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Johnny Mendez 9a2
Age of Uncertainty
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During the aftermath of WWI, the world was recovering from massive attacks and damages through out the war years. During this time things started changing for the better, advancements in certain fields such as technology and science, and for the worse, events and leaders (Hitler, Mussolini) leading to World War II. People were experiencing new ideas that revolutionaries such as Einstein’s theories, Picasso’s art and Gandhi’s peace movements that were having, and proposing to the world. Ordinary people felt confused by these things, maybe even fearful and didn’t know how to respond to these ideas and the changing environment around them. Historians knew this era as “The Age of Uncertainty”. Lasting 16 years, this time started after WWI (1919) and lead up to the beginning of WWII (1935).
After WWI most of the world was in, one could say a depressed or melancholy state. The funding for the war left some countries totally destroyed both economically and politically. In Germany for example, inflation was a big problem, it went to a point where people burned their marks for warmth, instead of trying to buy oil for heat, they couldn’t even afford.
France, during the 1920’s to the 1930’s was forming a new taste for advancement, and wanted to take a different path on reconstructing their society. “ The Jazz Age in France” was a decade where many artists that weren’t getting recognition for their work, came to France and exposed their talent to the western powers. Among the artists were Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, E.E Cummings and Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker was an African-American jazz performance artist who sang, danced and acted. The fact that she was African-American gave people a different perspective on her. During this era, racism was still very much alive, and was evident in the way people...
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