DO NOW:

What was the name of the treaty that

ended WWI?

Who wrote the treaty (the Big Four

countries) and who got punished?
 POSTWAR
DEVELOPMENTS
SECTION 15.1
Who is this guy?
It’s Albert
Einstein!

Smartest guy
ever, right?
But why do
people say that?
Albert Einstein:

•Special Relativity
•General Relativity
•Einstein’s ideas
challenged the physics
of Galileo and Newton.
Special Relativity
You don’t need to
understand
relativity.

Few people do.

I can barely spell it.

 E  mc 2

energy = mass x the square of the

speed of light
This meant that matter could be
transformed into energy.
A whole lot of energy.
This discovery convinced scientists that
there might be a way they could
release this energy – and the world
would never be the same again.
Sigmund Freud

•Founder of
modern
psychology

•Believed most of
the human mind
was on the
unconscious level
Sigmund Freud

•Developed psychoanalysis. Patients

talked through their problems –
bringing things to the surface.

• Freud’s ideas challenged how people

thought about the mind – people were
irrational, they didn’t make sense.
 Changing Society
• New Ideas
• New ways of thinking
• Women’s role changes
(Women’s Suffrage!)
• Women abandon
restrictive clothing in
favor of shorter, looser
clothes.
• Women seek new careers
in medicine, science,
education, journalism etc.
The Arts

Even before the war began, there were

big changes going on in the arts.

Paintings in the nineteenth century

were realistic, or at least tries to be
pretty.
Cubism
• Pablo Picasso
and Georges
Braque founded
cubism in 1907.

Picasso, Woman
Playing Mandolin
Cubism
Natural, organic
shapes became
geometric.

Georges Braque,
Violin and
Candlestick
Cubism
Different views and
even time was
shown on canvas.

Marcel Duchamp,
Nude Descending a
Staircase
Surrealism
After the war, artists tried to seek
deeper meaning. Freud’s ideas
influenced these artists.

Surrealism means “above or beyond

reality.” These paintings are not
meant to be realistic.
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory
Rene Magritte,
La Reproduction
Interdite
Yves Tanguy, Reply to Red
Luis Bunuel, Le Chien Andalou
 Jazz
• Jazz music develops
• Dancing
• Large bands
• Loose form of expression
• Listen to a few clips:
Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring

Arnold Schoenberg, Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, Op. 41

Fats Waller, Ain’t Misbehavin’

Louis Armstrong, When the Saints Go Marching In

Django Reinhardt, Sweet Georgia Brown