1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
100

This major event happened right before the "roaring 20s"

What is WWI

100

Shanty towns built during the Great Depression mockingly named after the president at the time.

What are "Hoovervilles"?

100

This was Americas initial stance on WWII, commonly depicted in Dr. Suess' political cartoons.

What is Isolationism?

100

In the 1950s with the introduction of the interstate system many people began moving out of cities into mass produced homes/communites.

What are the Suburbs?

100

This famous Supreme Court Case desegregated Schools and overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson Case of "separate but equal"

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

200

Young women, who embraced new fashions and broke with societal expectations for women in the 1920s.

What are flappers.

200

This program provided new jobs for people and helped boost the economy during the Great Depression.

What is the New Deal?

200

This major event and direct attack on America led the US to declare war on Japan.

What is Pearl Harbor?

200

This bill's goal was to ease veteran’s return to civilian life, focusing on access to education and housing.

What is the GI Bill?

200

This group, based out of Oakland, CA, provided assistance to African Americans living in urban areas, such as health clinics, after school programs, and free breakfasts. They argued for armed self-defense and did not seek integration with White society.

Who are the Black Panthers?

300

The 19th Amendment addressed this major issue that had been in the making since the Seneca Falls Convention.

What is Women's Suffrage.

300

A giant dust storm that swept through the Midwest and tore up farms and homes that resulted from weather conditions and nutrient deficient loose top soil on farms

What is the Dust Bowl?

300

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the US Government enacted Executive Order 9066 which led to this historical injustice.

What is Japanese Internment?

300

The 1950s saw the rise of Rock & Roll, this “Rebellious group” enjoyed this music genre.

Who are teenagers?

300

Activists rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to challenge the non-enforcement of Supreme Court rulings that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. 

What are Freedom Rides?

400

Violence was directed at Native Americans with the goal of getting rich off of their oil in this famous historic event.

What is the Osage Murders

400

 Farmers who moved from Oklahoma to California as a result of the Dust Bowl.

Who are oakies?

400

The federal government initiated this program during World War II in an effort to address the urgent need for agricultural laborers.

What is the Bracero Program?

400

At the Yalta Conference, following WWII this country was divided into 4 zones, but was eventually split into East (Soviet Controlled) and West (Democratic)

What is Germany?

400

Tactic the Vietcong use to attack American Soldiers

What is guerilla warfare?

500

This US president valued capitalism and wanted the least amount of government oversight over businesses. His Laissez Faire policies led to prosperity and a rise in consumerism in America in the 1920s.

Who is Calvin Coolidge?

500

A school in San Diego attempted to segregate Mexican Students from Anglo/White Students.

What is the Lemon Grove incident?

500

President Truman authorized dropping atomic bombs on these 2 cities to end the War in the Pacific.

What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

500

This term was used to describe the fear that if one country fell to communism, others will fall as well and communism will rapidly spread across the globe during the Cold War.

What is the Domino Theory?

500

The name of the Scandal that President Nixon was involved in

What is Watergate?

M
e
n
u