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Frederich Nietzche 

- Questioned the belief of progress, logic, and rationalism                                                               -Believed Western Civilization was in decline

- Nihilism


100

Logical Positivism

Humans are free, life is full of possibilities 

100

Ruhr Crisis

Germany had to pay, they couldn't, so Ruhr people stopped working and France and Belgium stormed

100

Functionalism in Architecture 

Building to serve a purpose, Bauhuas

100

Modern Girl

Women were smoking, voting, don't need men

200

Marie Curie

-She and Planck proved atoms were not the building blocks of nature

-Discovered neutrons, protons, electrons

200

Existentialism

-Belief that humans can overcome the meaninglessness of life through individual action

- Heidegger, Sartre, Camus

200

Kellog-Briandt Pact

Every state that signed had to stop and give up on war

200

Cubism

Breaking down art into lines and shapes, Picasso

200

Bauhaus

School for art and architecture
300

Sigmund Freud 

Id:irrational unconscious controlled by sexual and aggressive intentions

 Ego: conscious, controls what we do

 Super Ego: moral values

300

Nihilism 

belief that life is pointless

300

Great Depression 

Started Oct 29, 1929

Stock Market crashed

Lasted 10 years, was horrible all around the world

300

Dadaism

- Outrageous art that proved human nature is crazy

300

New Deal

WPA, Social Security, created eight million jobs

400
Meynard Keyes

If Germany fell, all of Europe will, lower Ger reparations

400

Dawes Plan

U.S. loans $ to Germany, Germany pays off debt to Allies, Allies pay debt back to U.S.

400

Surrealism

Dreams and complex symbols, melty clocks
400

Welfare Socialism 

Scandinavian solution to GD

people paid higher taxes but gov provided stuff for them like school and health care

500

Stressemann

Led Germany to lessen tensions with France, helped them recover econ.

500

Black Tuesday

The day the GD started and stock market fell

500

Expressionism

Life is more to it then what you see, Van Gogh and Matisse

500

Popular Front

France communist and socialist, failed cus of inflation