Dates / Years
Important People
WWI
The American Dream & Other Stuff
Grab Bag
100
This is the year that the United States entered World War I.
What is 1917?
100
This author wrote The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
100
This was another name for World War I.
What is The Great War?
100
This term fills in the blank: One element of the American dream is the importance and triumph of the ___________ - the independent, self-reliant person.
What is individual?
100
This movement called for bold experimentation and wholesale rejection of traditional themes and styles.
What is the modernist movement?
200
This is the year that women in the United States finally won the right to vote.
What is 1920?
200
The socialistic beliefs of this person conflicted with the American system of capitalism and free enterprise.
Who is Karl Marx?
200
This is the number of soldiers killed in a ten-month-long battle near the town of Verdun in northeastern France.
What is more than a half-million?
200
Americans had come to believe in this, which implied that life would keep getting better and continue moving toward an era of greater prosperity, justice, and joy.
What is progress?
200
In 1919, the Constitution was amended to prohibit the manufacture and sale of this.
What is alcohol?
300
This is the year of the New York stock market crash.
What is 1929?
300
This person was the founder of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
300
This is the number of lives lost by the time the armistice, or truce, was signed in November 1918.
What is nearly fifty million?
300
America was sometimes referred to as this. The title painted America as a land of beauty, bounty, and unlimited promise.
What is America as a New Eden?
300
This period of time started in 1929, and by 1933 anywhere from one fourth to one third of American workers were unemployed.
What is The Great Depression?
400
At least 2/3 of American households owned one of these in 1933.
What is a radio?
400
This author is perhaps most famous for his literary style, which reduced the flamboyance of literary language to the bare bones of the truth it must express.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
400
This treaty officially ended the war in June of 1919.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
This author radically changed the very concept of the novel by using stream of consciousness in Ulysses (1922).
Who is James Joyce?
400
These establishments sprung up during Prohibition providing locations for the "underground social scene."
What are speak-easies and jazz clubs?
500
This is the title of the October 31, 1938 broadcast that sent hundreds of people into hysterics.
What is Invasion From Mars?
500
These four poets brought literary distinction to the broad movement of artists known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Who are James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen?
500
The assassination of this archduke was the beginning of World War I in Europe.
Who is the Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
500
This poet's independence was grounded in his ability to handle ordinary New England speech and in his surprising skill at taking the most conventional poetic forms and giving them a twist all his own.
Who is Robert Frost?
500
This artist painted Still Life on a Table (1931).
Who is Pablo Picasso?
