1. Postwar Social Changes Chapter 16, Section 1

2. The Roaring Twenties

3. Flappers

4. Women’s Lives • Flappers were highly visible, but actually a very small percentage. Most women saw limited progress in the postwar years. • While some women found careers, the home was still the most important job. Labor-saving devices became common in middle-class homes in the 1920s

5. Washing machines, vacuum cleaners, and canned foods made chores less time-consuming

7. Iron Jawed Angels

8. Emancipation • Women pursued careers – sports, arts, pilots, newspaper reporters, novelists, etc– but most professions were still dominated by men.

9. Scopes (“Monkey”) Trial

10. Prohibition

11. Speakeasies

12. Trends in Literature • A loss of faith(T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land; Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) • Many authors moved to Paris (Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald) • Gertrude Stein: “The Lost Generation” • Virginia Wolfe: Mrs. Dalloway • Finnegan’s Wake: James Joyce

13. The Great Gatsby

14. Harlem Renaissance

16. Josephine Baker

17. Billie Holiday

18. Jazz Age

19. Scientific Discoveries

20. Albert Einstein

21. Enrico Fermi • Nuclear physicist • Quantum theory • Manhattan project

22. Alexander Fleming

23. Sigmund Freud

24. New Trends in Art

25. New Trends in Art

26. Abstract Art

27. Dadaism

28. Art Deco

29. Art Deco

30. Surrealism • Automatic Drawing & Automatic Painting

31. Surrealism • Frottage

32. Surrealism • Grottage