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I think of Europe and the United States & Canada as The West. Westernization typically refers to taking on characteristics of America & Europe. Both regions have similar characteristics.

**Postwar Cultural Improvements/Setbacks in the West** * economic probs: inflation loss of husbands/sons (breadwinners) slightly dented sense of nationalism * Intellectual advancements =Cubism= Picasso's abstract artistic style, blocks of color that created pictures, often surreal & distorted, subjects often women **More Industrialization** *Canada, Australia, New Zealand (previously white-dominated British colonies)
 * Agricultural and coal mining failed to bring wealth → west
 * **Cubism**
 * physics equations & formulas discovered
 * new pop culture and music
 * Radios and for the first time widespread, focused on advertisements
 * Flapper girls image → female empowerment, could go to nightclubs, more representation in pop culture
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">still this was mostly for middle class women
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: square; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">start of polarization of political scene: Communist vs. old-timer right-wing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: square; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">rewarded for participation in war with independence in 20s
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">british colonization purely symbolic
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nations became self-governing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">population growth

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* economic upswing for US <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* problems in US <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">US rejected the Treaty of Versailles The US & West -- McCarthyism, mass hysteria, witch hunts for communists lots of people “blacklisted” []
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: square; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Economic boom (vertical and horizontal integration)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">processes to maximize effectiveness introduced & implemented -> greater industry profits
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: square; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Artistic, cultural, and intellectual developments
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hollywood, movies, pop entertainment
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harlem Renaissance, jazz, etc