1900-1920
The constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Event triggered in 1929 by massive speculation in the Stock Market.
What was the Great Depression?
Developed and used against Japan during the last days of World War II.
What was the atomic bomb?
Prominent leader who gave his “I Have a Dream” speech as part of the 1963 March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The U.S. president from 1981-1989 who escalated the arms race and helped bring an end to the Cold War.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
He was responsible for a streamlined production system for Model T automobiles.
Who was Henry Ford?
He provided a source of hope and security through his “Fireside Chats".
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
The genocide of some six-million Jews during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
He became the first person to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
The country that collapsed in 1991 leaving the United States as the dominant global power.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.)?
Created the first successful airplane in 1903.
Who were the Orville brothers?
A severe drought in the Southwestern Great Plains.
What was the Dust Bowl?
The attack that led the United States to formally enter World War II.
What was Pearl Harbor?
This landmark Supreme Court doctrine was reversed by Brown v. Board of Education.
This started in 1983 when the ARPANET switched to the TCP/IP standard.
What is the internet?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
What was the immediate cause of World War I?
A series of domestic programs, public works projects, financial reforms, and regulations with the aim of improving living conditions for Americans.
What was The New Deal?
A medical advancement that led to the development of antibiotics.
What is Penicillin?
A piece of federal legislation that prohibits racial segregation in voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The worst nuclear disaster in history.
What is Chernobyl?
Ended World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The German invasion of Poland.
What event started World War II?
A collective security organization of democratic states that opposed communism.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released this in 1976.
What is Apple Computer?
The government corporation in existence today that was created by the Banking Act of 1933.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?