Great Depression
The Dust Bowl in Film and Literature
1939
The Holocaust
Reactions to the War
100
What date did the stock market crash?
What is October 29, 1929?
100
What movie is about a ten year drought in the Midwest?
What is The Plow That Broke the Plains?
100
What movie was MGM's most expensive movie of the decade?
What is The Wizard of Oz?
100
What was Hitler's largest concentration camp called?
What is Auschwitz-Birkenau?
100
Who wrote "Auschwitz represents the negation and failure of human progress: it negates the human design and casts doubts on its validity." in her memoir of WWII?
Who is Elie Wiesel?
200
What plan did Roosevelt have for creating jobs?
What is the New Deal?
200
How many states did The Plow That Broke the Plains film in?
What is five?
200
Stagecoach, Of Mice and Men, and Wuthering Heights are all examples of what types of movies?
What is film classics?
200
What was the first camp reserved for?
What is political prisoners?
200
How long was the documentary by Alain Resnais about the Holocaust?
What is 32 minutes?
300
What does the FDIC stand for?
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
300
Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
Who is John Steinbeck?
300
Which movie was based on a Civil War novel?
What is Gone With the Wind?
300
What title was the area where the extermination showers were?
What is "Bathing Arrangements?"
300
What form of media is the response titled "11:02--Nagasaki?"
What is photographs?
400
How many people over its lifespan did the WPA get back into work?
What is 8.5 million people?
400
What song was The Grapes of Wrath named after?
What is The Battle Hymn of the Republic?
400
Who became the first African American to win an Academy Award for her work in Gone With the Wind?
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
400
How many extermination camps were there?
What is six?
400
What would Tomatsu characterize postwar in one word?
What is Americanization?
500
Who came up with the Federal Writers' Project?
What is the WPA?
500
"Grapes of wrath" refers back to the what?
What is the Bible?
500
How many shots were on the storyboard for the burning of Atlanta scene in Gone With the Wind?
What is seven?
500
What does "Judenrein" mean?
What is free of Jews?
500
What is the Japanese version of the movie "Godzilla" titled?
What is "Gojira?"
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