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The Century, America's Time: Over the Edge (1936-1941) Video Questions
US HISTORY
Directions: Answer the following questions based on the movie. The questions are
listed in the order they appear in the film. You do not need to use complete
sentences.
Part 1:
1. What city hosted the Olympics in the summer of 1936?
2. What did the Nazis use the 1936 Olympics to try to project?
3. Why were Marty Glickman and Sam Stahler not allowed to compete in the 1936
races?
4. How did Hitler react when Jesse Owens won the 100 meter race? How many
medals did Owens win in 1936?
5. What did Roosevelt hire photographers to do in 1937 in order to get support for
fighting the Depression?
6. What magazine displayed many of these pictures?
7. What media device became America's favorite way to keep up with events in the
1930's?
8. How did Roosevelt use this to help combat the Depression?
9. What other leader in the 1930's understood how to use radio and motion pictures
to align his people with his goals?
10. What was the name of the Leni Riefenstahl film that documented the 1934 Nazi
rallies at Nuremberg?
11. How did Hitler's emotional tone change of the course of each of his speeches?
12. What effect did Hitler's speeches have on his listeners?
13. What burned in German bonfires throughout the 1930's? What was dead in
Germany?
10. What happened to thousands of German civilians who resisted Hitler during the
early 1930's?
11. What did the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 do to the Jews?
12. What did German Troops do on March 12, 1938? How did the Austrians react to
this move?
13. How did the treatment of Austrian Jews change once Germany annexed Austria?
14. What did American boxer Joe Louis do to the German boxer Max Schmelling in
1938? How did Americans react to this?
15. How many Americans fought in the “Abraham Lincoln Brigade” in the Spanish
Civil War?
16. While the Americans fought for the elected government, who supported the
Fascist rebels in this war?
17. What new territory did Hitler demand in September of 1937?
18. How people in Britain and France react when Hitler refused to back down from
invading Czechoslovakia?
19. How did Chamberlain avert war with Germany at this time?
20. How did the Germans in Sudetenland react when the Germans annexed it?
19. What was the night of November 10, 1938 called in Germany?
20. What did the Germans do to the Jews and their property on this date?
21. Why did the Black performer Marion Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memorial on
Easter Sunday, 1939? How many people gathered to hear her sing?
22. What happened to the steam ship St Louis when it tried to land in Havana and
New York in 1939?
23. What eventually happened to 660 of the 900 Jews on board this ship?
24. Why did Roosevelt not help the 900 Jews on the St Louis?
25. What did Roosevelt feel was the best way to help Europe in the late 1930's?
26. What happened to the lights at the Polish Pavilion in the 1939 World's Fair on the
last night of August, 1939? Why did they do this?
27. What Irving Berlin song went to the top of the charts in September of 1939?
28. Where did Hitler's Blitzkrieg turn in the spring of 1940?
29. What city did German troops enter in June of 1940?
30. How did Roosevelt help it British Ally as the Germans began to bomb the nation
in 1940?
31. What happened in December of 1940?
32. How many men were in the US Army at this time?