Each unique PowerPoint presents 10 major themes that emerged in that decade. Each of the 12 PPTs total around 40-50 slides (581 slides total), have rich information and visuals, hyperlinks to relevant videos on YouTube, and include writing prompts, discussion questions and other activities. The themes for each unit are listed below...enjoy!
 
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1890s (49 PPT slides)
1) A Gilded Age
2) Industrialization
3) Robber Barons
4) Captains of Industry
5) Wealth Gap
6) Immigration
7) Nativism
8) Social Gospel
9) Social Darwinism
10) Workers’ Rights
 
1900s-1910 (50 PPT slides)
1) Imperialism
2) Anti-imperialism
3) Progressivism
4) Trust-busting
5) Muckraking
6) Pop Culture
7) Big Stick Diplomacy
8) Dollar Diplomacy
9) Panama Canal
10) Flight
 
1910s (35 PPT slides)
1) Stability
2) Election of 1912
3) War Production
4) Declaration of War
5) Selective Service Act
6) Americanization Movement
7) Gospel of the Clean Plate
8) Demonization of the Hun
9) Big Government
10) A World Leader
 
1920s (52 PPT slides)
1) Republican Decade
2) Harlem Renaissance
3) Great Migration
4) Lost Generation
5) Prohibition
6) Flappers
7) Boom
8) Red Scare
9) National Icons
10) Stock Crash
 
1930s (51 PPT slides)
1) Great Depression
2) Unemployment
3) Bank Failures
4) Dust Bowl
5) Migration
6) Role of government
7) Fireside Chats
8) A New Deal
9) New Deal Programs
10) New Living Standards
 
1940s (42 PPT slides)
1) G.I. Generation
2) Pearl Harbor
3) Enlistment
4) Internment
5) Domestic Front
6) New Inventions
7) American Propaganda
8) Nuclear Developments
9) Segregation questioned
10) Origins of the Cold War
 
1950s (66 PPT slides)
1) Civil Rights
2) Nuclear Family
3) The Cold War
4) Rock n’ Roll
5) Beatniks
6) Space Race
7) Baby Boom
8) Arms Race
9) Red Scare
10) Television
 
1960s (51 PPT slides)
1 Instability
2 Counterculture
3 Assassination
4 Civil Rights
5 The Moon
6 Anti-war
7 Cuba
8 Sex
9Drugs
10 Rock n’ Roll
 
1970s (50 PPT slides)
1) Green Revolution
2) Cold War Warms
3) Women’s Rights
4) Vietnamization
5) ‘Me’ Decade
6) Stagflation
7) Watergate
8) Terrorism
9) Oil Crisis
10) Music
 
1980s (45 PPT slides)
1) Glasnost & Perestroika
2) Automobile recovery
3) Factory relocations
4) Pop and Rock
5) A.I.D.S. Epidemic
6) Natural Disasters
7) Other Disasters
8) Consumerism
9) Reaganomics
10) Technology
 
1990s (45 PPT slides)
1) Hip Hop
2) Scandal
3) Gulf War
4) Prosperity
5) Millennials
6) Race Tensions
7) Multiculturalism
8) Environmentalism
9) Internet Revolution
10) Political Correctness
 
2000s (45 PPT slides)
1) Social Media
2) Generation Z
3) Healthy living
4) Postmodernity
5) Rebirth of Hipster
6) Foreign Terrorism
7) Domestic Terrorism
8) Political Polarization
9) The Great Recession
10) U.S. dominance challenged