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Fads and Fashion
100

This element is related to uranium. From around the 1920 to the 1950’s, this element's name was commonly used in place of Uranium for advertising.

Radium

100

Headline reads:

A 13 month mass protest that began with Rosa Park's arrest has ended

Montgomery Bus Boycott

100

These hidden places were built for dancing and drinking during Prohibition.

Speakeasies

100

These Civil Rights activists drove across the United States from May to April in Summer, 1961.

Freedom Riders

100

Conccocted from the name for the U.S. five-cent coin and the ancient Greek word for a roofed over theater.

Nickelodeon

100

This is the reason it was always "snowing" in Auschwitz.

Bodies were being cremated and the ashes released into the air.

100

This Atari game spawned many clones due to its success.

Pong
200

The first successful nuke was dropped on July 19, 1945,  in an isolated part of New Mexico named _______

Trinity

200

Headline reads:

Russians speed up Cuba bases, U.S. preparing further action

Cuban Missile Crisis

200

This guitarist is well-remembered for his rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock in 1969.

Jimmy Hendrix

200

This Supreme Court trial justified the laws behind segregation that functioned until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Plessy v. Ferguson

200

She was an American child actress and Hollywood's #1 box office draw from 1934 to 1938.

Shirley Temple

200

Hitler wanted to study this in Vienna.

Art (watercolor painting)

200

These inanimate objects were many people’s favorite companions in the Seventies.

Pet Rocks

300

In 1954 the first nuclear power plant was connected to the Moscow grid and taught humanity to use another type of energy. This was its name.

Obninsk

300

Headline reads:

Naxis renew air raids on Britain

London Blitz / Battle of Britain

300

This Chubby Checker song started a whole new dance craze.

The Twist

300

This boy was murdered after one interaction in a grocery store in 1955.

Emmett Till

300

James Dean was the cultural icon of teenage dissillusionment and starred as juivinile delinquint Jim Stark in this 1955 classic.

Rebel Without a Cause

300

This event began on June 6th, 1944 in Normandy, France.

D-Day

300

This post-war fashion was designed to put women back in the home.

The New Look

400

These were the names of the two atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Little Boy and Fat Man

400

Headline reads:

Firing squad kiss seven in big gangland massacre

St. Valentine's Day Massacre

400

This was the Beatles' first album

Please Please Me

400

This person was called the "Mother of Civil Rights."

Rosa Parks
400

This 1915 silent film glorified the KKK to approving white audiences, starting a new wave of members and support for the Klan.

The Birth of a Nation

400

This was the name of the Vietnamese village that was massacred by American soldiers in 1968.

My Lai (Pinkville)

400

The Bee Gees wrote "Stayin' Alive" and several other songs for this 1977 John Travolta film about disco.

Saturday Night Fever

500

This element (94 on the periodic table) was discovered in the 1940’s by scientists learning to split the atom.

Plutonium

500

Headline reads:

U.S. senator named as oil stock speculator; Whitney to face quiz today on slush fund

Teapot Dome Scandal

500

This song got Elvis his first gold record.

"Heartbreak Hotel"

500

A major civil rights protest is named in part after this Alabama city.

Birmingham Campaign
500

He was an American actor and would often co-star with Judy Garland in Andy Hardy films

Mickey Rooney

500

This was the most significant thing about the Battle of Coral Sea

It was the first carrier vs carrier battle.

500

John Lennon and Disco Queens made this fashion accessory popular.

Mirrored Sunglasses