Modernization Era
- Modernization Era
- New Means of Transportation
- Steamship, Railroad, Automobile, airplane
- Telegraph and Telephone
- Allowed communication instantly
- World population more than tripled
- Infant Mortality Declined
- Weapons became more powerful
- Bloodiest Century- 200 million people died in wars, revolutions and genocides
- Radioactivity, X-Rays, Quantum Theory
- Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- World War I: 1914-1918
- 15 Million Deaths
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)finalized the end of the war
- Found League of Nations
- Great Depression: 1929
- Started with stock market crash
- New Deal- Public Works spending, social security
- World War II: 1939-1945
- Nazi's exterminated 6 million Jews
- U.S. Dropped atomic bombs on Japan starting the nuclear age
- Modernism
- Linked political crises with a crisis of representation
- broke away from standard plots, verse forms, narrative techniques and genre boundaries
- inclusion of taboo subjects, social roles
Hello Patrick,
ReplyDeleteWow, I want to first of say that I was really impressed with the style in which you organized your notes on this piece of fiction. The breakdown was well mapped out, and because it is the historical context that you are dealing with, I think that this method is probably the most effective. I think I may give this style of note taking a try when I get to another historical piece. Awesome job Patrick!