Download Europe Between the Two World Wars

Europe Between the
Two World Wars
1920s-1930s
• 5 Big Changes
Communism in Russia
• Nikolai Lenin—Leader of the Bolshevik
Revolution
• [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxHUeH
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• Joseph Stalin—He became leader of the
USSR from 1922-1952, a man who was
responsible for roughly 40 million deaths.
• [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TXHL7Fs
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Fascism in Italy
• Definition—A government ruled by
a dictator who controls the lives of
the people. People cannot
disagree with the government due
to the importance of nationalism.
• Benito Mussolini—Fascist dictator in
Italy
Nazism in Germany
• German Fascism = Nazism
• Adolf Hitler—Nazi Germany’s leader
• [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q
Ckn5bu8GgM
Einstein & Science
• Albert Einstein—He was born in Germany in 1879,
but revolutionized the field of physics, correcting
some of the errors of Isaac Newton (who was,
nevertheless, also a brilliant physicist). He was
visiting the U.S. when Hitler came to power in
1933, and became an American citizen in 1940.
• Theory of Relativity
• E = mc2
• [Video, sk 2:50-3:40] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64WpGhpjkHg
Expressionism (Painting)
• “I am unable to distinguish
between the feeling I have for
life and my way of expressing it.”
– Henri Matisse
• Definition: Expressionism reflects
the artist’s personal vision of life,
while adding emotion.
• [Van Gogh]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC2VriINKLU
• [Video, sk 1:12-19]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6jEubs8DM
Cubism (Painting)
• Pablo Picasso (Spain’s
greatest painter)
• Definition: Cubism used
odd-looking shapes and
forms to create an
abstract picture
• [Video]
https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=V15rXg1nJ6
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Music in the ‘20s and ’30s
• Jazz—This genre of music was born in New Orleans, LA,
which combined a “melting pot” of cultures to produce
music that was spontaneous and based on feeling.
• [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6tW54kRfHs
• Polytonality—Developed by Russian composer Igor
Stravinsky and Austrian Arnold Schonberg, this means to
play two different keys at once. It created somewhat
depressing-sounding music.
• [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkIAVGlfWk
Literature in the ‘20s and ’30s
• Themes—Much of the literature in the 1920s
and 1930s had themes of hopelessness,
pessimism, and pacifism. Writers were living
in the aftermath of a brutal war, and could
not make sense of things like hope and
happiness.
• “One by one they were all becoming
shades. Better pass boldly into that other
world, in the full glory of some passion,
than fade and wither dismally with age.”
- James Joyce