Unit 5: Crisis and Change
Lesson D: Postwar Anxiety, Creativity, and Change
Key Terms
| Key Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| consumer goods | items, such as food and clothing, intended for direct use or consumption |
| Cubism | art style developed in France in the early 1900s, focused on using geometric shapes |
| Dada | artistic movement following World War I that projected nonsense, sarcasm, and silliness |
| Lost Generation | generation of people after World War I, that witnessed the horrors of war firsthand; included artists and writers of the times that had a sense of moral loss or aimlessness |
| media | television, radio, or any communication that reaches a great amount of people |
| pandemic | disease that spreads throughout a large area, region, or the world |
| Realism | art movement in the mid 1800s where the subject is represented in a real-life, realistic manner |
| suffrage | voting rights |
| Surrealism | art movement in the 1900s that deals with how the mind works |
Directions: Practice using these terms.
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