1920s
Women who would live energetically and would wear short dresses
What are Flappers?
The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world
What is the Great Depression?
A period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies
What was the Cold War?
An American Police Action that took place in the Koreas
What was the Korean War?
A major civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
A music genre introduced by African Americans in the 1920s
What is Jazz?
The drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl?
The mass genocide of European Jews during World War II.
What was the Holocaust?
By 1955 around 2/3s of homes in the United States had at least one of these
What is a TV?
A competition between two Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve superior spaceflight capability
What was the Space Race?
A period of intense creativity from African American artists, musicians, photographers, writers and philosophers.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Another name for Shanty Town referencing one of the United States' Presidents
What are Hoovervilles?
The two cities the the United States dropped nuclear bombs Little Boy and Fat Man on
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The effect of people having more time, freedom, and money?
What was the birth of "teens"?
A war the US entered in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism, but foreign policy, economic interests, national fears, and geopolitical strategies also played major roles.
What was the Vietnam War?
The movement led by women against alcohol and drinking
What is the temperance Movement?
The idea that if someone is struggling or poor that they are just lazy and need to put in more work
What is Rugged Individualism?
A civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States established in the 1940s
What is the CIA?
The names of communities built through mass-production and are widely regarded as the archetype for postwar suburbs
What are Levittown's?
Government assistance that aims to improve the lives of the lowest-income families and individuals
What is the Social Safety Net?
The man who popularized the assembly line
Who is Henry Ford?
A series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt
What were the Fireside Chats?
The US led program to prevent the spread of Communism and contain them within its current borders
What was the Marshall Plan?
The nickname given to North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-il
What was "Our dear leader"?
The first crewed mission of the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon, also tragically ending in the death of 3 astronauts.
What was Apollo 1?