Roaring '20s
Depressing '30s
Patriotic '40s
Family '50s
Turbulent '60s
100
Don't be fooled by the name, American women were happy to finally get this, with the 19th Amendment in 1920.
What is suffrage (voting rights)?
100
Save us FDR! When he was elected in 1932, he announced this plan to help America through the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
Both Italy and Germany fell under this style of government in the 1930s and 1940s.
What is fascism?
100
You ain't nothing but a Hound Dog! This was one of the biggest hits among teens in the 1950s, sung by this musician from Mississippi.
Who is Elvis Presley?
100
Holy cow! John F. Kennedy was the first president of this religious group to ever hold the position.
What is Catholic?
200
Shhh!!! If you're too loud, the police will find out about these secret places to get alcohol during the era of Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
200
Oh, I see! Young men could get work during the depression by planting trees and building roads and parks by working for this work program.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
200
After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt said this date is one that would "live in infamy."
What is December 7, 1941?
200
Atten-tion! He became famous as a general of WWII, and used that popularity to become president from 1952-1960.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
200
Oink Oink! The Bay of Pigs invasion was ultimately a victory for this man, who controlled Cuba, beginning in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
300
No need for steroids here! He hit 60 home runs in 1927.
Who is Babe Ruth?
300
Looks like we're not in Oklahoma anymore! This family left home for California in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
Who are the Joads?
300
If she can do it, so can you! She inspired millions of women to work in defense factories during WWII.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
300
Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party? You were in deep trouble if this Republican senator called you out in the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
Why can't we be friends? After our failed Bay of Pigs invasion, this man buddied up to Cuba by sending nuclear missiles in 1962.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
400
Maybe he should have worked a little HARDer! This president, from 1921-1923 is known mostly for his gambling, womanizing, and corrupt friends.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
400
Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore! She was swept up by a tornado and taken to the land of Oz in 1939.
Who is Dorothy?
400
After this battle on the Western Front, on June 6 1944, the Allies had the upper hand against the Nazis.
What is D-Day?
400
Suburbs, family, white-collar jobs. People of the 1950s often looked exactly the same, thanks to the pressure of this idea.
What is social conformity?
400
Although he was not alive to see it, JFK launched the program that eventually put the first man on the moon in this year.
What is 1969?
500
Murder? Burglary? Smuggling? Nope. Al Capone was only arrested when he was convicted of this crime in 1931.
What is tax evasion?
500
Take that Hitler! This athlete won the gold medal in the 100 meter dash in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Who is Jesse Owens?
500
Boom goes the dynamite! This was the CIA's top secret project to build the atomic bomb from 1942-1945.
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
Are all cats communist? They all seem obsessed with him, the Communist leader of China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
500
Elvis who? These four young lads from Britain made American girls forget all about Elvis Presley, when they made their first trip to America in 1963.
Who are the Beatles?
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