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Postwar social changes - Coggle Diagram
Postwar social changes
Changes to society
affordable cars, improeved telephones, andnow forms of media such as motion pictures and radio brought people around the world closer together than ever before
the roaring twenties
in the 1920s many radios tuned into the new sounds of jazz. in facts: the 1920s are often called the Jazz age
jazz musicians, like trumpeter Louis Armstrong and pianist Duke Ellington, took simple meoldies and improvides endless subtle variations in rhythm and beat
eurpeans embraced american culture, with its greater freedom and willingness to experiment
afterwar rebllious young people, disillusioned by the war, rejected the moral values and rules of the victorian age and chased after excitedment
during the 1920s new technologies helped create a ,ass culture shared by millions in the worlds developed countries
womens lives
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during war women help a wide range of jobs. although most women left those jobs when the war ended, their war work helped them win the vote in many western countires
few women were elected to public office, such as texas governor miriam ferguson or lady nancy astor, the first women to serve in the british parliament
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The New Literature
1920s, war novels, poetry, plays, and memoirs flowed off the presses
A Loss Of Faith
to many postwar writers, the war symbolized the moral breakdown of Western civilization
many of authors including Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, left the US and moved to Paris. when they moved they were called the lost generation. the label caught on and it refered to Steins literary friedns and their generation as a whole
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The Harlem Renaissance
during the 1920s an african american cultural awakening called the harlem renaissance began in Harlem (enighborhood in NYC that was home to many African Americans)
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James Weldom Johnson, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston explored the African American experience in their novels and essays