1. Between the Wars Postwar Social Changes Chapter 16 - Section 1

2. Do Now: Monday 4/1/13 What is the message of this political cartoon? Look closely at the ENTIRE picture.

4. Changes in Society • Young people rejected their parents values • WWI shattered the idea of optimism brought on by the Enlightenment • Reaction  society & culture changed rapidly in Europe & U.S.

5. The Roaring Twenties • New technologies = new culture • Affordable cars, • improved telephone communication, • media motion pictures & radio • JAZZ African American musicians combined Western harmonies with African rhythms. • Louis Armstrong Hot Five • Duke Ellington Cotton Club • The 1920s became known as the Jazz Age

6. Europe Recovers • U.S. experienced a “boom” after WWI • Europe embraced American culture • Nightclubs and jazz were symbols of freedom • Young people rejected moral values and rules of the Victorian Age • Flapper  symbol of rebellious Jazz Age • First were American • European’s soon adopted the fashion • flapper, Coco Chanel

7. U.S. Reacts to Jazz Age • Prohibition  1919-1933 • 18thAmendment • Keep people from the “negative effects of drinking” • Speakeasies and organized crime exploded • 1925  Scopes Trial in Tennessee • John T. Scopes taught evolution in his class

8. New Scientific Discoveries • Atomic bomb  Italian Enrico Fermi, American physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Teller • 1939 proposed to US government by Einstein • Government reacted slowly to atomic bomb • 1944  Manhattan Project in New Mexico • Split nuclei of atoms in two produces huge burst of energy • Penicillin  Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming • Freud  Psychoanalysis

9. Exit Ticket Explain THREE ways society changed after WWI.