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- - - - 1927 - Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight from New York to Paris, it took 33 hours
      - 1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo
      - 1919 - British pilots made the first successful Atlantic flight
      - 1920s - First passenger airlines opened
  - - - Radio becomes major entertainment
        
        1920 - First broadcasting channel in Pittsburgh, leads to "radio mania"
        
        Soon almost every major city had a broadcasting station and every family owned a radio in their home
        
        1895 - First successful radio experiments
        
        Radio History
    - - Movies = Major Industry
        
        Hollywood produces 90% of films made during this time
        
        The first "movie stars" appear, ex: Charlie Chaplin
        
        1920s - Moving pictures boom
        
        Moving Pictures in the 1920s
      - Value
  - - - From 1913 to 1937, Britain's automobile production had increased by 1500% making cars sleeker, but more affordable.
      - People began to commute for pleasure, auto business boomed, people moved to cities.
      - Wartime production brought new auto advancements including: air-filled tires, electric starters, powerful engines
      - Supply & Demand
      - Automoblie Industry History
- - - - How was surrealism connected with Freud’s ideas?
        
        They tried to use their subconscious to help them paint
      - Expressionist painters like Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky used bold colors and distorted or exaggerated forms
      - Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso founded Cubism, a form of art where objects are transformed into geometric shapes
        
        http://www.theartstory.org/movement-cubism.htm
      - Surrealism was created, an art form that takes real objects and gives them a dreamlike appearance
      - Change
  - - - They went against traditional harmonies and musical scales
    - - https://www.allmusic.com/artist/igor-stravinsky-mn0000364751/biography
    - - Developed by musicians from New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicago
- - - - Women abandoned restrictive clothing and hairstyles. They wore loser garments and had there hair bobbed.
        
        They also wore makeup and drive cars and drank and smoked in public.
        
        Margret sanger and Emma Goldman risked arrest by speaking in favor of birth control.
        
        As women sought new careers the numbers of women in medicine education journalism and other professions increased.
        
        What goals were women seeking in the 1920’s? They were seeking changing in there roles
        
        Leadership
      - How did the changes in women’s clothes reflect their changing roles? having more freedom on what they wear gives them more freedom in general.
    - - World War I had disrupted traditional social patterns.
        
        New ideas and ways of life led to a new kind of individual freedom during the 1920s.
        
        Young people especially were willing to break with the past and experiment with modern values.
        
        Conflict
        
        Women roles
    - - Women’s Roles Change The independent spirit of the times showed clearly in the changes women were making in their lives.
        
        heir work in the war effort was decisive in helping them win the right to vote
        
        . After the war, women’s suffrage became law in many countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Sweden, and Austria.
      - Women in the 20s
- - - - Scientists found that the speed of light is constant no matter what direction it is moving relative to Earth.
        
        Einstein theorized in 1905 that space and time, unlike light, were not constant.
        
        Space and time can changed when measured relative to an object moving close to the speed of light (186,000 miles per second).
        
        Einstein's new theory was called the theory of relativity because it dealt with relative motion.
        
        Einstein's theory changed how people viewed the world and went against Newton's ideas of a fixed universe conforming to the laws of motion and gravity.
        
        Why were Einstein’s ideas upsetting to many people?
        
        It challenged old scientific ideas that people had accepted as fact. He challenged the way we viewed the universe and reality. People didn't want anything to change and didn't accept his ideas.
        
        Values & Beliefs: Einstein's theory of relativity went against many people's beliefs about the universe, making it unpopular at first.
      - Biography of Einstein
    - - Sigmund Freud was a psychologist who crafted a theory about the human mind from his experience with working with people.
        
        He thought that the human mind was irrational and unreasonable.
        
        He called the irrational part of the brain the unconscious mind.
        
        A number of drives existed in the unconscious mind, which included pleasure-seeking drives that the concuss mind was unaware of.
        
        Consequence: People started questioning their mind, which was a consequence of Freud's ideas.
        
        Consequence: Sigmund Frued's ideas about the unconscious mind consequently made people doubt reason.
        
        In what way were Freud’s ideas as revolutionary as Einstein’s?
        
        Both Freud and Einstein's ideas changed how we look at important things. Einstein changed how we look at reality while Freud changed how we look at the human mind. Both of their ideas were revolutionary.
      - Biography of Freud