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"Age of Anxiety" Flashcards

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manifesto of anarchism

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syndicism

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driven by sexual, agressive, and pleasure seeking desires by irrational people

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ID

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in his book ‘Thus Spake Zarathura’ he claimed God is Dead; critic of rationalism of the enlightenment

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Nietzsche

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convinced people that immediate experience is as important as rational and scientific thinking for understanding reality

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Bergson

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came up with syndicalism;; thought socialism would come to power through a strike of working people

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Sorel

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came up with ID; ; developed Freudian psychology

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Freud

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poet; spoke of ‘cruelly injured mind’

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Valery

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developed logical empiricism; part of the Vienna Circle

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Wittgenstein

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abstract concepts regarding God, freedom, etc. (intangible things); Only experiance is worth analyzing

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Logical empircism

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wrote the decline of the west

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Spenger

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considered the most famous epic poet of 20th century

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T.S. Elliot

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wrote powerful novel detailing the horrors of trench warfare; “All Quiet on the Western Front”

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Remarque

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portrayed helpless individuals destroyed by hostile and surreal forces

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Kafka

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saw life as absurd and having no meaning; atheist thought; individual has to find own meaning

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existentalism

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communist; thought life had no meaning and people simply existed

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Sartre

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wrote “The Fountainhead”, “We the Living”, and “Anthem”

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Rand

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Wrote ‘Lord of the Flies

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Golding

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wrote ‘Animal Farm’

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Orwell

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popularized after WWI; challenged but held ideas and led to uncertainty

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“New Physics”

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Quantum Theory

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Max Planck

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Theory of Relativity; e=mc2

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Einstein

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made ‘Principle of Uncertainty’; it’s impossible to predict somethings behavior

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Heisenburg

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demonstrated the atom could be split

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Rutherford

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broke sharply with the past in his design of the fagus shoe factory at Alfred, Germany; Clean, light, elegant building of glass and iron

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Bauhaus movement

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painted Guerinca; developed cubism; most important artist of 20th century

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Picasso

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sought to evoke emotion through non-figural painting; expressionist

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Kandinsky

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“Dada”; nonsensical word that mirrored a post-WWI world that no longer made sense

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Dadism

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leader of Dadism movement; got a urinal and called it ‘The Fountain’ painted a mostache on Mona Lisa ‘L.H.O.O.Q.’

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Duchamp

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influenced by Freud’s emphasis on dreams

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Surrealism

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came up with surrealism; most famous piece ‘Persistence of Memory’

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Dali

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most important composer of 20th century

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Stravinsky

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pioneered ‘12 Tone’ Technique

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Schonberg

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federal republic in Germany

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Weimer Rebuplic

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took control of government same day Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated; largest party in Germany Prior to war

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Social Democratic Party

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group of communist led by Luxemburg and Liebknecht; took control of Berlin for a week

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Spartacists

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right wing parliamentary groups that formed after the war; became vangaurd for anti-communist repression

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Freikorps

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treaty by which Germanys army was limited to 100,000 men and Germany was declared responsible for the war and had therefore to pay reparations equal to all civilian damages caused by the war

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Treaty of Versailles

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commonly known as the “Guilt Clause” or the “War Guilt Clause”, is the first article in Part VIII, “Reparations” of the Treaty of Versailles; blamed Germany

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Article 231

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wrote ‘Economic Consequences of the Peace’

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Keynes

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what conservatives saw the signing of the Treaty of Versailles as

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“Stab in the back”

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1923;was a response to the failure of the German Weimar Republic under Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno to pay reparations in the aftermath of World War I

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Ruhr Crisis

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Allies announced Germany had to pay $34 billion in ______

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reparations

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led France to occupy the industrial Ruhr region of Germany

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Poincare

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restored Germany to normal status in the European community with the Locarno Pact

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Stresemann

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Adolf Hitler and Nazi party failed to overthrow the state of Bavaria and Hitler was put in jail for one year

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Beer Hall Putsch

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League of Nations plan that restructured Germany’s debt with U.S. Loans to Germany to pay back Britain and France who likewise paid back U.S.

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Dawes Plan

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1928; Germany and other European nations agreed to settle all disagreements peacefully

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Locarno Pact

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1928;renounced war as ‘illegal’ except for self-defense ; signed by 62 nations but had no real enforcement mechanism

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

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  1. 1918; result of women’s contribution in war; parliament gave women over thirty right to vote
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Representation of the People Act

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support of miners who feared dramatic drop in their low wages swept the country

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General Strike

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rose as the champion of the working classes and of greater social equality

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Labour Party

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should Ireland be given autonomy independence

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“Irish Question”

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extremist faction that gained prominence in Ireland

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Sinn Fein

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an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation

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Irish Republican Army

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Irish free state; part of British Commonwealth

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Northern Ireland

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may have triggered U.S. depression thar spread world wide

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Stock Market Crash

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caused by stock market crash (1929-1933)

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Great Depression

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Franklin Roosevelt and US sought to reform capatilism

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New Deal

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developed by Keynes; used to prop up economy

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Keynesian economis

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a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science

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Poincare

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