Society and Tradition destroyed, people sought new answers to the world’s questions.

Albert Einstein-1921

Theory of Relativity states that time and space can

change with it is measured against a constant such as

the speed of light.

Sigmund Freud

• Ego• Super Ego• Id

• Founder of psychoanalysis and believed in the interpretation of dreams and the unconscious.

Revolution in Arts

• Expressionist painters…• Wassily Kandinsky

Edvar Munch

Paul Klee

Surrealism• Salvador Dali

Cubism• Pablo Picasso

• Georges Braques

JazzFirst truly American music which

swept around the world…

Women’s lives change…

• Before WWI…

After WWI

Flappers

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7neA

• Rebels of their day who changed the role of women in society and spearheaded the suffragette movement.

Weimar Republic• Post WWI saw a devastated Germany which

would continue to suffer due to Article 231 or the “War Guilt” clause.

• 1st President

• Friedrich Ebert• 1919-1925

• 2nd President

• Paul von Hindenberg• 1925-1934

The unstable government was not able to right a wrong economy…

• People were starving…

Inflation