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Decade Topic Ideas
Decade topics below are OPTIONAL. You are not limited to these topics.
1900-1910
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, First Silent Movie, Wright Brothers Make First Flight, Upton Sinclair Writes The Jungle, Typhoid Mary Capture for the First Time, NAACP Is Founded
1910-1920
Sinking of the Titanic, WWI, Boy Scouts Established in U.S., Rockefeller Becomes America’s First Billionaire, First Pulitzer Prizes Awarded,
1920-1930
Flappers, Henry Ford and the Model T, Prohibition, St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Stock Market Crash of 1929, Women Granted the Right to Vote in U.S., Harlem Renaissance Begins, Time Magazine Founded, J. Edgar Hoover Appointed FBI Director, Flapper Dresses in Style, The Scopes (Monkey) Trial, Henry Ford Announces 40-Hour Work Week, Babe Ruth Makes Home-Run Record, First Mickey Mouse Cartoon, First Academy Awards
1930-1940
Bonnie and Clyde’s Crime Spree, Empire State Building Opens, Great Depression, Hindenburg Disaster, Amelia Earhart Flies Solo Across Atlantic, Lindbergh’s Baby Kidnapped, The Dust Bowl, Alcoholics Anonymous Founded, Frank Lloyd Wright Designs Fallingwater, March of Dimes Founded, Superman First Appears in Comic Books, WWII, Wizard of Oz Movie Premiers
1940-1950
Truman Defeats Dewey Upset, Pearl Harbor Attacked, Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombed, Joe DiMaggio Begins His 56-Game Hitting Streak, Mount Rushmore Completed, Manhattan Project Begins, FDR Dies, Jackie Robinson Becomes First Black Baseball Player in the Major Leagues, Marshall Plan,
1950-1960
Disneyland Opens, Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan’s Show, First Modern Credit Card Introduced, Segregation Ruled Illegal in U.S., Cold War, Civil Rights Movement, Car Seat Belts Introduced, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed for Espionage, Report Says Cigarettes Cause Cancer, Emmett Till Murdered, James Dean Dies in Car Accident, Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins, Ray Kroc Opens His First McDonald’s, Rosa Parks Bus Boycott, Dr. Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat, NASA Founded
1960-1970
Charles Manson and His “Family” Kill, First Man on the Moon, MLK Jr. Assassinated, Vietnam War, Woodstock Music Festival, Freedom Riders Challenge Segregation on Interstate Buses, Peace Corps Founded, Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell’s Soup Can, Cuban Missile Crisis, First Wal-Mart Opens, James Meredith Admitted Into Segregated University of Mississippi, Johnny Carson Takes Over the Tonight Show, Marilyn Monroe Found Dead, Famous Escape from Alcatraz, JFK Assassinated, March on WA, Medgar Evers Murdered, Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure, First Super Bowl, First Heart Transplant, Sesame Street First Airs
1970-1980
Jonestown Massacre, Kent State Shootings, Watergate Scandal, VCRs Introduced, President Nixon Resigns, Microsoft Founded, Saturday Night Live Premiers, Elvis Found Dead, Star Wars Movie Released, Iran Takes American Hostages in Tehran, Sony Introduces the Walkman
1980-1990
Exxon Valdez Oil Spills, Mt. St. Helens Erupts, AIDS Identified, Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM, First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, DNA First Used to Convict Criminals, World Wide Web Invented
1990-2000
Columbine Massacre, Oklahoma City Bombing, Waco Cult Compound Raided, Gardner Heist: The Biggest Art Theft in History, Magic Johnson Announces He Has HIV, Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer is Arrested, Riots in LA after Rodney King Verdict, Use of the Internet Grows Exponentially, World Trade Center Bombed, eBay is Founded, OJ Simpson Found Not Guilty of Double Murder, First Harry Potter book released, Tiger Woods Wins Masters, Clinton Impeached