The Elusive Search for Stability in Inter War Period Flashcards
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What is the post WW1 pessimism?
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- Discredited long beliefs in Europe
- The decline of Western Civilization being civilized
- The belief emerged that all societies go through a cycle
- questions notion of progress
- questioning notion of human “reasons” and “objectivity”
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What is the Uncertainty Principle?
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- Idea emerges out of post war Pessimism in Germany
- Physicist
- Impossible to state the position and velocity of a subatomic particle at same time
- Atomic universe indeterminate; can only speak of probabilities
- Challenged long held assumption on truth
- Shaped rational of our understanding of other subjects
3
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What is the historical significance of Sigmund Freud?
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- Late 1800’s to early 1900’s
- Austrian neurogist and develops psychoanalysis
- Discovers unconscious metal process as governing metal behavior
- Influences and builds to the idea of people are not rationale and the post war pessimism
- Shakes the foundation of the Enlightenment Era of people are rational with pessimism culture
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What is the historical significance of John Maynard Keynes?
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- Late 1800’s to early 1900’s
- British economist
- Ideas in economics affected practice of modern macroeconomics
- He developed the business cycle, and business boom and then they bust
- Leads and influences the post-war pessimism culture trend
5
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What creates economics and social instability after the Great War?
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- The cycle of Westerners allies borrowed money from U.S., Germany owed money to Western allies, and U.S. helped Germany.
- A tangled finical system and bad agricultural harvests
- 1929 is the world wide Economic collapse
- US and Germany are hit the worst.
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What is the historical significance of Oswald Spengler?
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- Late 1880’s
- Book decline of the West
- He proposed based on New Theory, that lifespan of civilizations is limited
- Further contributed to the post-war pessimism and counter Enlightenment
