Game: Name 1 extra thing about each decade, working backwards

Thread Games
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ie: Name 1 thing about the 2010s, then 2 things about the 2000s, then 3 things about the 1990s until you reach a decade you can’t complete. Aim to only list out facts that you can recall off the top of your head. If you’re really uncertain about an item, it’s acceptable to google it to confirm that it happened in the year you thought it did but restrict research to just items you’re already fairly sure about.

For me:

2010s

  1. Barack Obama was president

2000s

  1. 9/11 happened
  2. George Bush was president

1990s

  1. JNCO jeans
  2. Grunge took off
  3. WTO riots

1980s

  1. Michael Jackson was big
  2. Apple came out with their first computers
  3. Ronald Reagan was president
  4. Microsoft founded

1970s

  1. Disco was huge
  2. Stagflation
  3. Jimmy Carter was president
  4. Watergate scandal
  5. Vietnam war ended

1960s

  1. Hippy revolution
  2. Summer of Love in San Francisco
  3. Man on the moon
  4. Kennedy was president
  5. Bay of Pigs invasion
  6. Beatles came to America

1950s

  1. Eisenhower was president
  2. Mao was chairman of China
  3. Cold war started
  4. Soviets developed their first nuclear weapons
  5. Korean war
  6. Rationing ended in the UK
  7. Elvis Presley was big

1940s

  1. WWII
  2. Hitler was ruler of Germany
  3. FDR was president in the US
  4. Churchill was PM of England
  5. US developed the atomic bomb
  6. Communists take over China
  7. Battle of Britain
  8. George Orwell publishes 1984

1930s

  1. Great depression in the US
  2. Prohibition in the US
  3. Grapes of Wrath published
  4. Jazz age in Paris
  5. Al Capone ruled Chicago mob scene

I don’t know if I can come up with 4 more things I know about the 1930s. I can’t remember who was president during the 30s, I don’t know of any famous wars that happened in the 30s, I don’t know who were the famous singers or authors of the 30s and what they published. I feel like I could have muddled through the 1920s and the 1910s would have been a gimme due to WWI but I’m almost certain I wouldn’t be able to complete 1900s. I have almost no idea what occurred between 1900 and 1910, it’s a complete blank spot in history for me.

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Apple came out with their first computers in the 70s

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Lessee…

2010s
Twitter

2000s
[ol]
[li]War on Terror[/li][li]iPod/Phone[/li][/ol]

1990s
[ol]
[li]Bill Clinton [/li][li]Grunge Rock[/li][li]Beavis & Butthead[/li][/ol]

1980s
[ol]
[li]MTV[/li][li]Ronald Reagan[/li][li]LiveAid[/li][li]Berlin Wall breached[/li][/ol]

1970s
[ol]
[li]Disco[/li][li]Jimmy Carter Administration[/li][li]Sandinista Revolution[/li][li]Nixon Resigns[/li][li]Oil Crises[/li][/ol]

1960s
[ol]
[li]Vietnam War[/li][li]British Rock Invasion[/li][li]Space Race[/li][li]the 4 assasinations (JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, RFK)[/li][li]Biafra[/li][li]Star Trek on TV[/li][/ol]

1950s
[ol]
[li]Elvis[/li][li]Everest summited[/li][li]I Love Lucy[/li][li]Howl published[/li][li]I Like Ike[/li][li]DH Comet[/li][li]Army/McCarthy hearings[/li][/ol]
1940s
[ol]
[li]Manhattan Project[/li][li]D-Day[/li][li]X-1 breaks sound barrier[/li][li]Palestine partition/Israel independence[/li][li]Red China[/li][li]rise of the Peróns[/li][li]The Spruce Goose[/li][li]Churchill[/li][/ol]

1930s
[ol]
[li]Great Depression[/li][li]Abdication of Edward VIII[/li][li]New Deal[/li][li]Spanish Civil War[/li][li]Stalin’s purges[/li][li]Rise of the Nazis[/li][li]War of the Worlds broadcast[/li][li]The Hindenburg[/li][li]Amelia Earhart missing[/li][/ol]

1920’s
[ol]
[li]Prohibition[/li][li]Harlem Renaissance[/li][li]Talkies introduced in film[/li][li]Fascists take over Italy[/li][li]Lindbergh’s flight[/li][li]Stock market crash[/li][li]Trotsky exiled[/li][li]Silent Calvin Coolidge[/li][/ol] That’s it for ‘easily off the top of my head’ – a couple more 20s things came up after some paused thought (Ataturk founds Republic of Turkey; Vatican City-State recognized by Italy) to make it 10 there

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Mostly FDR

1900-1910 you need 12 items. I got 7 off the top of my head:

Wright Brothers’ first Flight
Death of Victoria, reign of Edward VII
Launch of the Ford Model T
President Teddy Roosevelt
Independence of Panama
First World Series
Admission of Oklahoma as a state

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Boy Scouts founded in England.

6

Teddy Bears invented (offshoot of President above)

7

The Great White Fleet
Second Boer War ended

That’s 11…

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2010-2015:

  1. Tsunami hits Japan

2000-2009:

  1. 9/11
    2: Kursk sinking

1990-1999:

  1. German reunification
  2. Gulf War
  3. end of the Soviet Union

1980-1989:

  1. Chernobyl
  2. Ronald Reagan president
  3. George Bush president
  4. Berlin Wall opened

1970-1979:

  1. US withdrawal from Vietnam
  2. Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
  3. Yom Kippur War
  4. Apollo-Soyuz
  5. Agnew and Nixon resignations

1960-1969

  1. Tet Offensive (and many other exciting events in Vietnam)
  2. Six-Day War
  3. JFK assassination (and others)
  4. USS Pueblo captured
  5. USS Thresher and Scorpion sink
  6. first moon landing

1951-1959

  1. Korean War
  2. end of WW II
  3. USS Nautilus visits North Pole
  4. Bikini and Eniwetok H-bomb tests
  5. Sputnik I
  6. Suez Crisis
  7. Edsel

1940-1949:

  1. A-bombs used against Japan
  2. death of FDR
  3. most of WW II
  4. Korea divided
  5. Berlin Airlift
  6. Chiang Kai-Shek moves to Taiwan
  7. Cold War begins
  8. first Arab-Israeli War

1930-1939:

  1. Nazis come to power in Germany
  2. Rape of Nanking
  3. Anschluss
  4. WW II begins
  5. Italy invades Ethiopia
  6. FDR elected first two times
  7. New Deal
  8. Edward VIII king
  9. Amelia Earhart disappears

1920-1929:

  1. end of WW I
  2. Teapot Dome scandal
  3. Great Depression begins
  4. Byrd flies to South Pole
  5. Lindbergh’s flight
  6. Stalin becomes head of Soviet Union
  7. Beer Hall Putsch
  8. Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy
  9. Georg and Maria von Trapp married
  10. Baby Ruth introduced

1910-1919:

  1. WW I
  2. Pancho Villa
  3. US occupies Nicaragua
  4. US invasion of Veracruz
  5. Amundsen reaches South Pole
  6. RMS Titanic sinks
  7. first Tarzan and Barsoom books published
  8. Russian Revolution
  9. first Transatlantic flight
  10. GSUSA formed
  11. first Girl Scout cookies sold
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1900-1909:

  1. Wright brothers’ first flight
  2. Teddy Roosevelt is President of the USA
  3. Russo-Japanese War
  4. Boer Wars
  5. Ford Model T
  6. Boxer Rebellion
  7. The Great San Francisco Earthquake
  8. Peary expedition to North Pole
  9. Ty Cobb top hitter in baseball
  10. First movie (“The Great Train Robbery”)
  11. First Nobel Prizes awarded
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:smack:

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You need a twelfth one…