MODERN AGE
Across
- 2. The cost of building a _______ state that would take care of its own citizens forced Britain to reduce expenses abroad
- 5. Britain’s first colony, ______became independent in 1922
- 8. In 1900 a new political party was formed, the ________, which dedicated itself to the interests of workers.
- 9. _______ as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were of different planets
- 10. _____________emphasizing the role of the unconscious in human personality, ques-tioned accepted attitudes about human behavior
- 11. The British remained defiant despite nightly German air raids, which the British referred to as the _____.
- 12. The proud boast that the______on the British Empire was no longer true
- 13. The _____who appeared around the time of World War I, used techniques that resembled Cubism’s presentation of an object from several perspectives
- 14. Europe’s postwar economic and political problems encouraged the rIse of ________ in many countries
- 16. On September 1, 1939, _______forces attacked Poland, forcing Britain and France to declare war.
- 18. _________developed a style of art called Cubism,
- 19. The Americans and Soviets soon became rivals in a ______ for control of the postwar world
- 21. As ________ memorably observed of the RAF, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
- 22. _____rationing did not end until 1958.
Down
- 1. In 1921_____British workers were unemployed.
- 3. T. S. Eliot’s poem _______, one of the major literary works of Modernism.
- 4. ______took the stream-of-consciousness technique to its limits in Ulysses (1922), creating a book that is simultaneously realistic, symbolic, poetic, didactic, comic,
- 6. __________’s special and general theories of relativity established new relationships among space, time, and energy, overturning the familiar Newtonian laws
- 7. Because of shortages, _____ rationing was increased.
- 11. The British viewed Germany’s sudden invasion of _____in 1914 as a threat and declared war
- 15. British _________ used unusual publicity stunts to call attention to their demands.
- 17. _______in Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary were overthrown.
- 20. With no historical precedent for the scale of the bloodshed and destructiveness of World War I, the British referred to it simply as the _______.