Listen to some of the music of the Great War, including the hit songs It's a Long Way to Tipperary. There are many collections of ragtime music available on the web, including the West Coast Ragtime Society.
Other cultural phenomena from 1919 and 1920
- The movie Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, 1920), directed by Robert Wiene. Though not a box office success, it was the first horror film and signaled the onset of the cultural movement know as German expressionism.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus-Logico Philosophicus (aka Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung, 1921) appeared and became one of the most important philosophical books of the twentieth century. It was written largely When Wittgenstein was a prisoner-of-war, captured by the Italians.
- DADA cultural movement
- The Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918
- Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus
- John Maynard Keynes published The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
- Ballets Russes (under the directorship of Sergei Diaghilev) continued to perform
- In 1919 President Woodrow Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize recipient