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- - - - Caused from economic changes
    - - Inspired by African art
      - Cubism transformed natural shapes into geometric forms
    - - link the world of dreams with real life, was inspired by Freud’s ideas
      - “beyond or above reality.”
  - - - developed by musicians, mainly African Americans, in New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicago
      - loose beat of jazz seemed to capture the new freedom of the age.
- - - - The automobile benefited from a host of wartime innovations and improvements—electric starters, air-filled tires, and more powerful engines. Cars were now sleek and brightly polished, complete with headlights and chrome-plated bumpers. In prewar Britain, autos were owned exclusively by the rich. British factories produced 34,000 autos in 1913. After the war, prices dropped, and the middle class could afford cars. By 1937, the British were producing 511,000 autos a year. Increased auto use by the average family led to lifestyle changes. More people traveled for pleasure. In Europe and the United States, new businesses opened to serve the mobile tourist. The auto also affected where people lived and worked. People moved to suburbs and commuted to work in the cities
    - - International air travel became an objective after the war. In 1919, two British pilots made the first successful flight across the Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Ireland. In 1927, an American pilot named Charles Lindbergh captured world attention with a 33-hour solo flight from New York to Paris. Most of the world’s major passenger airlines were established during the 1920s. At first only the rich were able to afford air travel. Still, everyone enjoyed the exploits of the aviation pioneers, including those of Amelia Earhart. She was an American who, in 1932, became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
    - - Media expanded during the interwar period with new technologies. It also became an important tool in advertising. Before the invention of the radio, people relied mostly on newspapers and print for news, sports, and entertainment. New media influenced culture, politics, and the economy. It brought people together and connected the world. Media such as radio and motion pictures were used to advertise new products and technologies, which influenced consumer spending. The media also provided an opportunity for the spreading of political propaganda and ideas.
        
        Guglielmo Marconi had conducted his first successful experiments with radio in 1895. However, the real push for radio development came during World War I. In 1920, the world’s first commercial radio station—KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—began broadcasting. Almost overnight, radio mania swept the United States. Every major city had stations broadcasting news, plays, and even live sporting events. Soon most families owned a radio.
        
        Other forms of media, such as motion pictures, became a major industry in the 1920s. Many countries, from Cuba to Japan, produced movies. In Europe, film was a serious art form. However, in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, where 90 percent of all films were made, movies were entertainment.
        
        The king of Hollywood’s silent screen was the English-born Charlie Chaplin, a comic genius best known for his portrayal of the lonely little tramp bewildered by life. In the late 1920s, the addition of sound transformed movies.
        
        The advances in transportation and communication that followed the war had brought the world in closer touch. Global prosperity came to depend on the economic well-being of all major nations, especially the United States.
- - - - Some writers and thinkers expressed their anxieties by creating disturbing visions of the present and the future, leaning more toward a modernist view of society.
        
        They became a part of new literary and artistic movements, such as expressionism and modernism.
  - - - He also championed the term nihilism, a philosophy that rejects moral principles and values and suggests that life is meaningless.
        
        His ideas attracted growing attention in the 20th century and had a great impact on politics in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.
- - - - after the war women have been granted the right to vote.
        
        they were able to drank and smoke in public