1930s
This board game was rebranded in the 1930s and included buying and selling real estate.
What is Monopoly?
Name two accessories popular for women to wear with their dresses in the 1940s.
What are hats, gloves, belts, seamed stockings, head scarves, and pearls?
This sitcom starring Lucille Ball premiered in 1951 and became one of the most beloved TV shows ever.
What is I Love Lucy?
This astronaut became the first person to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This 1977 space opera introduced audiences to characters like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
What is Star Wars?
This salty snack, invented by Charles Elmer Doolin in 1932, is made of fried corn chips.
What is Fritos?
This Disney film introduced audiences to a flying elephant in 1941.
What is Dumbo?
This political tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union dominated the 1950s.
What is the Cold War?
This civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
What is the Watergate scandal?
The 21st amendment of the United States Constitution marked the end of this.
What is Prohibition?
This bandleader and trombonist lead a famous big band and disappeared mysteriously in 1944.
Who is Glenn Miller?
Launched in 1957, this was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
What is Sputnik 1?
This U.S. president was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This boxer, known as “The Greatest,” regained the heavyweight title in 1974.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
The first full-length animated film produced by Walt Disney in the 1930s.
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
This was the year Mount Rushmore building/construction was completed.
1941
This U.S. president served most of the 1950s and was a former WWII general.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This war ended in 1975, after years of protest.
What is the Vietnam War?
Name FDR's three "R's" that were part of his New Deal.
What are Relief, Reform, and Recovery?
This U.S. president died in 1945 and was succeeded by Harry Truman.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This iconic artist helped define pop art with works like Campbell’s Soup Cans.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This Swedish pop group won Eurovision in 1974 with “Waterloo.”
Who is ABBA?