Science+and+Technology+1900's

//Matt Devlin//


 * Prompt:** Identify four specific changes in science and technology and explain their effects on Western European family and private life between 1918 and 1970. ﻿(Important words to notice, anything not in the time periods or places is irrelevant)

__Topic 1 - Radio and Movies__
 * Information could be spread to homes more quickly
 * Propaganda was more widespread
 * Movies promoting Nazism
 * Movies showed the power of a socialist movement
 * Mass marketing

__Topic 2 - Nuclear Weapons__
 * Scared everyone
 * Einstein
 * E=MC^2
 * First used on Japan to force them to withdraw from WW2
 * Manhattan Project - made nuclear bomb (be sure to relate to W. Europe)
 * Sheer power of the bombs were observed by world
 * Russian Posession of Nuclear Bombs
 * Marshall Plan - Aided all of Europe (economy)
 * Stronger sense of unity against Communism

__Topic 3 - Nuclear Energy__
 * Pushed De Gaulle
 * France = 3rd nuclear power
 * nuclear power begins to be invested in heavily

__Topic 4 - //Sputnik//__
 * Russia emerges as head of technology
 * Economy is U.S. declines
 * less money to go to Europe

__Thesis__: Between 1918 and 1970, Western Europe underwent many scientific and technological changes which affected the home life of its citizens through things such as inescapeable mass marketing, and fear of a communist revolution.