Lesson 5: The West After World War I
Sigmund Freud
Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
The Lost Generation
Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe
Jazz Age
Name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz-a new type of American music that combined African rhythms, blues, and ragtime
Marie Curie
Notable female Polish/French chemist and physicist around the turn of the 20th century. Won two nobel prizes. Did pioneering work in radioactivity.
disarmament
Reduction of armed forces and weapons
Alexander Fleming
Scottish scientist, Discovered penicillin in 1928
Prohibition
a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States from 1920 to 1933
Psychoanalysis
a method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders
Harlem Renaissance
an African American cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem
Kellogg-Briand Pact
an international agreement, signed by almost every nation in 1928, to stop using war as a method of national policy
Dada
artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers
Surrealism
artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious mind
Miriam "Ma" Ferguson
first female governor of Texas. First woman elected to office in the United States.
Flapper
in the United States and Europe in the 1920s, a rebellious young woman
Maginot Line
massive fortifications built by the French along their border with Germany in the 1930s to protect against invasion
Albert Einstein
published his theories of relativity in 1905 and 1916, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. These ideas challenged long-held beliefs regarding the nature of the universe.
abstract art
style of art composed of lines, colors, and shapes, sometimes with no recognizable subject matter at all
Roaring Twenties
the decade of the 1920's which got this nickname because of the times prosperity and excitement