2.  Struggle for Identity and Meaning
 How Soldiers view the Home ront
 Societal Changes
 Reaction to Revolutions

3.  How does Paul view the
home front in All Quiet?
 How is he treated on the
home front?
 France
 England

4.  War = Masculine
 Battle Front = Masculine
 Home front – only
women feminine
 Sexuality
 Dress
 Trivial

5.  Holy Alliance/Three Emperors league
 Now 2 republics and a Communist state
 Germany = Weimar Republic
 Capital = Weimar
 Liberals seen as week
 Treaty of Versailles
 Squeezed on Right and Left

6.  Bad feelings in war years
spill over, form
dominant milieu after
the war
 Freud: Civilization and
its Discontents
 Hemmingway
 George Orwell
 Aldous Huxley
 Albert Camus
 Jazz Age

7.  J.S. Mill
 Petitions
 Budding women’s
movement
 Reactions
 Women’s Social and
Political Union

8.  Militancy increases
 Chaining selves to 10
Downing street gate
 Obstruction, Assemble
 Bomb?
 Hunger Strikes
 Cat and Mouse Act
 1918 Representation of the
People Act
 1928 Representation of the
People Act

9.  We were told we were
winning!
 We are a stronger
nation!
 We were on their soil!
 We almost captured
Paris in 1918!
 We Beat Russia!

10.  Myth that starts with
and propagated by
German military leaders
 Homefront did not
support us
 Strikes
 Revolution
 Liberals force us to
commit to peace
 Liberals = socialists =
Jews

11.  Term taken by German
right wing Paramilitary
groups after WWI
 Active in crushing
revolutionary
movements
 Bavarian Soviet
Republic
 Rosa Luxemburg
 Used by SPD and right
wing parties alike

12.  Germans cannot pay
Reparations
 Devastated
infrastructure
 French and Belgians
occupy Ruhr
 Allies need $ to pay
Americans
 Dawes Plan: American
banks loan $ to Germany
to pay to allies to repay
Americans

13.  During war, prices 2x
higher than prior to the
war
 Post war Germany –
hyperinflation
 Deutschmarks virtually
worthless
 Dawes plan stabilizes
German economy in short
term
 Long term, dependant on
foreign markets, especially
American ones