1920s
Highly publicized trial of high school teacher charged with violating state law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution
Scopes Monkey Trial
Legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933
Prohibition
With the onset of drought in 1930, the overfarmed and overgrazed land began to blow away. Winds whipped across the plains, raising billowing clouds of dust
The Dust Bowl
the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person, used by Germany in WW2
Propaganda
setting limits on purchasing certain high-demand items. The government issued a number of “points” to each person, even babies, which had to be turned in along with money to purchase goods made with restricted items.
Rationing
This amendment prohibits the manufacturing, sale and transporting of alcohol.
18th amendment
Young woman known for wearing short dresses and bobbed hair and for embracing freedom from traditional societal constraints
the idea that increasing the consumption of goods and services purchased in the market is always a desirable goal, and that a person's well-being and happiness depend fundamentally on obtaining goods and material possessions
Consumerism
The idea of adding justices to the Supreme Court or lower courts to shift the balance in a liberal, conservative or other direction during the FDR administration.
Court Packing
The genocide of European Jews during World War II.
Holocaust
A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, and was a turning point in the Pacific Theater
Battle of Midway
This amendment gives women the right to vote
19th amendment
A period of artistic and cultural activity among African Americans after WW1
Harlem Renaissance
When stocks become worth a lot more than the actual value of the company. People were buying stocks on credit from the banks, but the rise in the market wasn't based on reality.
Overspeculation
The three parts to Roosevelts New Deal
Relief, Recovery and Reform
American volunteer pilots recruited by Claire L. Chennault, a retired U.S. Army captain, to fight the Japanese in Burma (Myanmar) and China during 1941–42, at a time when Japan's control over China's ports and transportation system had almost cut off China's Nationalist government from the outside world.
Flying Tigers
The Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944, and was a turning point in the European theater
Battle of Normandy
the military strategy, used by the Allies in World War II, of concentrating on Japanese islands which were not well defended.
Island Hopping
Raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 in an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists, many of whom were subsequently deported.
Palmer Raids
a production process that breaks the manufacture of a good into steps that are completed in a pre-defined sequence, credited to Henry Ford.
Assembly Line
a common term for shacktowns and homeless encampments during the Great Depression.
Hoovervilles
a device or system consisting usually of a synchronized radio transmitter and receiver that emits radio waves and processes their reflections for display and is used especially for detecting and locating objects (such as aircraft) or surface features (as of a planet)
Radar
Discovered in 1928 it is an antibiotic used to manage and treat a wide range of infections.
Penicillin
This amendment allows voters to directly elect Senators
17th amendment
Known as the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), he emerged as a champion of black rights and a visionary leader.
Marcus Garvey
A bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923
Teapot Dome Scandal
The common name given to the deportation, and expulsion of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression between 1929 and 1939.
Mexican Repatriation
One of the most transformative events of the 20th century. It ushered in the nuclear age with the development of the world's first atomic bombs.
Manhattan Project
An African American U.S. Army first lieutenant during WW2 who was given the Presidential Medal of Honor posthumously.
Vernon Baker
The amendment that grants Congress the power to issue an income tax
16th amendment