Chapter 35: An Age of Anxiety

AP World History By: Kimberly Zerbst

What we’re learning today…

• New scientific paradigms (Freud, Big Bang theory)

• New approaches to art (Guernica)• Great Depression

– Communist economic approaches– Capitalist economic approaches

• Humanitarian responses (red cross)• Ethnic violence

New Scientific Thought• Einstein• Freud• Heisenberg

• How are the ideas of these men related to the events of WWI?

• How might they change the future?

New approaches to art

SWITCH TO SMART LESSON

Interactive Depression Lesson

Approaches to the Depression

Communism (Russia) Capitalism (USA)

• Led by a single strong leader (Stalin)

• Five year plans– Agricultural –to-

industrial– collectivization

• Governmental control of economy

• Great purge

• Led by a single strong leader (Roosevelt)

• New Deal– Alphabet programs– Agriculture – to -

industrial

• Government control of economy– Keynesian economics

Humanitarian responses – Red Cross/Crescent

• Henry Dunant-1859

• Red cresent – Ottoman Empire 1870’s

Ethnic violence

• Armenian genocide• Holocaust• What precedents in

history set the stage for these events?

• How did Hitler use the Armenian genocide to justify his policies against Jewish people?

• What are the causes of genocide?

Genocide by the Turks

Did you get it?

• New scientific paradigms (Freud, Big Bang theory)

• New approaches to art (Guernica)• Great Depression

– Communist economic approaches– Capitalist economic approaches

• Humanitarian responses (red cross)• Ethnic violence