America in the 1940s
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What were the Axis Powers?
What were the most popular music genres of the 1940s?
The American Dream is considered achievable through these characteristics.
What are ambition and hard work?
Arthur Miller was married to this famous figure in Hollywood.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
This genre of movie was at its height during the 1940s.
What is Film Noir?
Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France.
What were the Allied Powers?
An abstract art style which fragments its subjects to highlight structure and offer multiple perspectives at once.
What is cubism?
The American Dream is thought to have died in the wake of these two tragic events.
What are the Great Depression and World War 2?
Arthur Miller began a degree in this field before becoming an English major instead.
What is journalism?
The purging of negative emotions which allows readers to feel peaceful.
What is catharsis?
While the USA and the USSR never went to war directly, they became involved in conflicts in these three countries.
What are Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba?
Literature during the 1940s took a special interest in these concepts.
What is self-discovery and oppressive government systems (societal violence)?
The American Dream is often described illustrated with at least one of these two terms.
Arthur Miller won these awards for Death of a Salesman.
What are the Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the NY Drama Circle Critic's Award?
Death of a Salesman won this many Tony Awards.
What is four?
International trade dropped by 66%, and unemployment rates were at 14% rather than the typical 4%.
What was the long-lasting impact of the Great Depression?
An art style which lifts inspiration from dreams and often appears as collages and abstract imagery.
What is surrealism?
These three concepts are why some consider the American Dream to be dead.
What is the subjectivity of success, consumerist mentalities, and oppression?
Arthur Miller wrote these two famous plays in addition to Death of a Salesman.
What are All My Sons and The Crucible?
The term "catharsis" comes from the Greek for this word.
What is "cleansing?"
The development of these nuclear weapons drove citizens in both the USA and USSR to build bomb shelters and practice bomb drills.
What are hydrogen and atom bombs?
An art style which embraces diverse techniques and emphasizes spontaneity and the attitudes of the artist.
What is abstract expressionism?
The American Dream is summarized through these three ideals of the USA.
What is "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," "all men are created equal," and "freedom to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our prosperity?"
Miller was accused of being a communist by HUAC and found guilty of this crime.
What is contempt of congress?
Death of a Salesman ran for this many performances on Broadway when it originally premiered.
What is 742?