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1. NVC

2. HOT ROC: Treaty of Versailles

3. Post-WWI Art and Culture

4. Changing Governments…

Essential Question: How did people view the world after World War I?Homework: Cornell Notes pg. 433-435

HOT ROC: Treaty of Versailles

• On the following slide, you will see a political cartoon on the Treaty of Versailles…1. What images, symbols, and characters do you

see?2. What is the overall message of the cartoon? How

does the artist view the Treaty of Versailles?

HOT ROC: Treaty of Versailles

Aftermath of WWI

• The Cost of War– Over 16 million dead– Britain 4.4 Billion dollars

in debt to U.S.– France 8 Billion dollars in

debt to U.S.– Germany 38 Billion

dollars in debt to Europe

• The world “lost its innocence”

Burned into Cultural Memory

“A generation of innocent young men, their heads full of high ideals like Honor, Glory and England, went off to war to make the world safe for democracy. They were slaughtered in stupid battles planned by stupid generals. Those who survived were shocked, disillusioned and embittered by their war experiences, and saw that their real enemies were not the Germans, but the old men at home who had lied to them. They rejected the values of the society that had sent them to war, and in doing so separated their own generation from the past and from their cultural inheritance”

-- Samuel Hynes

A Changing Society1885 1919

A Changing Society

1873 1921

A Changing Society

1913 1927

A Changing Society

1890“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, “A whole I planned, Youth shows but half: trust God: see all, nor be afraid!”—Robert Browning

1922“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Artists Rebel

• Dadaism: bold colors and distorted images• Cubism: sharp angles and edges, images

appear broken– Pablo Picasso

• Surrealism: eerie, unrealistic, and dream-like– Salvador Dali

• Existentialism– “The Lost Generation”

The Second Coming

Fallen Empires

• End of WWI characterized by the fall of empires

• Populist governments rise to take their place– Populist: a political

ideology that favors “the people” over “the elite” and desires social change

• Russia is the first empire to have a populist revolution in 1917

Vocab, Key Terms, Questions, Dates

Title: PG. 433-435

Summary/Analysis