-
Eighteenth Amendment
Prohibiting the sale of alcohol anywhere in the U.S. -
Nineteenth Amendment
Ratification, granting women the right to vote. -
Scopes Trial Ban
Tennessee school teacher John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution . -
The Jazz Singer
Al Jolson's, The Jazz Singer, the first talking motion pictures premieres, marketing the beginning of the end of the silent film era. -
The Great Depression
Herbert Hoover becomes president. Stock Market Crash turns into Great Depression. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt Policy
Created the new deal with four major achievements: Economic Recovery, Job Creation, Investment in Pubic Works, and Civil Uplift. -
21st Amendment
Repeal of prohibition; alcohol becomes legal again. -
The Dust Bowl
An area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move. -
Social Security Act
A law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caused about 2400 dead, almost 200 planes destroyed and 8 battleships destroyed or damaged -
G.I Bill of Rights
A law created that provided a range of benefits to returning Veterans from war. -
Truman Presidency
Enters office after death of FDR; ends The Great Depression. -
Jackie Robinson
Becomes first African American that breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier. -
The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
An organization formed in Washington, D.C., comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression. -
Foreign Policy
One of Eisenhower’s main goals of foreign policy was to contain communism. A great fear was that of the domino effect, the belief that if one country fell to communism, so would another and another and so on. -
Presidency of John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest President to die. -
Civil Rights Act
a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin -
Kent State University Shooting
Four students from Kent State University in Ohio were killed and nine wounded by National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War spread in Cambodia. -
26th Amendment
The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied by the United States or by any State on account of age. -
Defense of Marriage Act
Allowed states to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages granted under the laws of other states. At this time NO states allowed same-sex marriages. -
Obergefell v. Hodges Case
The landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court held in a 5-4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same sex-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
