Video/Movie Viewing Sheet Name:______________________ 1910-1920 1. what were replacing horse-drawn street cars? _________________________________ 2. Name 3 inventions by Thomas Edison. ______________________________________ 3. How long did the first flight last? __________________________________________ 4. Which president was assassinated at the Pan-American exposition? _______________ 5. What happened in San Francisco in 1906? ___________________________________ 6. What happened to women in 1919? _________________________________________ 7. Who was Hollywood’s first western star? ____________________________________ 8. Who became the king of comedy? __________________________________________ 9. During WWI, who was coming “over there?” _________________________________ 10. What day and hour did the Germans surrender? ______________________________ 1920-1929 1. In the 20’s, what was the “law of the land?” __________________________________ 2. What gangster seemed “beyond the law?” ____________________________________ 3. What was the first commercial broadcast station in radio? _______________________ 4. Which trial was broadcast live? ____________________________________________ 5. Who was the first to reach the North Pole? South Pole? _________________________ 6. What was the name of Lindberg’s plane? ____________________________________ 7. What collapsed in 1929? _________________________________________________ 8. What did FDR declare? __________________________________________________ 9. What did FDR mean by “I think its time for beer?” ____________________________ 10. Who was the greatest labor leader of the decade? _____________________________ 11. Where were the 1936 Olympics held? Who was the country’s leader? ____________ 12. Name the black sprinter who proved Hitler wrong? ___________________________ 13. What title was he given? ________________________________________________ 14. What did FDR say about war? ____________________________________________ 1930-1939 1. Because of the “Great Crash” how many were out of work in 1932? _______________ 2. People took to the streets selling _____________________, _____________________, 3. What sprang up around city dumps? ________________________________________ 4. Unbelievable winds turned the plains into ___________________________________. 5. How many farmers made the “great trek” to California? ________________________ 6. What hit the cities of Pittsburgh and Johnstown? ______________________________ 7. What did FDR bring with him? ____________________________________________ 1940-1949 1. On what date did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor? ____________________________ 2. FDR said that date will “live ______________________________________________. 3. Name the two fronts the U.S. fought in WWII. ________________________________ 4. What happened to Mussolini and his mistress? Hitler? __________________________ 5. What was Japan’s most lethal weapon? ______________________________________ 6. On which date and city was the first Atomic bomb dropped? _____________________ 7. Who accepted the Japanese surrender? Name the battle ship. _____________________ 8. Which generation grew up in front of the TV? ________________________________ 9. How many TV viewers were there by 1947? __________________________________ 10. In your opinion, how did WWI differ from WWII? ___________________________ 11. Why were the number of deaths and casualties higher in the second war? __________ 1950-1959 1. What war began in the early 1950’s? Who led the war?_________________________ 2. How many Americans and Chinese were killed? ______________________________ 3. Who led the anti-Communist witch hunts and black listed many? _________________ 4. In the 1950’s, who became queen of England, Princess of Monaco, married Eva Gardener, 5. Name 4 1950’s TV shows. ________________________________________________ 6. Who developed the Polio vaccine? _________________________________________ |