Uncertainty in Modern Thought
Modern Art and Music
Movies and Radio
The Search for Peace and Political Stability
The Great Depression (1929-1939)
100
This rejected most of the concerns of traditional philosophy, from the existence of God to the meaning of happiness, as nonsense and hot air.
What is Logical empiricism?
100
Buildings of this style should serve, as well as possible, the purpose of which they were made and Franco-Swiss genius Le Corbusier insisted that “a house is a machine for living in.”
What is functionalism?
100
The national broadcasting network that Great Britain's parliament set up as an independent, public corporation to supported the public’s imagination.
What is British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)?
100
It represented harsh, dictated peace, that many countries said needed to be revised. Hint: end of WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
100
This is what WPA stands for.
What is Works Progress Administration?
200
In Freud's idea on human behavior the primitive, irrational unconscious part is called this.
What is id?
200
A style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see if they just caught a glimpse of it.
What is impressionism?
200
American directors and business people then set up “movie factories,” at first in this city.
What is New York?
200
This country did not want Germany to pay the entire reparations they were suppose to due to German trade and not wanting war.
What is Britain?
200
In October of 1929 this triggered the collapse into the Great Depression.
What is the U.S. stock market crash?
300
Serious novelists used the stream of consciousness technique to explore this.
What is the psyche?
300
Name one of the post impressionism artists that were discussed in Chapter 28.
What is Van Gogh, Gaugin, or Cazanne?
300
By the late 1930s more than three out of every four households in both democratic Great Britain and doctoral Germany had at least one of this.
What is mass-produced radio?
300
In this country there was a rise of the Labor Party lead by Ramsay MacDonald.
What is Great Britain?
300
These two countries had Social Democrats as the largest political party.
What is Sweden and Norway?
400
In the years before 1914, some theologians, especially this, had felt the need to interpret Christian doctrine and the bible so that they did not seem to contradict science, evolution, and common sense.
What is Protestants?
400
A 20th century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of unconscious mind.
What is Surrealism?
400
The king of the “silver screen” in the 1920s.
What is Charlie Chaplin?
400
"My struggle"
What is the English translation of Mein Kampf?
400
This country was less industrialized and more isolated from the world economy. Therefore the Great Depression came late here and once it hit it stayed and stayed.
What is France?
500
The great French writer who wrote the "Remembrance of Things Past" that recalled bittersweet memories of childhood and youthful love and tried to discover their innermost meaning.
What is Marcel Proust?
500
A riot almost happened at the opening of this ballet because there was pulsing dissonant rhythms from the orchestra pit and a earthy representations of lovemaking by the dancers. It seemed shocking, almost a poring graphic enactment of primitive Fertility rite.
What is The ballet “The Rite of Spring” ?
500
The man who invented the radio.
What is Guglielmo Marconi?
500
Countries that accepted the Dawes Plan. Hint: There are three.
What is France, Germany, and Britain?
500
What three political parties formed an alliance called the Popular Front?
What is Communists, Socialist, and Radicals?
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