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Modernity and Modernism, 1900–1945 (Volume F)
Modernization
“Peaceful Coexistence”
World War I
Communist Russia
Treaty of Versailles
Nazis
The Final Solution
Great Depression
World War II
Modernism
• “crisis of reason”
• break with literary conventions
• Charles Darwin
• Karl Marx
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Sigmund Freud
• mobility
Scientific Advances
Poets
Novelists
Theater
Asia
Harlem Renaissance and Negritude
The World, 1913
Which event had arguably the greatest impact on the early twentieth century?
a. the Russian Revolution of 1917b. the Great Depressionc. the Second World Ward. the First World War
Test Your Knowledge
The League of Nations was founded as part of what treaty?
a. the Treaty of Versaillesb. the Armistice Treatyc. the Treaty of Utrechtd. the Treaty of the League of Nations
Test Your Knowledge
Modernist artists depended primarily on which of the following?
a. reasonb. experimentationc. scienced. tradition
Test Your Knowledge
Fiction that includes references to itself is called: __________ .
a. metafictionb. hyperfictionc. stream of consciousness fictiond. experiential fiction
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