The Roaring 20s
This 1920 constitutional amendment finally guaranteed women the right to vote.
19th
These shantytowns, named after the President many blamed for the Depression, popped up in cities across the country.
Hooverville
This event on December 7, 1941, was the "date which will live in infamy" and brought the U.S. into the war.
Pearl Harbor
This term describes the U.S. foreign policy focused on stopping the spread of communism.
Containment
This 1954 Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional in schools.
Brown v Board of Education
To get around the 18th Amendment, people visited these illegal, secret bars.
Speakeasy
This was FDR's first major action as President, intended to stop the run on banks and restore public confidence.
Emergency Banking Act or Bank Holiday
Germany, Italy, and Japan made up this alliance during the war.
Axis Powers
This 1950s Senator led a "witch hunt" for suspected communists within the U.S. government.
Joseph McCarthy
She is famously known for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a year-long boycott.
Rosa Parks
This 1925 trial in Tennessee pitted modern science against traditional religious fundamentalism regarding the teaching of evolution.
Scopes Monkey Trial
To gain public support for his New Deal programs, FDR used the radio to deliver these informal addresses.
Fireside Chats
The U.S. government used "military necessity" to justify sending 120,000 people of this descent to internment camps.
Japanese
This theory suggested that if one country in Southeast Asia fell to communism, its neighbors would surely follow.
Domino Theory
Unlike the non-violent approach of MLK, this leader initially advocated for "any means necessary" and self-defense.
Malcom X
She was the "New Woman" of the decade, known for short hair, shorter skirts, and defying traditional social norms.
Flappers
President Hoover’s philosophy of "Rugged Individualism" suggested this group—not the federal government—should provide relief.
Individuals
This term refers to the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Genocide
This 1962 event was the closest the U.S. and USSR ever came to actual nuclear war after missiles were discovered 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
Cuban Missile Crisis
These 1969 riots in New York City are considered the beginning of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Stonewall Riots
While the 18th Amendment started Prohibition, this amendment ended it in 1933.
21st
While the New Deal provided relief, it was actually this massive global event that finally ended the Great Depression.
World War II
To bring a swift end to the war in the Pacific, the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This 1964 incident involving U.S. destroyers led Congress to give LBJ nearly unlimited power to escalate the war in Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin
This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
Lyndon B. Johnson