History Department      

History 309 – Contemporary Europe – September 21, 2005  

EUROPE BETWEEN THE WARS:

POLITICS & HIGH CULTURE

(W: Ch. 6 & 7)  

Note:   Here’s an oddity: European politics in the 1920s was largely a tedious and unimaginative business – yet – European culture flourished.   A “leaden time” politically, the ‘20s were “golden years” culturally.    

I.                    TERMS TO KNOW.  Be sure you can define the following:

From W & H:

  1. French occupation of the Ruhr (1923)
  2. Dawes Plan
  3. Aristide Briand
  4. Gustav Stresemann
  5. Treaty of Locarno
  6. Young Plan
  7. Easter Rebellion (1916)
  8. Stanley Baldwin
  9. Paul von Hindenburg
  10. War Debts – Reparations Nexus
  11. “Weakening of Colonial Authority”
  12. “New Authoritarianism”
  13. Relativity (Einstein)
  14. Complementarity (Bohr)
  15. Indeterminacy (Heisenberg)
  16. Max Weber & Emile Durkheim
  17. Bertrand Russell & Ludwig Wittgenstein
  18. Virginia Woolf
  19. Marcel Proust
  20. Franz Kafka
  21. Thomas Mann
  22. James Joyce
  23. Arnold Schoenberg
  24. H. Matisse
  25. Picasso
  26. W. Gropius

 II.                 QUESTIONS.    

  1. Think for a moment about politics in the 1920s.  Versailles seems to have been a failure; politics during the 1920s seemed to be a failure too.  Why, do you think, was there such a “failure of imagination”?
  2. Consider the “high culture” of the 1920s.  What do you think were the one or two key ideas that characterized this vibrant culture? 

 

 

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