Roaring 20s
This music was popularized during the 1920s
Jazz
This October 1929 event on Wall Street is widely seen as the immediate catalyst for the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash
The surprise Japanese attack on this U.S. naval base on December 7, 1941, directly brought America into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
The Soviet Union's political system where the government controls all resources
Communism
This young woman famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955, sparking a historic year-long boycott.
Rosa Parks
This manufacturing process, perfected by Henry Ford, made cars like the Model T affordable for everyday Americans.
Assembly Line
Shantytowns built by homeless people during the Great Depression were mockingly given this name after the sitting president.
Hoovervilles
This forced more than 100,000 Americans of this ancestry to move into West Coast internment camps.
Executive Order 9066
The primary goal of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War was to stop the spread of communism, a policy known by this term.
Containment
This civil rights leader delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in 1963.
Martin Luther King Jr
This term describes the modern, rebellious women of the 1920s who wore short skirts, cut their hair into bobs, and challenged traditional roles.
Flappers
This massive environmental disaster struck the Great Plains in the 1930s, caused by severe drought and poor farming practices.
Dust Bowl
This was the top-secret U.S. government project that successfully developed the world's first atomic weapons.
Manhattan Project
This Asian conflict broke out in 1950 when communist forces crossed the 38th parallel, leading to U.S. and United Nations intervention.
Korean War
Separating people on account of their skin color
Segregation
This 1920s cultural and artistic explosion in New York celebrated African American heritage through jazz, literature, and art.
He was elected president in 1932 after promising a "New Deal" to help Americans recover from economic ruin.
Franklin D Roosevelt
This group of Native Americans used their tribal language to send secret military codes in the Pacific that the Japanese could never break.
Navajo Code Talkers
This conflict between the US and another Asian country resulted in the US withdrawal in 1973, with the country's eventual fall to communism in 1965
Allowing people of all races to interact freely with one another in public spaces
Integration
This was the movement of millions of African Americans from the Southern US to the North and Midwest
Great Migration
To help reassure the public, President Roosevelt used the radio to deliver these informal, comforting speeches directly to the American people.
Fireside Chats
These were three countries involved in the Allied forces
USA, Britain, France, Russia
In 1957, the Soviet Union shocked the world and officially launched the Space Race by putting this first artificial satellite into orbit.
Sputnik
In 1954, this landmark Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Brown v Board of Education