VIDEO COMPREHENSION: America the Story of Us: Superpower

Part 1 (min 0 – 22)

Questions:

1-      What natural resources had the USA in big quantities in 1945 ? And what population?

2-      How much more does the average American family earn than the European?

3-      What was the biggest threat to America’s development? 

4-      What were the first American highways?

5-      What vehicle was used for transport on them?

6-      What was the biggest engineer project in American history?

7-      What did Americans spend $65 billion on?

8-      What percentage of the world’s automobiles did America manufacture?

9-      What were the disadvantages and advantages of the Interstate Highways?

10-   What does the American Dream mean?

11-   How & why did the Suburbia phenomenon start?

12-   What was America massproducing in the 50s?

13-   What percentage of the Americans owned a house in the 1940s? And in the 60s?

14-   What technological invention let the American population grow in the southern states?

15-   The Spaceprogram , what was it based on?

Part 2 (min 22 – 44 )

16-   What did 400,000 people work  directly in?

17-    In 1969, a bad and a good event took place. What were they?

18-   When did the first African Americans arrive in Virginia?

19-   After the Civil War ended in 1864 slavery ended, but what problem did still exist?

20-   Where was not there segregation? What did it mean?

21-   What did the Civil Rights Movement achieve?

22-   What was the problem with the Soviet Union?

23-   How much money did the USA spend on nuclear weapons between 1940 and 1996 per American?

24-   What was made in 1959?

25-   What was the biggest inconvinient of a nuclear war?

26-   What was the U2 incident in 1960?

27-   What happened in 1962? What did it consist of?

28-   What was the interior threat  ?

29-   Name three differences between American and Sovietic mentality

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