Geopolitical History
The war fought between the Northern and Southern states of the U.S. from 1861-1865
The Civil War
The number of strikes to strike out in baseball
3
A television cowboy show starring Clayton Moore as a masked hero fighting injustice in the Old West
The Lone Ranger
A monument standing in New York Harbor, gifted by France in 1884
The Statue of Liberty
The author of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
Mark Twain
The U.S. president during World War II
Franklin D Roosevelt
This baseball player is known as "The Sultan of Swat"
Babe Ruth
This film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, features an intense shower scene that has inspired countless other films
Psycho
The style of American art in the 1950s and 60s featuring bold colors and comic book imagery (insert example image)
Pop Art
This 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel is considered a defining portrait of the Jazz Age
The Great Gatsby
This event on December 7, 1941 led the U.S. to enter World War II
Pearl Harbor
The first African American player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier
Jackie Robinson
This iconic actress starred in the 1953 film “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
Marilyn Monroe
This American painter is famous for his paintings of Campbell's Soup Cans
Andy Warhol
This Harper Lee novel is about racial injustice in the South and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961
To Kill a Mockingbird
The U.S. policy of providing aid to European countries after WWII
The Marshall Plan
This boxer is known as "The Greatest", and he refused military induction in 1967
Muhammad Ali
This TV show premiered in 1964, featuring a family living at 1313 Mockingbird Lane
The Munsters
This American artist is famous for painting everyday scenes of diners, gas stations, and city streets in mid-century America (insert image)
Edward Hopper
The poet that wrote "The Road Not Taken"
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both"
Robert Frost
The 1962 standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union over nuclear missiles
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The team that won the first Super Bowl in 1967
Green Bay Packers
This variety show host from early 1950s TV is known as "Mr. Television"
Milton Berle
This New York art movement of the late 1940s and 50s includes painters like Jackson Pollock who dripped paint onto canvas
Abstract Expressionism
This Ernest Hemingway novel is set during the Spanish Civil War
For Whom the Bell Tolls