The Age Of Anxiety 1914-1950

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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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critic of the rationalism of the enlightenment

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Nietzsche

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Thought socialism would come to power through a strike of all working people.

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Sorel

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A manifestation of anarchism

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Syndicalism

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Developed Freudian psychology-came up with “ID”

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Freud

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Driven by aggressive and pleasure seeking desires -> irrational people. By Freud.

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ID

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Poet. Spoke of the “cruelty 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. (all intangible things) only experience is worth analyzing.

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Logical positivism

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Wrote the decline of the west. Every culture experiences a life cycle of growth and decline.

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Spenger

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Wrote “the waste land” considered the most famous long poem of the 20th century. Showed a world of desolation.

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Eliot

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Wrote “all quiet on the western front”. Which is a powerful novel detailing the horrors of trench warfare during WWI.

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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. Most were atheist. Individual had to find own meaning.

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Existentialism

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Communist. Said life had no meaning and humans simply exist.

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Sartre

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Individuals had to find meaning in life my taking scion against things with which they disagree. Actions are from personal choices not religion.

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Camus

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Wrote “animal farm”. Which is about the russian revolution. Famous for dystopian novels.

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Orwell

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Write the “fountainhead”, “we the living”, and “anthem”

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Rand

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Wrote “lord of the flies”. Deals with the dark side of humanity and how cruelty and murder result among a group of youths. Book regards totalitarianism.

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Golding

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Popularized after WWII. Challenged long held ideas and led to uncertainty.

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“New physics”

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Developed a basis for quantum physics. Shook foundations of 19th century physics. Said matter and energy are the same thing.

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Planck

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Made theory of relativity. Challenged newtons ideas (E=mc^2)

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Einstein.

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Demonstrated the atom could be split

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Rutherford

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Made “principle of uncertainty”-its impossible to predict something’s behavior.

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Heinsberg

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Broke sharply with the past in his design of the fagus shoe factory in Germany. Represented a jump into the 20th century.

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Gropius

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Most important artist of the 20th century. Developed cubism.

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Picasso

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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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Women over 21 has the right to vote

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Representation of the people act

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Support it me was who feared a dramatic drop in their low wages. Failed.

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General strike

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Rose as a champion of the working classes of greater social equality

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Labour Party

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An extremist who gained prominence in Ireland

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Fein

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Promoted a civil war between the ira, the Black and Tan, and England's special occupation forces

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Irish Republican Army

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1921 London created the Irish free state from which ulster withdrew as part of the British commonwealth.

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Northern Ireland

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May have trigger us depression that spread world wide

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Stock market crash

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By Roosevelt. In the us sought to reform capitalism with increased government in the economy.

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New deal

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Developed by Keynes. Used after 1938 through public works and subsidizes.

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Keynesian economies

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Threat of fascism promoted coalition if republicans socialists communists and radicals. Led by Blum.

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Popular front.

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Sought to evoke emotion through non figural painting

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Kandinsky

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Attacked all accepted standards if art and behavior. Delighting in outrage conduct.

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Dadaism

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Painted the fountain. It's a urinal hat mocks traditional artistic standards.

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Duchamp

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Mona Lisa with a mustache

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LHOOQ

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Dali paints it (theme)

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Surrealism

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Paints a world of wild dreams. Also paints persistence of memory.

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Dali

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Most important composer of time. "Rite of spring"

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Stravinsky

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Pioneered 12 tone technique

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Schoenberg

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Took control of government in 1819

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Social Democratic Party

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A group of communists led by luxemberg and liebknecht. Took control of Berlin for a week.

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Spartacists

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Right-wing parliamentary group formed after the war. Became the vanguard of anti communist repression.

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Freikorps

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Represented a harsh dictated peace to be revised or repudiated as soon as possible.

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Treaty of Versailles.

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Placed the soul blame of the war on Germany

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Article 231

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Most significant economist of the 20th century. Criticized Versailles treaty and said it would damage European society. Wrote economic consequences of the peace.

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Keynes

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Conservatives including military elements saw the treaty if Versailles as this.

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Stab in the back. Diktat.

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The allies said Germany had to pay 34 million dollars because if the Versailles treaty

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Reparations

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led France when they occupied the industrial Ruhr region if Germany

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Poincare

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Restored Germany to Norman status in European community with the Locarno pact

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Stresemann

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Butler and the nazi party failed to overthrow the state Batavia and hitler was sent to jail for a year

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Beer hall putsch

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league of nations plans that restructured Germany's debt plan with us loans to Germany to pay back Britain and France who likewise paid us

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Dawes plan

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Germany and other European nations agrees to settle all disagreements peacefully

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Locarno pact