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Modern art during the Age of Anxiety turned increasingly abstract and non-representational. [BLANK-1] was a German-born artist who thrived during the Weimar Republic. He was heavily influenced by the horrors of World War I. His art was provocative, emotionally disturbing, and harshly satirical. In “Trench Warfare” (1923) he painted a landscape devoid of vegetation and ruined by the constant artillery shelling of the war. A ghastly grim reaper reaches his hand across the battlefield and a soldier wrapped in barbed wire rests with a gasmask on. His art was labeled “Degenerate Art” by Hitler and was banned. Some of his paintings were included in the Munich Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937. He was arrested by the Gestapo and later forced into military service for the Nazis during the last months of WWII before being captured by the French and living out the rest of his life peacefully in post-Nazi Germany.

The Allied Invasion of Italy began in late-summer 1943 with [BLANK-1]. The amphibious invasion was successful, however, Allied troops’ advance stalled in mainland Italy.

Founded in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams as part of a wave of progressive middle-class reform efforts, [BLANK-1] offered mostly immigrant women child care, kindergartens, administered classes for parents, and held cultural events for the community. It worked to alleviate the conditions caused by urban poverty and industrialization.

If is a differentiable function on a closed and bounded region in the xy-plane, then it has both an absolute maximum and an absolute minimum. Which of the following is true?

In the winter of 1944-1945, Germany engaged in its last offensive of World War II. During this surprise attack, Nazis attempted to encircle Americans on the Western Front in Belgium. The Americans ultimately repelled the German counterattack, known as [BLANK-1], in what turned out to be the deadliest battle in U.S. history. Americans suffered approximately 90,000 casualties.

Radicalism thrived both at home and abroad during the Great Depression. The 1930s was known as [BLANK-1]. CPUSA membership was at an all-time high, the European Popular Front movement made waves in America, and some Hollywood films such as Frank Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington served to criticize capitalistic democracy in the USA.

In 1922, American journalist and social thinker, Walter Lippmann, published an influential critique of American democracy: [BLANK-1]. In this book Lippmann concluded that the American people were ill-informed and incapable of participating in democracy; not only were modern problems beyond the understanding of ordinary men and women, but the independent citizen was nothing but a myth, instead there existed the Free Mob.

It is simpler to file a suit in a court of record than in an inferior.

Where do the coronary arteries originate?

The most significant theater of war during World War II was the Eastern Front. There, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union engaged in a bitter conflict that cost the lives of millions. The turning point of the war came on the Eastern Front during [BLANK-1] from August 1942-February 1943. This was the decisive conflict of the war. Soviet general Georgy Zhukov led the Allies to victory with the complete destruction of the German 6th Army. The Germans suffered 850,000 casualties and never fully recovered.