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CHAPTER 2: THE ROARING TWENTIES & THE GREAT FALL (1920’s-1945)
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  1. CHAPTER 1: BIRTH OF MODERNISM AND THE MODERN WORLD (1900-1920’s)
    1. 1.1 Modernism
    2. 1.2 War & Revolution
    3. 1.3 The Freudian Revolution
    4. 1.4 Modern Art
    5. 1.5 Modernist Poetry
    6. 1.6 The Birth of Film
    7. 1.7 Modern Architecture
    8. 1.8 Music & Dance
  2. CHAPTER 2: THE ROARING TWENTIES & THE GREAT FALL (1920’s-1945)
    1. 2.1 The Jazz Age
    2. 2.2 The Great Migration
    3. 2.3 The Harlem Renaissance
    4. 2.4 Modern Art
    5. 2.5 The Lost Generation
    6. 2.6 The Great Depression
    7. 2.7 The Mexican Muralist Movement
    8. 2.8 World War II
  3. CHAPTER 3: THE SEARCH FOR MEANING & BEGINNING OF GLOBALISM (1945-1950’s)
    1. 3.1 The Cold War
    2. 3.2 Existentialism
    3. 3.3 Origins of Theater & Theater of the Absurd
    4. 3.4 Abstract Expressionism
  4. CHAPTER 4: LIBERATION AND EQUALITY (1960-ONWARD)
    1. 4.1 Quest for Equality
    2. 4.2 The Civil Rights Movement
    3. 4.3 The Women’s Rights Movement
    4. 4.4 LGBTQIA+ History
    5. 4.5 The Vietnam War
    6. 4.6 Hippies and Counter Culture
    7. 4.7 Birth of Rock n’ Roll, Pop Culture & Mass Media
    8. 4.8 New Modern Art Movements
    9. 4.9 Metamodernism
    10. 4.10 Punk Rock Revolution

CHAPTER 2: THE ROARING TWENTIES & THE GREAT FALL (1920’s-1945)

This is a striking image of people crammed onto a train. A man reads a newspaper as a man behind him is playing his violin. A woman stares straight ahead and in the backgound New York City's skyline can be seen through the window as they travel over the bridge.

Albert Potter, Modern Music, 1933-1936, linoleum cut on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Irving Potter, 1989. CC0.

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