Atomic Atrocities
This element is related to uranium. From around the 1920 to the 1950’s, this element's name was commonly used in place of Uranium for advertising.
Radium
Headline reads:
A 13 month mass protest that began with Rosa Park's arrest has ended
Montgomery Bus Boycott
These hidden places were built for dancing and drinking during Prohibition.
Speakeasies
These Civil Rights activists drove across the United States from May to April in Summer, 1961.
Freedom Riders
Conccocted from the name for the U.S. five-cent coin and the ancient Greek word for a roofed over theater.
Nickelodeon
This is the reason it was always "snowing" in Auschwitz.
Bodies were being cremated and the ashes released into the air.
This Atari game spawned many clones due to its success.
The first successful nuke was dropped on July 19, 1945, in an isolated part of New Mexico named _______
Trinity
Headline reads:
Russians speed up Cuba bases, U.S. preparing further action
Cuban Missile Crisis
This guitarist is well-remembered for his rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock in 1969.
Jimmy Hendrix
This Supreme Court trial justified the laws behind segregation that functioned until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Plessy v. Ferguson
She was an American child actress and Hollywood's #1 box office draw from 1934 to 1938.
Shirley Temple
Hitler wanted to study this in Vienna.
Art (watercolor painting)
These inanimate objects were many people’s favorite companions in the Seventies.
Pet Rocks
In 1954 the first nuclear power plant was connected to the Moscow grid and taught humanity to use another type of energy. This was its name.
Obninsk
Headline reads:
Naxis renew air raids on Britain
London Blitz / Battle of Britain
This Chubby Checker song started a whole new dance craze.
The Twist
This boy was murdered after one interaction in a grocery store in 1955.
Emmett Till
James Dean was the cultural icon of teenage dissillusionment and starred as juivinile delinquint Jim Stark in this 1955 classic.
Rebel Without a Cause
This event began on June 6th, 1944 in Normandy, France.
D-Day
This post-war fashion was designed to put women back in the home.
The New Look
These were the names of the two atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Little Boy and Fat Man
Headline reads:
Firing squad kiss seven in big gangland massacre
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
This was the Beatles' first album
Please Please Me
This person was called the "Mother of Civil Rights."
This 1915 silent film glorified the KKK to approving white audiences, starting a new wave of members and support for the Klan.
The Birth of a Nation
This was the name of the Vietnamese village that was massacred by American soldiers in 1968.
My Lai (Pinkville)
The Bee Gees wrote "Stayin' Alive" and several other songs for this 1977 John Travolta film about disco.
Saturday Night Fever
This element (94 on the periodic table) was discovered in the 1940’s by scientists learning to split the atom.
Plutonium
Headline reads:
U.S. senator named as oil stock speculator; Whitney to face quiz today on slush fund
Teapot Dome Scandal
This song got Elvis his first gold record.
"Heartbreak Hotel"
A major civil rights protest is named in part after this Alabama city.
He was an American actor and would often co-star with Judy Garland in Andy Hardy films
Mickey Rooney
This was the most significant thing about the Battle of Coral Sea
It was the first carrier vs carrier battle.
John Lennon and Disco Queens made this fashion accessory popular.
Mirrored Sunglasses