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Mass Culture: radio and movies
Marconi Discovers the wireless radio waves .
motion picturing began in 1890 they were used as propaganda -
Artistic and Litery trends
Abstract painting became popular and photomontaje started also dada art and surrealism were developed. Literature and books were written with "the search for psycological and unconscious mind" -
More goods more leisure
The eight-hour working was stablished and people became more interested in traveling and sports -
Female functions during WW2
At the beggining they helped in traditional tasks, such as cook and werehouse keepers, as the war advanced they became occupied in more works such as torpedo services and civil population defence -
Mobilization of people : Germany
Hitler wanted a big army so he ordered a mass production of guns, but in 1943 Speer increased the production x 3 leading Germany to a big economical problem -
Bombing cities: Britain
The first city to be bombed was London, It was bombed by Germany in the night. the bombing was called "the blitz" by london -
The Atomic Bomb
The inventor was Albert Einstein it cost about 2 million dolars to creat it -
Movilization of people: Japan
The government tried to control pieces wages, labor and resources.
They also wanted to encourage young men to became kamikases -
Movilization of people: URSS
The soviets won " the battle of machines" they also were very poor so people had to ate cats and dogs to survive.
they were the only country using women in their army -
The Tehran Conference
The leaders of the allies met in Tehran to make alliance so that Germany finaly accepted the end of war -
Mobilization of peolpe: US
They produced a lot of military equipment. Some African-american move to the south for job -
The Yalta Conference
Thw powers met at Yalta to talk about the creation of ONU and the divition of Germany -
Potsdam Conference
Truman demanded free elections to Eastern Europe, and Stalin accepted because that way Eastern Europe wuold be under communist control.Nazi leaders, Germans, italians, japanese, were condemned at trial in Nurembreg. -
Bombing cities: Japan
in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, about 70000 buildings get destroyed and 140000 peolpe died in 1950, 50000 people died cause of radiation -
UNESCO and traditional music
The main purpose of the UNESCo is educatin and conservation of cultural heritage, such as traditional music, this institution was made by the ONU -
A New Struggle
The world was divided into two parts, The capitalists with US as a leader and the comunists with the URSS -
Rivalry in Europe
The eastern Europe believed that each country should decided their government, the URRS was scared they became anti-soviet -
Truman Doctrine
It consisted in finance countries that were in power of the sovier union (such as grece) so that the comunism didn't expand -
The Marshall Plan
The idea was to engaged in fighting comunism. The URSS responded with the COMECON -
Division of Germany
Germany was divided into 4, each part for each ally (Great Britain, US, France and the URSS). In 1948 all allies except for the Soviet Union, unified their dividen Germany only in two, The federal Republic of Germany and The German Democratic Republic -
New Military Alliances
The world was divided into two millitary alliances:
the Nato (north atlantic treaty organization):Belguim, Luxemburgo, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and iceland
Warsaw:pact:Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania. -
The arms Race
U.S.A. and the URSS fought to have the best nuclear army, at the end no one won so they just sold the army to poor countries. The URSS send the first human made satellite to the space. -
Vietnam and the Domino Theory
The theory told that with the fall of North Vietnam over comunist, other countries in Asia would fall too in the hands of comunism -
The Contrast between Wealthy and Poverty
The manufactured production quadrupled and richer people could go to supermarkets to help themselves, something the poor couldn't -
Environment problems and Landscape Changes
The consume of electricity tripliedd leading the world to environment problems because of the abuse of resources. -
The Diversity of Ideas
The Ideas of sex, religion, authority and drugs change. There were also pacifist movements- -
A Wall in Berlin
The wall was made in one night separating germany into two setions -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S.A. discovered a secret base from the USSR with nuclear weapons in Cuba.
