Things You Gotta Know For The Humongous,

Terms

HUAC (House Un-American Affairs Committee)

Hooverville

Japanese Internment

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Victory Garden

Watergate

Zoot Suit Riot

Events (You'll need to be able to place these events in the proper decade)

1920s

19th Amendment giving women the right to vote

Scopes Trial

Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic

Stock Market Crash

Prohibition

1930s

Dust Bowl

Great Depression

Joe Louis captures world heavyweight championship

Hitler’s invasion of Poland, start of WWII

Jesse Owens’ Olympic Feats

1940s

Atomic Bombing

Pearl Harbor

D-Day

First Computer

Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in baseball

1950s

Rock ‘n’ Roll tops the charts

Korean War

Brown vs. Board of Education

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

The Beats

1960s

JFK becomes president

US troops sent to Vietnam

Civil Rights Act

Armstrong walks on the moon

1970s

Watergate

26th Amendment gives 18 year olds the right to vote

Punk Rock

Vietnam War ends

1980s

First Compact Discs

MTV

Ronald Reagan