20th Century Timeline
The worst U.S. stock market crash took place during this decade
What are the 1920s?
The Roaring Twenties came to a premature halt on October 29, 1929, when the stock market crash triggered the Great Depression.
This term of endearment is another name for father
What is dad (or pop)?
This animal won the race in “The Tortoise and the Hare”
What is the tortoise?
The moral of the story is that slow andsteady wins the race
Vertical lines run this way
What is up and down, or from top to bottom?
The straight legs on the average dinner table are vertical lines.
Despite a peak in the early 1970s, newspapers soon faced competition from cable news, like this network, which first broadcast in 1980
What is CNN?
The 24-hour news channel struggled against newspapers at first, but this dynamic changed during the Persian Gulf War.
President Kennedy was assassinated during this decade
What are the 1960s?
The assassination took place on November 22, 1963, and it is still the subject of much controversy and debate.
Weather stations use this to detect weather patterns; one example is the Doppler
What is radar?
Weather radars send out radio waves that hit rain, snow, and ice and bounce back to the radar station.
It laid the golden egg
What is a goose?
The fable is “The Goose and the Golden Egg.” It’s a story about greed.
This visual line separates the ocean from the sky
What is horizon?
The water doesn’t really meet the sky on the horizon; it’s an optical illusion. The beach is a great place to see the horizon unobscured.
Newspapers joined the digital age during this decade, with many news websites becoming popular
What is the 1990s?
As online news took off, newspapers faced competition from sources like blogs and social media.
This “unsinkable” ship sank during the 1910s
What is the RMS Titanic?
During its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912, it hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank. More than 1,500 passengers perished. Banker J. P. Morgan canceled his trip at the last moment, dodging the disaster.
When you vote in government elections, you are exercising one of the rights of citizenship and fulfilling a part of this type of duty
What is civic?
Many people vote only for the top of the ticket in presidential elections. State and local elections matter, often even more than federal elections.
This person cried wolf
Who is the boy?
The fable is “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” We all know people who always think the sky is falling. It not only gets tiresome but also makes it impossible to discern when a real emergency exists.
White lines that run across the street at an intersection are known as this
What is a crosswalk?
The lines indicate pedestrian walkways for crossing the street.
In the 1970s, these newspaper companies become involved in the Pentagon Papers controversy, appearing before the Supreme Court
What are The New York Times and The Washington Post?
The two newspapers won a case allowing them to continue covering this story.
The sinking of the RMS Lusitania occurred the year after the start of this war
What is World War I?
The Germans fired upon the ship on May 7, 1915, the year after World War I began.
This French word meaning “she” is also the name of a lifestyle magazine
What is elle?
Elle is a pronoun that also can mean “her” and “it,” depending on the noun it is replacing.
The ant worked all summer to store food, while this insect sang, danced, and played his violin instead of gathering his winter sustenance
What is the grasshopper?
The tale is “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” and the moral is to get work done before playing.
This letter is made up of two diagonal lines that cross in the center
What is X?
The alphabet comprises many letters that are formed solely of straight lines. Other letters are made of curved lines or a combination of straight and curved.
A news icon, she took over The Washington Post in 1963, and by the ’70s, led the paper to great popularity
Who is Katharine Graham?
Graham won a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her memoir, titled Personal History.
The United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War began during this decade
What are the 1950s?
U.S. military advisers were in Vietnam during the 1950s, and their number grew beginning in 1961. U.S. combat troops entered in 1965. The last American troops returned home in 1973.
You have this palindrome if you have more than one of these long, detailed, written or filmed accounts of heroic deeds
What are sagas?
The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and The Chronicles of Narnia are famous sagas.
The fable about a fox and this animal addresses the idea that familiarity breeds contempt
What is the lion?
“The Fox and the Lion” is a story that contrasts bashfulness and impudence.
Some believe these imaginary straight lines connect sacred places, such as Stonehenge and the Giza Pyramids
What are ley lines?
Some believe ley lines are energetic and are associated with magnetic fields.
In 1976, she became the first female co-anchor of a national nightly news program, ABC Evening News
Who is Barbara Walters?
This icon of journalism is also known for her interviews with world leaders and other famous figures