1920s
Overproduction, speculation, and income inequality collectively contributed to this major event at the decade’s end.
Stock Market Crash of 1929
This civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech.
DR. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
The assassination of this Austrian archduke sparked World War I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This Soviet satellite, launched in 1957, began the Space Race.
Sputnik
This suffragist worked alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton for women’s voting rights.
Susan B. Anthony
This cultural movement celebrated African American art and literature in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This leader of the Nation of Islam promoted Black nationalism and later moderated his views after a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Malcolm X
This alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
Central Powers
This U.S. space agency was created in 1958 in response to Soviet advances.
BONUS(100): what does NASA stand for?
NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This African American leader founded the Tuskegee Institute and promoted vocational education.
Booker T. Washington
This amendment was often associated with rising organized crime, and the banning of alcohol during the decade.
18th Amendment
This 1964 event helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act after state troopers attacked marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Bloody Sunday
This telegram encouraged Mexico to attack the United States.
Zimmerman Telegram
This speech by President Kennedy in 1961 committed the U.S. to landing a man on the Moon.
“Moon Speech” to Congress
This progressive president busted trusts and helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Theodore Roosevelt
This scandal involved secret leasing of federal oil reserves during Harding’s presidency.
Teapot Dome Scandal
This 1968 law prohibited discrimination in housing sales and rentals following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Fair Housing Act of 1968
This U.S. president proposed the Fourteen Points.
Woodrow Wilson
This Apollo mission successfully landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969.
Apollo 11
This African American scholar co-founded the NAACP and wrote The Souls of Black Folk.
W.E.B. Du Bois
This plan restructured Germany’s war debt payments and stabilized European economies in 1924.
Dawes Plan
This executive order desegregated the U.S. armed forces in 1948.
Executive Order 9981
This treaty officially ended World War I and punished Germany.
Treaty of Versailles
This 1967 treaty prohibited placing nuclear weapons in space.
Outer Space Treaty
This civil rights lawyer argued Brown v. Board of Education before becoming the first Black Supreme Court justice.
Thurgood Marshall