Historical Fiction Topics
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16th Street Church bombing
1847 Mormon Trail
1905 Bloody Sunday--Russia
1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1908 Model-T
1913 Ford Assembly Line
1919 White Sox Scandal
1920 Prohibition
1945-1946 Nuremburg War Trials
1948 Gandhi assassinated
1955 Bus Boycott
1967 Freedom of Press
1974 Gas Shortage
1980 Moscow Olympic Games boycotted
1989 San Francisco Earthquake
AIDS Identified
Alamo
Alcatraz escape
Amelia Earhart lost
Apple – Microsoft
Armenian Genocide
Assassination of John Lennon
Assassination of Malcolm X
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Wounded Knee
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Beethoven
Berlin Wall
Betsy Ross
Black Panthers
Blacklisting / McCarthyism
Blood Diamonds
Bobby Kennedy Assassination
Bosnian/Serb Conflict
Boston Tea Party
Brown vs. Board of Education
Bubonic Plague
Building of Railroads-Golden Spike
Challenger
Chappaquiddick
Chicago Fires
Christopher Columbus
CIA Involvement in Iraq War
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Columbine Shooting
Crusades
Cuban Missile Crisis
D-Day
DNA Discovery
Donner Party
Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping
Ellis Island
Elvis on Ed Sullivan Show
Emancipation Proclamation
Emmett Till murder
Exxon Valdez
Fall of Saddam Hussein
First Olympics
Free Tibet
Freedom March
French Revolution
Ghettos in WWII
Gold Rush
Granada Invasion
Great Depression-Dust Bowl
Gulf War
Hindenburg
Hiroshima
History of KKK
Hostages in Iran
Hurricane Katrina
IRA Bombing in Ireland
Iran Contra Scandal
Japanese Internment camps
JFK Assassination
Jonestown Massacre
Kent State Massacre
LA Riots – 1960s or 1990s
Lacy Peterson Murder
Landing (or walk) on the Moon
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Lincoln Assassination
Little Rock Nine-Central High School Integration
Love Canal
Lunch counter sit-ins
Mandela Freed
March on Washington –war protests
Martin Luther King Assassination
Medical Experiments during the Holocaust
Mexican War
MLK “I Have a Dream” speech
Mount Everest Disaster
Mt. St. Helens Erupts
Muhammad Ali
Mumbai Massacre
NATO organized
New Deal-Roosevelt
New York Blackouts – 1950s or 1980s
Noriega (dictator)
NY Twin Towers Attack 9/11
Oil Spill—Alaskan Shores
Oklahoma City Bombing
Panama Canal
Patty Hearst Kidnapping
Peace Corps begins 1961
Pearl Harbor
Plymouth Rock
Pocahontas
Polly Klaas Kidnapping
Pony Express
Presidential Elections – Major
Protesting Apartheid-South Africa
Roe vs. Wade
Rosa Parks
Russian invasion of Afghanistan
Russian Revolution
Rwandan Genocide
Salem Witch Trials (ergoc poisoning)
Scottsboro Trial
Sinking of Lusitania
Slave Trade – U.S.
St Valentine’s Day Massacre
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Sudan – Darfur
Suez Canal Reopened
Texas Polygamist
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Trail of Tears
Truman wins unexpectedly
Tsunami of South Asia
Ugandan Genocide
Underground Railroad
USS Vincennes
Vietnam Battle
Vietnam Draft Dodging
Vietnamese Refugees to US
War of the Roses
War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast
Watergate
Watergate
Watts Riots
Westward Expansion
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Woodstock
World War 1 – specific battle
World War 2 – specific battle
Wright Brother’s First Flight