MODERN AGE

1. Britain’s first colony, ______became independent in 1922
3. The British viewed Germany’s sudden invasion of _____in 1914 as a threat and declared war
5. The proud boast that the______on the British Empire was no longer true
7. The cost of building a _______ state that would take care of its own citizens forced Britain to reduce expenses abroad
8. With no historical precedent for the scale of the bloodshed and destructiveness of World War I, the British referred to it simply as the _______.
9. Freud _____________emphasizing the role of the unconscious in human personality, ques-tioned accepted attitudes about human behavior
12. The _____who appeared around the time of World War I, used techniques that resembled Cubism’s presentation of an object from several perspectives
14. Picasso _________developed a style of art called Cubism,
15. in Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary were overthrown.
16. British _________ used unusual publicity stunts to call attention to their demands.

2. In 1900 a new political party was formed, the ________, which dedicated itself to the interests of workers.
4. took the stream-of-consciousness technique to its limits in Ulysses (1922), creating a book that is simultaneously realistic, symbolic, poetic, didactic, comic, ironic, and mythic
6. _______ as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were of different planets
10. On September 1, 1939, _______forces attacked Poland, forcing Britain and France to declare war.
11. Europe’s postwar economic and political problems encouraged the rIse of ________ in many countries
13. Waste Land T. S. Eliot’s poem _______, one of the major literary works of Modernism.
17. Einstein __________’s special and general theories of relativity established new relationships among space, time, and energy, overturning the familiar Newtonian laws
18. In 1921_____British workers were unemployed.