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Mass culture: Radio and Movies.
Marconi discovered the wirelees radio waves.
Motion pictures began in 1890', but full length featured didn´t camen onto the end of the WW1 -
Artistic and Literacy Trends
Many of the art that was made at these time ilustrated frustration but also surrealism.
At this time abstract art became very popular.
Photomontage started. -
More Goods, More Leisure
The eight-hour day have been stablished for workers.
Profesional sporting events were an important part of mass leisure.
Even have trips was one the favorite activities, these were more fecuently in holidays.
These activities were more ways so that nation could totaly control their people -
Female Function in the WW2
In the beginning of the war the female participated in traditional task such as cook, office workers, messengers, warehouse keepers and telephone operators.
But when the war expansion women occupied more technicla works llike operate coast artillery, torpedo services, civilian population defence -
Mobilization of People: Germany
With streets quiet people and soldiers marching, feared a disaster after a bad experience in the WW1,
In the middle of the war the situation of germanyy seems to get worse, but when they turned their eyes to women everything went better -
Bombing cities: Britain.
German forces bombed London.
Thounsands of civilians were killed or injured, but the londoners' moral remained high -
The atomic bomb
the bomb was created by Albert Einstein.
This proyect cost 2 billion dollars, and the work of 600,000 people.
the main base to make this bomb was in Manhattan. -
Mobilization of people: Japan
The goverment tried to control prices, wages, labor and resources.
Many young people were listing them, to be volunteers for giving their lives for their country -
Bombing of cities: Germany
A bombing in Dresden created a firestorm, that may have killed thounsand of people and let hundreds of inhabits and refugees.
In total around half a million civilians died. -
Mobilzation of People: Soviet Union.
The Soviets won the "battle of machines" producing 78,000 tanks, 98,000 artillery pieces.
Women started to played a major rol in the war -
Mobilization of people: U.S.
They became the arsenal of allied powers, producing lots of military equipment.
African American moved to the South searching for a job, but they white people were attacting very much in every place. -
The Tehran Conference.
Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill met in Tehran.
This conference had the purpose to make alliances so that Germany acepted the end of the war agreeding to a partition of postwar Germany -
The Yalta Conference
The three powers faced at Yalta, but now one of the main things to talk was the creation of the United Nations Organization and also to divide Germany in four zones. -
Postdam Conference
Truman demanded free elections to Eastern Europe, and Stalin accepted because that way Eastern Europe wuold be under communist control.
Nazi leaders, Germans, italians, japanesee, were condemned at trial in Nurembreg. -
Bombing in cities: Japan
The bomber nickname was: Engola Gay.
This bomb turn to ashes about 5 square miles.
70,000 buildings flattened.
140,000 habitants died, but in 1950 anothers 50,000 people died by the radiation.
The bombs were dropped in Horoshima and the other in Nagasaki. -
Unesco and Traditional Music
The purpose of these organization is education, conservation of the cultural heritage, take concern about the rescue of traditional music.
The idea of these organization came fron the ONU. -
Rivalry in Europe
The U.S. and Great Britain belived that it would be better if the Eastern Europe nations chose their goverment.
The Soviet Union opposed to the Western Europe plan, because they were scared that the East became anti-Soviet.
A civil war started in Grece -
A New Struggle
Many in the West thought Soviet policy was a part of world wide Communist Conspirancy.
Europe was divided in two sides. -
The Truman Doctrine
It is a politic expresion wich means contain de comunism, while the Cold War.
This plan or doctrine consisted in providing money to Grece so that The Soviet Union didn't conquer them. -
Marshall Plan
The main idea was that engaged in fighting communist agression, because the U.S. belived that communist was succussful in countries problems.
The Soviet Union responded to the Marshall plan in 1949 by founding the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) -
Division of Germany
This country was divided in 4 zones, so that the U.S., Great Britain,Soviet Union, and France had a piece this nation.
In Feb. of 1948 theU.S, Great Britain and France were planing to unify their pieces so that they would create an East and a West side.
The West Germany was called: Federal Republic of Germany.
The East Germany was called: German Democratic Republic. -
New Military Alliances
North Atlantic Treaty Organization( (Nato): Belguim, Luxemburgo, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and iceland (This was created in April 1949).
Warsaw Pact: Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania. -
The Arms Race
The U.S. and the Soviet Union Compited to see who had better nuclear arsenal.
The Soviet Union send the first man make satellite the Sputnik 1 -
The War Industry in Times of Peace
The U.S. have the biggest and the most powerful army in the world.
But the technological advances in some cases it have been used to help health. -
Vietnam and the Domino Theory
This theory said that if the Communists secceeded in South Vietnam, the Argument went, other countries in Asia would fall ( like dominoes) to communism.
The problem was that North Vietnam communist regime from gaining control of South Vietnam -
The constrast between wealth and poverty
The world's manufactured production quadrupled in the 1950' and 1960'.
John M, Keynes affirmed that the only way that financial crisis could be resolved was having a control over the economy.
In these period people with resources could go to supermarkets and buy things that hepled to be easier their lifes, of course we are talking about electric appliances -
Enviromental Problems and landscape changes.
Everything seems find but every action have consecuences, and with the use of electric stuff the planet started having enviroment problems, because man started to take very much natural resources.
Energy consumition triplied. -
The Diversity of Ideas
In these time traditional manner changed, there were new attitudes to sex, religion, authority, drugs, etc..
This time had many pacifist movements and new religious sentiment. -
A Wall in Berlin
The wall was builted up in a night to a day.
This divided the: Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. -
The Cuban Misile Crisis
The United States dicovered that the Soviet Union had Nuclear weapons in Cuba.
So U.S. blockade Cuba and prevent the fleet from reaching its destination.
