[Age of Anxiety]
  
Before class 
  
      * Read Palmer, 743-757, 773, 777-785 

      * Key terms
  
	Spartacists					General Strike
	Weimar Republic					Zinoviev (Red) Letter
	Kapp Putsch 					Ramsay MacDonald
	Dawes Plan					National Government
	Locarno	 					Sinn Fein
	Kellog-Briand Pact				Raymond Poincare
	Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk)			Stavisky riots
	dole						Popular Front

      * Key questions


1. What evidence of the advance of political democracy was observable in the early postwar 
years? 

2. With what major problems did the new states that emerged after 1919 have to contend?

3. Explain the role played by the German Social Democrats in the years of the Weimar 
Republic.  What threats to the republic arose from the left?  from the right?  What 
persistent problems did the republic face? 
  
4. Explain the circumstances that contributed to Britain's economic difficulties in the 
twentieth century.  How were these difficulties reflected in the events of the 1920s? in the 
depression of the 1930s? 

5. What might be said about British representative institutions in the crisis of the 1930s?

6. With what issues was France preoccupied in the 1920s?  How did the depression affect 
France economically? 

[Age of Anxiety]

In class 
  
      * Outline 
  
		 1. New intellectual and cultural attitudes: modernism
  
			a. general 
			b. Freud 
  
		 2. Fate of democracy 
  
			a. older democracies  (Britain and France) 
		 	b. new democracies  (Poland and Yugoslavia)
	 
       * Key terms
  
	Sigmund Freud, Interpretation of Dreams, Civilization and
          its Discontents
	Secular humanism
        Humanist Manifesto
	Easter Rebellion 
	General Strike 
	Stanley Baldwin 
	Public Order Act
        Ruhr episode
	Raymond Poincare 
	Stavisky Affair 
	Joseph Pilsudski 
	King Alexander of Serbia 
  
      * Key concepts: modernism, humanism 
  
      * Key question: How well did democracy do after World War I? 

      * Key quotations

It is the ugly, the sick, the grotesque, the incomprehensible, the banal that are sought out--not for 
the purpose of expressing anything, but only in order to obscure; an obscurity however, which 
has nothing to conceal, but spreads like a cold fog over desolate moors; the whole thing quite 
pointless, like a spectacle that can do without a spectator.

				Carl Jung, on seeing Picasso's work in 1932

Religion  must formulate its hopes and plans in the light of the scientific method.

                                Humanist Manifesto (1933)