MODERN AGE

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.

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 _______.