Surprise
Roaring 20s
World Wars and Great Depression
1950s
1960s
100
This is sometimes called the "Forgotten War"
Korean War
100
What was illegal during the Roaring 20s?
Alcohol
100
What event brought America into WW2?
Pearl Harbor attacks
100
This man came to define American celebrity during the 1900s.
Elvis
100
What war peaked during the 1960s and resulted in nationwide protests?
Vietnam
200
What President from the 1950s was also America's top general in WW2?
Dwight Eisenhower
200
What often improvised music style gained popularity during the 1920s?
Jazz
200
What group of people did America put into camps?
Japanese-Americans
200
This man, who integrated baseball, won MVP in 1949. Bonus points if you can name his team.
Jackie Robinson
Brooklyn Dodgers
200
What man is often seen as the "opposite" of Martin Luther King?
Malcolm X
300
Name one famous blues musician we studied.
Muddy Waters
Howlin' Wolf
300
What book featuring Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway takes place in New York during the Roaring 20s?
Great Gatsby
300
What event brought America into WW1?
German Submarine Attacks
300
Where did many Americans move to during the 1950s?
Suburbs
300
Hippies became the most remembered symbol of what movement?
Counterculture
400
Who is this girl who integrated Lousiana schools?
Ruby Bridges
400
Many sharecroppers moved North starting around the 1920s. What is this movement of people called?
Great Migration
400
What did Franklin Roosevelt name his policies to help America rebuild during the Depression?
New Deal
400
The first Rock and Roll song was about a new Oldsmobile car. What was this car's nickname?
Rocket 88
400
Who was president after JFK was assassinated, getting America involved in the Vietnam war while also passing many of his Great Society policies?
Lyndon Baines Johnson
500
Who was President when America landed on the Moon?
Richard Nixon
500
What New York City neighborhood was the home of famous authors like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other black artists?
Harlem
500
What were homeless shantytowns called?
Hoovervilles
500
This medication was invented in the late 1950s.
Birth Control
500
We watched a movie about the Civil Rights Movement. What city did it primarily take place in?
Selma, Alabama