THE MODERN AGE

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