20's/30's
This pilot flew across the Atlantic for the very first time?
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
In 1949 Baseball integrates allowing this baseball player to become the first black baseball player.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Who is John F Kennedy?/Who is JFK?
This woman was approved unanimously, 99-0, by the United States Senate to become the first female Supreme Court Justice in 1981.
Who is Sandra Day O'Conner?
This was a powerful, devastating and historic tropical cyclone that caused 1,392 fatalities and damages estimated at $125 billion in late August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and its surrounding area.
What was Hurricane Katrina?
What is the Great Depression?
A conflict between North and South Korea, involving the United States and other UN Forces stemming from Cold War tensions.
What is the Korean War?
During the 70's This holiday was first celebrated and created to protect and take care of our Earth.
What is Earth Day?
The first Black president of South Africa. He earlier played a key role in ending the country's apartheid system of racial segregation.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This internet challenge went viral and beyond raising money for victims suffering from ALS.
What is the Ice Bucket Challenge?
This event led to the banning of making and selling alcohol.
What is prohibition?
The start of the decade started this war between the Allies and the Axis powers.
What is WWII?
This was a spaceflight conducted from July 16 to 24, 1969, by the United States and launched by NASA. It marked the first time that humans landed on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
On 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of this, and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
What is 9/11?
What is the Dust Bowl?
The escalating rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, with ideological and geopolitical tensions shaping the global landscape.
What is the Cold War?
(1977) The sudden and tragic death of this singer. In 1977 left fans around the globe devastated. The passing of the King of Rock and Roll.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This person died from injuries sustained earlier that night in a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. Her death caused millions upon millions to grieve for her death from various countries not just Great Britain.
Who is Princess Diana?
Social movement and awareness campaign against sexual abuse, sexual harassment and rape culture, in which women publicize their experiences of sexual abuse or sexual harassment
What is the MeToo Movement?
Who are Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman?
This was dropped onto the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is the atomic bomb?
An American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m at age 39.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
This rocket seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida,
What is the Challenger Disaster?