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The Modern AgeHistorical Background
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What does
Modern mean? Period from 1914-1945 Before World War I:
optimism
New tecnolog! "ol#ing social pro$lems
%fter World War I: optimism sattered
People started to retink wat itmeant to $e a uman $eing&
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The Great War
WWI: #er! $lood!
'renc warfare
(acine guns de#eloped )*'" of deat
+&"& ,oined %llies in 191
"aw ow $ad war could reall! $e .I Ha#e a /ende0#ous wit eat2
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%lan "eeger
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The RoaringTwenties
%ttitude of part!ingafter war ended in 1913 reat econom!
Building of sk!scrapers
Proi$ition $ootleggingand organi0ed crime
/adio6 ,a00 music
Holl!wood
.'r!ing to drown out teremem$ered sound ofe7ploding $om$s and
teorror of deat2
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The Great
Depression *cto$er 84t6 1989 stock marketcrased
B! 1986 18 million %mericans 85; ofwork force< were
unemplo!ed&
Bread lines and soup kitcens
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The New Deal
Passed $! =/ reformedand strengtened econom!
o#ernment-funded pro,ectsdams and $ridges< meantW*/>?
Helped dig us out of te
epression
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World War II
Isolationism %mericanswanted to sta! out
ecem$er t6 1941 attackon Pearl Har$or
%tomic $om$s de#elopedand used elped end war
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To sum up
Post WWI: optimism left$eind
/oaring 'wenties: self-indulgence and e7tra#agance
reat epression: intenseardsip
WWII: usered in %tomic %ge
