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100
a 100 year period of change
What is 20th Century?
100
a time when news and information could be shared instantly
What is Information Age?
100
Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged nonviolent protests.
What is the Civil Rights movement?
100
Banks closed and people lost their savings
What is the Great Depression?
100
another word for a deep ditch
What is a trench?
200
a struggle to promote equality for all Americans
What is Civil Rights Movement?
200
a period when the U.S. economy collapsed
What is the Great Depression?
200
The Internet allowed computers to share information.
What is Information Age?
200
People moved from farms to cities to take factory jobs.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
After World War I, Germany had to do this.
What is sign a treaty that said they had to pay money for damages and give back land
300
a period of competition, but never direct fighting, between the United States and the Soviet Union
What is Cold War?
300
weapons that release huge amounts of energy contained in the center and release deadly radiation
What are nuclear weapons?
300
The treaty with Germany at the end of this conflict led to more problems later.
What is World War I ?
300
Two new types of transportation during the Industrial Revolution
What is trains, steamboats, canals, cars
300
This is what happened to the stock market during the Great Depression
What is crash?
400
a worldwide conflict caused by competition between European countries
What is World War I?
400
separation of people, especially by race
What is segregation?
400
Supplies of nuclear weapons increased.
What is the Cold War?
400
This is where Japan launched a surprise attack on American ships in the Pacific Ocean in 1941
What is Pearl Harbor?
500
a period in which there was a change in the way products were made
What is Industrial Revolution?
500
control of the economy by the government
What is Communism?
500
Nazis murdered six million Jews
What is World War II ?
500
Many protests were held during this time to fight against segregation
What is the Civil Right Movement?
500
Name 3 new inventions during the Information Age
What is TV, computers, and VCRs
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