in between wars matching Flashcards
Expatriates
people who left their native country to live elsewhere, usually Paris
The Lost Generation
Many American writers, musicians, and painters left the US to live in Europe
Weimar Republic
Germanys new democratic government set up in 1919
Dawes Plan
Provided $200 million loan from American banks to stabalize the German currency
Kellogg-Briand Pact
almost every country in the world pledged to “renounce war as an instrument of national policy”
surrealism
art movement that linked the world of dreams with real life, called upon the unconscious of the mind
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Theory of Relativity
while the speed of light is constant, other things that seem constant such as space and time, are not
Existentialism
Each person creates her own meaning in life through choices made and actions taken, no universal meaning of life
Sigmund Freud
Austrian Physician for patients with psychological problems, created theory about human mind
New Deal
government reform program in response to the Great Depression
Stock Market Crash
Price of stock plummeted to a new low, market collapsed
Treaty of Versailles
Made Germany pay war reparations and lower military amount
Charlie Chaplin
comedian
Charles Lindberg
first to fly the atlantic
Charles Lindberg
first to fly the atlantic
Albert Einstein
new ideas of space, time, energy, and matter
theory of relativity
Age of ANxiety
brutality of the war caused writers and philosophers to question ideas about reason and progress
Coalition Government
temporary alliance of several parties was needed to get majority vote in Parliament
