The Age Of Anxiety

Question 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

Answer 0

Forerunner of existentialism,
Rejected reason contempt of middle class morality

Question 1

Results of WWI

Answer 1

Unprecedented death,
Changed social order and governments in Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary,
Led to questioning of optimism

Question 2

Existentialism

Answer 2

Reason and science are incapable of providing true insight,
God, reason and progress are myths
Sartre, Nietzsche, Camus

Question 3

Albert Einstein

Answer 3

Challenged traditional concepts of reality,
Discoveries laid the foundation for nuclear physics,
Everything is “relevant”

Question 4

Surrealism

Answer 4

World of the unconscious mind revealed through dreams,

Expressed through strange symbols

Question 5

Bauhaus architecture

Answer 5

Architecture should be functional above all,

Relied on straight lines

Question 6

The Versailles treaty was seen as a what to Germans

Answer 6

Diktat or dictated peace

Question 7

The Versailles treaty was rejected by whom?

Answer 7

The United States in favour of an isolation policy

Question 8

The Dawes plan

Answer 8

Charles Dawes’ plan to reestablish a sound German currency, post WWI
American loans to Germany