Chapter 18 Sections 1 The Postwar World A

Chapter 18 Sections 1 The Postwar World

A Revolution in Ideas �Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 allows women in the United States to vote. �This causes women to yearn for more rights and equality and throw away many inhibitions �The arrival of new trends and styles: makeup, shorter skirts, cropped hair, “flapper” styles.

�New Technology and Science advancements in technology included: automobiles, broader radio communication, products for the home (refrigerator, vacuum, iron)=all lead to more consumerism. �Albert Einstein introduces theories of relativity and Sigmund Freud revolutionizes people’s ideas of how the human body works.

Upheaval in the Arts �Many writers including T. S. Eliot, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce. �Pablo Picasso created a new form of abstract art known as cubism. This caused an uproar in art and also lead to surrealism and style revolutionized by Salvador Dali.

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, " he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. "

Music and Dance �European composers transform the classical form. �Sergey Prokofiev and Arnold Schoenberg both revolutionize the composition of modern music. �Meanwhile, in the United States the “golden age of jazz” is occurring. Artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and later Duke Ellington are leaders in this area of the arts.