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Literature, Science, Suffrage and the Prelude to War.
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Literature, Science, Suffrage and the Prelude to War
Suffrage
• The right to vote• The word
"suffragette" was first used to describe women campaigning for the right to vote in 1906
Women’s Suffrage
• In 1920, the 19th amendment allowed all women over 21 to vote in the United States.
• In 1928, British law allowed all women over the age of 21 to vote in the United Kingdom.
Albert Einstein
• In 1916, Einstein published his paper on the general theory of relativity
Einstein
• In 1933 he renounced his citizenship for political reasons
• the Nazi's put a $5,000 bounty on his head
• He emigrated to America to take the position of Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton
• The Waste Land, 1922
• One of the most influential poetic work of the twentieth century
The Wasteland
• a long, complex poem about the psychological and cultural crisis that came with the loss of moral and cultural identity after World War I
• Published in 1925
• Actress, 1925• Photo by
Edward Steichen
Persistence of Memory, 1931, Salvador Dali
• Published in 1932
• Huxley is one of the most important literary and philosophical voices of the 20th Century
Spanish Civil War, 1936
• Francisco Franco led a coup d’etat
• His coalition of “Nacionales” was made up of right wing fascists, monarchists, conservatives, elites, and the Church
• They feared the proletarian (worker) uprisings and communism
Barcelona, 1936
Militia fighters, 1936
International Brigade
• The Republic was supported by unions, labor movements, and volunteers from around the world fighting fascism
• Ernest Hemingway joined the International Brigade
Ernest Hemingway
• Ernest Hemingway experienced war firsthand as a journalist
• he wrote dispatches from the frontlines
• He used war as a backdrop for many of his most memorable works.
• Franco was supported by the Hitler and the German Nazis and Mussolini and the Italian Fascists
• The Republicans were supported by Soviet Russia and Mexico
• France, Great Britain, the United States stayed out of the war
the Great Depression 1930- 1940
Dust Bowl 1930 - 1936
Guernica
• Hitler’s planes devastated the city of Guernica, a city that posed no military threat
Franco’s dictatorship
• The Spanish Republic was defeated by March of 1939.
• Franco’s conservative dictatorship lasted until his death in 1975
Refuges cross into France
Rape of Nanjing, 1937
The Rape of Nanjing
• In December of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army marched into China's capital city of Nanjing and
• Over the next six weeks, they murdered 300,000 (at least one half) of the civilians and soldiers.
• In the United States, reports published in the New York Times and Time Magazine, were greeted with skepticism from the American public.
• Most Americans had only a passing knowledge or little interest in Asia.
• Hitler was re-arming Germany
• Hitler was expanding the borders of the Nazi Reich through devious political maneuvers.