The document summarizes several social changes that occurred in the 1920s, including the rise of jazz culture during the Roaring Twenties, influential modernist literature from authors like T.S. Eliot and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Harlem Renaissance which saw a flowering of African American artistic expression, breakthroughs in science from figures like Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, and the development of new visual art styles like Cubism, Abstract art, Dada, and Surrealism.

1. Postwar Social Changes

2. The Roaring Twenties
 Jazz Age
 Flappers
 Prohibition
 Speakeasies

3. New Literature
 T.S. Eliot- The Waste Land
 Ernest Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises
 F Scott Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
 Gertrude Stein- prominent American
female writer called these men “the lost
generation”

4. The Harlem Renaissance
 African American
cultural awakening
 Writers and artists
expressed cultural
pride
 James Weldon
Johnson, Zora Neal
Hurston, Langston

5. New Science
 Marie Curie
Radioactivity
 Einstein
Theories of Relativity
 Alexander Fleming
Penicillin
 Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis

6. New Art Styles
 Cubism
 Picasso, Braque
 Abstract
 Kandinsky, Klee
 Dada- no sense or truth in the world
 Arp, Earnst
 Surrealism- unconscious mind, rejected rational
thought
 Dali

7. Dada- Arp

8. Cubism- Picasso

9. Abstract- Klee

10. Surrealism- Dali