The document discusses several landmarks of modernism before the 1950s as assaults on tradition, including modern architecture made possible by new building materials and methods. It also outlines the devastating impact of new technologies in World War I and II, from machine guns and tanks to airplanes and atomic bombs, as well as the Russian Revolution sparked by conditions during World War I. Millions died from war, starvation, and communist rule in the early 20th century.

1. M O D E R N I S M
THERE ARE COUNTLESS LANDMARKS THAT ILLUSTRATE
AS AN ASSAULT ON TRADITION PRIOR TO THE
1950’S

2. V I O L E N C E
MANY MODERN LANDMARKS INVOLVED

3. W O R L D W A R
I
T H E W E A P O N S O F A D V A N C E D T E C H N O L O G Y MA D E W O R L D W A R I MO R E I MP E R S O N A L A N D
MO R E D E V A S T A T I N G T H A N A N Y P R E V I O U S L Y F O U G H T W A R . - F I E R O P 3 8 5

4. • Combatants made use of
machine guns, heavy
artillery, hand grenades,
poison gas, flame throwers,
armored tanks, submarines,
airships, and airplanes. -
Fiero p385
A WAR OF NEW AND
TERRIBLE
TECHNOLOGIES
• Millions of people from many
countries were left dead as a
result of the Great War that
lasted a handful of years.

5. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

6. While Nicholas II was engulfed in war,
his country was suffering. This
ultimately led to the Russian
Revolution, the end of the autocracy in
Russia, and the beginning of the
communist experiment which claimed
millions of lives thanks to people like
Vladimir Lenin.

7. - R . C O N Q U E S T
“The minimum number of starvation victims in
1932–1933 was about five to six million people.”

8. WORLD WAR II

9. “I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps
two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.”
- Albert Einstein
D B Y T E C H N O L O G I C A L A D V A N C E S I N C L U D I N G A I R C R A F T S U C H A S T H E P- 5 1 MU S T A N G . N O N E O F T H E S E A D V A N C E S W E R E B I G G E R O R MO R E S I G N I F I C

10. MODERN
ARCHITECTURE
The revolution in
twentieth-century
architecture was
made possible by
the use of
ferroconcrete in
combination with
the structural
steel cantilever.
-Fiero p408

11. CONCLUSION

12. In conclusion, there are numerous
landmarks that demonstrate
modernism as an assault on tradition in
the era before the 1950’s.

13. W O R K S C I T E D
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Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2012. Print.
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