Statistics for The 20th Century

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
1945–1991	The U.S. and Soviet Union fight this "war"	Cold War	98%
1969	This man becomes the first to walk on the moon	Neil Armstrong	96%
1912	This famous ocean liner hits an iceberg and sinks	RMS Titanic	93%
1941	Japanese forces launch a surprise attack on this naval base	Pearl Harbor	92%
1962	The U.S. and Soviet Union have a tense stand-off over missiles in this country	Cuba	88%
1914	This archduke is assassinated, sparking WWI	Franz Ferdinand	82%
1918–1920	This pandemic kills over 3% of the world's population	{Spanish} Flu	74%
1999	Atmospheric levels of this greenhouse gas reach 365ppm, an increase of over 25% since 1900	Carbon Dioxide	73%
1922	This "ism" rises to prominence as Benito Mussolini becomes leader of Italy	Fascism	73%
1958–1961	This ruler's "Great Leap Forward" causes 30 million people to starve to death	Mao Zedong	72%
1915	This empire systematically kills an estimated 1.5 million Armenians	Ottoman Empire	72%
1955	Jonas Salk announces a vaccine for this disease	Polio	72%
1946	The ENIAC is hailed as the world's first example of this common modern device	Computer	65%
1933	This political figure says "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"	Franklin D. Roosevelt	65%
1979	Protestors seize power in this country and establish a theocracy	Iran	63%
1930	This leader marches to the sea to get salt and defy British rule	Mohandas Gandhi	61%
1936	This British king abdicates	Edward VIII	58%
1908–1927	This car model, nicknamed the "Tin Lizzie", sells over 16.5 million units	Model T	58%
1927	This pilot becomes the first to make a non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris	Charles Lindbergh	45%
1916	Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. clinic to provide information about this practice	Birth Control	35%

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