Interwar Years/Interbellum

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  • Interbellum
    • 1918-1939
    • Gender
      • The Flapper
        • Short Hair and Shirt dresses
        • many people were dying so young girls decided to live, live fast die young attitude
      • America: women got the vote in 1920
      • Uk: women got the right to vote in 1918 but not fully until 1928
        • 1919 the Sex Disqualification Removal Act
      • 1920s marked change for women
        • women allowed into most fields of work
    • Politics
      • Class divisions
        • Rise of Labour, First government in 1924
      • Russian Revolution
        • The Red Scare
          • 6000 communists arrested in one day
        • Rise of radical movements and dictators
          • Rise of Nazism
            • Spanish Civil war 1936-39, far right
      • Loss of monarchies- German, austto-hungarian and Ottoman
      • Rise of Nazism
        • Spanish Civil war 1936-39, far right
      • British Empire under threat
        • 1930 Gandhis salt march, india declared independence
        • New ideas and schools of thought
    • Culture
      • Roaring 20s
        • Jazz age
          • Music of the youth
          • Jazz originated in  New Orleans amongst the Black community
          • Dance clubs emerged
          • Became associated with Speakeasies and immorality
        • Moral drift after ww1
      • Prohibition
        • Politics
          • Class divisions
            • Rise of Labour, First government in 1924
          • Russian Revolution
            • The Red Scare
              • 6000 communists arrested in one day
            • Rise of radical movements and dictators
            • Loss of monarchies- German, austto-hungarian and Ottoman
            • British Empire under threat
              • 1930 Gandhis salt march, india declared independence
              • New ideas and schools of thought
          • 1920-33
          • alcoholism, family violence and political corruption associated with alcohol and led to prohibition
        • First ever talking film was 1927
          • Beginning of Celebrity culture
            • Roaring 20s
              • Jazz age
                • Music of the youth
                • Jazz originated in  New Orleans amongst the Black community
                • Dance clubs emerged
                • Became associated with Speakeasies and immorality
              • Moral drift after ww1
            • Wealthy socialites had there actions reported in tabloids
            • Chaplin, CoCo Chanel
          • Art became more accessible for the common man
            • Beginning of Celebrity culture
              • Wealthy socialites had there actions reported in tabloids
              • Chaplin, CoCo Chanel
        • Lost Generation
          • generation who were teens during the war who felt disillusioned with america
          • Death of the american dream
          • Critiscism of the frivolous lives of the wealthy
          • Eliot, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald
        • Expressionism
          • Surrealism
          • Modernism
          • Expression of emotions rather than physical reality
        • Harlem Renaissance, people started to take black art seriously
      • Economics
        • Roaring 20s
          • Economic Prosperity
          • Rise of industry and technology
        • Great Depression
          • Mass unemployment and poverty
            • 1936 Jarrow men march to london to highlight poverty and unemployment
          • October 1929 Wall street crash
        • Post WW1 economic turmoil

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