The Roaring Twenties
In 1920, this constitutional amendment took effect, beginning Prohibition and banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Known as Black Tuesday, this day in 1929 marks the start of the Great Depression.
What is October 29, 1929?
These desperate migrants, often fleeing Dust Bowl conditions, sought new lives in California.
Who are the "Okies"?
Germany's 1939 invasion of this country led Britain and France to declare war.
What is Poland?
This 1944 conference created the IMF and World Bank to rebuild and stabilize the global economy.
What is the Bretton Woods Conference?
In 1945, this first gathering focused on fostering postwar international cooperation.
What is the first United Nations meeting?
With the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, this long-sought goal of the women's suffrage movement was achieved.
What is the right to vote?
This 1930 tariff raised import duties and worsened the global depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
This 1934 law established the SEC to regulate Wall Street.
What is the Securities Exchange Act?
This 1940 aerial campaign saw Britain withstand German bombing raids.
What is the Battle of Britain?
Established in 1945, this international body was created to promote peace and prevent future global conflicts.
What is the United Nations?
This South Asian country gained independence from Britain in 1947.
What is India?
The first radio broadcast aired in 1921 from this Pittsburgh station, transforming mass communication.
What is KDKA?
In 1931, panic spread when this kind of financial institution began to fail, triggering mass withdrawals.
What is a bank?
Signed in 1935, this landmark law created a system of retirement and unemployment benefits.
What is the Social Security Act?
This surprise 1941 military attack led the U.S. to join World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
These two Japanese cities were targets of atomic bombs in August 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
These institutionalized racial segregation laws began in South Africa in 1948.
What are apartheid laws?
Though his solo Atlantic crossing was in 1927, this aviator became a household name, symbolizing American innovation.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This president, inaugurated in 1933, introduced sweeping reforms under the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Beginning in 1936, this European conflict became a prelude to World War II.
What is the Spanish Civil War?
This 1942-1943 Soviet victory marked the turning point against Germany in the East.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
At this 1945 summit, Allied leaders discussed the postwar division of Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
From 1945 to 1960, this sweeping global process saw dozens of African nations gain sovereignty.
What is decolonization?
This 1924 act drastically limited immigration, especially targeting people from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
To restore public trust in banks, this government-backed insurance agency was created in 1933.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
This 1938 agreement gave Hitler the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise of peace.
What is the Munich Agreement?
At this 1943 meeting, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin discussed plans for the final defeat of the Axis powers.
What is the Tehran Conference?
In 1947, this organization proposed a partition plan to create a Jewish and Arab state in Palestine.
What is the United Nations?
Beginning around 1944, this U.S. movement fought for equal rights for African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This 1925 trial pitted science teacher John Scopes against the state of Tennessee over the teaching of evolution
What is the Scopes Trial?
Before the crash, this 1929 event symbolized the peak of the consumer-driven economic boom
What is the stock market's all-time high?
On May 14, 1948, this new nation declared its independence.
What is Israel?
This cheerful cartoon rabbit, debuting in 1926, was an early creation of Walt Disney.
Who is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit?
Created in 1949, this Western alliance was formed in response to growing Soviet influence.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
In 1927, this film featuring Al Jolson became the first "talkie," forever changing cinema.
What is The Jazz Singer?*
This 1949 event ended a long civil war and established a communist government in China.
What is the establishment of the People's Republic of China?
These 1954 agreements ended French colonial control in Indochina and split Vietnam.
What are the Geneva Accords?