So I was thinking about the last century, and what would be the textbook-required issues for each decade, in American History:
They also tend to have, in most American History textbooks, a section on the water-cooler, second-tier items, so here are five more pieces for each decade as well, of stuff not covered in the main, above:
2010s
Trump
Social Media Culture and Violence
Paris Accords
Occupy and Arab Spring
Opioid Crisis and Healthcare
2000s
9/11
Great Recession
Smartphones
Obama
Afghanistan and Iraq
1990s
End of Cold War
Internet and Digitization
Globalism and Peace Movements
Partisan Politics
NAFTA and Automation
1980s
Home computers
Reagan
VHS and Cable
Decline of Unions
AIDS Epidemic
1970s
Watergate
Feminist Movement
Earth Day and Environmental Movement
Opening Asian Trade
Decline of the Cities
1960s
Vietnam and Hippies
Civil Rights
Moon Landing and Space Race
Kennedy/Assassinations
Great Society
1950s
Suburbia and Car Culture
Television and Advertising
Desegregation Begins
Red Scare
Korea
1940s
U.S. Entry into WWII and Internment
Atomic Technology
Post-War Global Order (U.N., Brenton Woods, GI Bill etc)
Computers
Plastics
1930s
Great Depression
FDR and New Deal
Dust Bowl
Resurgent Klan
Hollywood
1920s
Suffrage
Tenements and Immigration
Moving Pictures
Jazz on the Radio
Prohibition
They also tend to have, in most American History textbooks, a section on the water-cooler, second-tier items, so here are five more pieces for each decade as well, of stuff not covered in the main, above:
10s
LGBT Rights
#MeToo
Self-Driving Car
Streaming Services
Citizens United v. FEC
00s
Bush v. Gore
Human Genome Project
NSA
YouTube and Memes
MCU
90s
Gulf War
Americans with Disabilities Act
Coffee Shop Culture
Dream Team
The Simpsons
80s
Challenger Disaster
Hip hop
Spielberg Movies
Video Games
WalMart's National Expansion
70s
Disco
Oil Crisis
Hijackings
Wounded Knee and AIM
Bruce Lee
60s
Bob Dylan
UFW and Cesar Chavez
To Kill a Mockingbird
British Invasion and Psychedelica
First Superbowl
50s
Military Industrial Complex
Modern Vaccinations
Jet Age Travel
Beat Generation
Rock n Roll
40s
J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI and the CIA
National Laboratories
Woody Guthrie and the Almanac Singers
Merrill Lynch: Insurance and Shareholders
Oklahoma!
30s
Blues
Superman
Skyscrapers
Jesse Owens and Joe Louis
Alcoholics Anonymous
20s
Capone and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Edwin Hubble and Robert Goddard
The Great Gatsby
Newspaper Comics
Scopes Trial
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