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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?

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