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Decades Quiz
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Social Studies
10th Grade
08/22/2013

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The stock market crash on that infamous Tuesday in October
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20's
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U.S astronauts first walk on the moon
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60's
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Dr. King gives his famous "i have a dream" speech in Washington DC
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60's
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Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
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10's
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Japan lunches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawii
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40's
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The fall of the Berlin wall which
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80's
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The Spanish American War
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<1910
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Brown v. Topeka Bd. of Education Supreme Court decision that ended segregated schools in the South
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50's
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The Korean War
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50's
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AIDs virus spread and becomes well known in the U.S.
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80's
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The Great Depression "cripples" the U.S. economy
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30's
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WWI
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10's
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U.S. expiriments with prohibition which outlaws the sales, distribution, and making of alcohol
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20's
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President Kennedy is assasinated in Dallas, Texas
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60's
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The first McDonalds franchise opened in Illinois
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50's
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WWII
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40's
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President Bill Clinton era and operation storm
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90's
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Babe Ruth, jazz music, Charles Lindberg and young louis Armstrong all entertain Americans
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20's
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President Ronald Reagan era
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80's
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Final Indian War concludes which opens the great plains
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<1910's
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Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat in Alabama
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50's
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Fidel Castro becomes the leader of communist Cuba
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50's
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D-Day, Normandy, France... Operation Overlord
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40's
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President Roosevelt initiates the New Deal to revive America
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30's
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Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in baseball
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40's
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