Key Dates
Important Terms and People
Key Events and Places
Art and Architecture
Textual Analysis
100
In this year of the interwar period, an economic crisis struck, initiated in the United States by overproduction, prompting a period in the U.S. known as "The Great Depression."
What is 1929?
100
This man was the last tzar of Russia. His reign ended in 1917 with the Bourgeois Revolution, which ended the Russian monarchy and established a Republic.
Who is Tzar Nicholas II?
100
This is the name given to the global financial crisis following the economic crash of 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
100
This statue, featured in the courtyard of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, shows what this sculptural artist was able to do with the new materials provided by industry, such as iron.
Who is Alexander Calder?
100
This speech featured in Text A, delivered before the House of Commons on June 4, 1940, is known as one of this leader’s most famous remarks.
Who is Winston Churchill?
200
The Second World War was started in this year, triggered by the imperialist policies of Germany, Italy, and Japan, and set off by Germany's invasion of Poland.
What is 1939?
200
This is the term used to referred to Germany, Italy, and Japan as a group during World War II.
What are the Axis Powers?
200
The atomic bombings of these two cities by the United States in 1945 caused Japan to finally surrender.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
This piece by Vasily Kandinsky is an example of this artistic movement which focused more on colour and shapes, instead of figures and landscapes from the real world.
What is Abstraction?
200
The excerpt from Text B is from the preamble of the charter of this international organization—still in existence today—formed in the aftermath of the Second World War.
What is the United Nations?
300
In this year, following a march on Rome by his supporters, Benito Mussolini declared himself prime minister, establishing a dictatorship based on the Fascist Party.
What is 1922?
300
This term is used to describe the encampments of Americans affected by the Great Depression, usually on the outskirts of major cities, and bears the name of the American president at the time of the Depression’s onset.
What are Hoovervilles?
300
Name three countries that were neutral throughout the entire duration of World War II.
Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Turkey, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan (as well as the microstates of Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino and Vatican City)
300
"The Son of Man" from this painter is an example of the Surrealism movement in art, which was inspired by the unconscious and the world of dreams. 
Who is René Magritte?
300
The excerpt from Text C was written by this young Jewish girl whose experience in hiding during the Holocaust is taught all over the world with the book “The Diary of a Young Girl.”
Who is Anne Frank?
400
Two revolutions took place in Russia in this year—the first in February, followed by the second in October.
What is 1917?
400
This man led those who organized the Bolshevik Revolution and served as the head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924. He was succeeded by Joseph Stalin.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
400
This is the name for the day that triggered the Great Depression, marking the largest sell-off of shares in U.S. history.
What is Black Thursday? (will accept Black Tuesday)
400
Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is a classic example of this architectural movement, which blend the natural with the geometric, curved shapes.
What is Organicism?
400
The excerpt featured in Text D, written by scholars at Stanford University, describes this movement within the rationalist architecture movement.
What is Functionalism?
500
The United Nations, a creation of the Allied Forces to replace the League of Nations, was founded in this year with the mission to maintain peace and promote cooperation and human rights between countries.
What is 1945?
500
This fictional woman represented the millions of American women who went to work in war production factories during World War II and became a symbol of the economic emancipation of women for decades to come.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
500
This key event in Hawaii prompted the United States—and their allies in South America—to finally join the war effort against the Axis powers.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
500
This work of art by Marcel Duchamp, a provocative piece that engages with the absurdity of art and the destruction of art, is an example of this key artistic movement born as a reaction to the bloodshed witnessed in WWI.
What is Dadaism?
500
The speech excerpted in Text E, delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in order to encourage increased manufacturing output, was delivered on December 29, 1940. Fill in the blanks of his remarks. https://youtu.be/8oI-xc7XbWA?t=2033
Democracy, serious, resolution, urgency, patriotism.