am.'s cultural awakening
New Scientific Discoveries
- Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- space & time are not absolute
- Fleming's Penicillin
- kills bacteria/antibiotics
- Freud's psychoanalysis
- subconscious mind
- Marie Curry's Radioactivity
Christian fundamentalist movement sweeps rural areas.
- believe in tradition Christian ideologies
- Jesus/Bible
- preachers travel the country
- use radio to spread message
- John T. Scopes
Many young people reject traditional views.
- reject the values of their parents
- rebellion
- Jazz Age
- flapper- freedom
Women's Lives Change
- Women win the right to vote.
- labor saving devices
- pursued careers
- sports to art
- newspaper reporters
- novelists
What changes did Western society & culture experience after WWI?