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Question 1: What is Fascism? Is it the logical pattern of government that resulted from the Industrial Revolution? What countries fell to Fascist leaders? Why? How did these leaders use art to show and increase their power?

Question 2: How did the movies become such an important part of American culture during this time? Who were some of the people who made this happen? How did the movies become the huge business it became during this time?

Question 3: After WWII, Western art entered a period in which a new sort of art developed. Called "abstract" this form of art is often puzzling to new viewers, yet it says something about both the people who created it and the culture and world that inspired it. What is "abstract art" and why do you think people chose to express themselves this way in the middle of the 20th century? Use one artist who created abstract art and tell us why you think they did that sort of art.

Question 4: What was the Beat Generation? Using two examples of American writers who were "Beat" artists, tell us what their work says about America in the 1940's and 1950's.