Statistics for Embarrassing Chapters in US History, Part 2

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The nation goes to war with this country, ostensibly over "WMDs" which are never found.	Iraq	94%
This war kills or maims millions, including 200,000 Americans, and ultimately ends in failure.	Vietnam	92%
From 1692 to 1693 20 people are executed for witchcraft in this Massachusetts town.	Salem	91%
The first atomic bomb deployed against a civilian population is dropped on this Japanese city, obliterating it completely and inflicting hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties.	Hiroshima	90%
Nathan Bedford Forrest and others form this organization in 1865 to terrorize "blacks" and promote "white" supremacy.	Ku Klux Klan	89%
Three days later, a second atomic bomb is dropped on this city.	Nagasaki	89%
This war leaves half a million Americans dead, having been initiated by the secession of Southern states for perhaps the worst of all possible reasons.	Civil War	88%
Over 100,000 people with ancestors from this country were sent to internment camps during WW2.	Japan	84%
At the height of the Red Scare this senator leads sensationalist attacks against alleged Communists.	Joseph McCarthy	77%
Government policy for about 100 years of forced relocations, land grabs, and outright massacres amount to what is essentially systematic genocide of this large and diverse group.	American Indians	70%
The USAF participates in the bombing of this German city, leaving 25,000 dead.	Dresden	66%
In 1812 a poorly planned invasion of this country ends in fiasco.	Canada	65%
The original sin of the nation, inherited from European colonists, this "peculiar institution" condemned tens of millions of people to lives of unimaginable suffering and hardship.	Slavery	63%
This slave in 1857, when unsuccessfully suing for his own independence, was told by the Supreme Court that he could not be a US citizen due to his race and status as property.	Dred Scott	49%
The war against republican freedom fighters in this country, won by the US after the Spanish-American War, may have resulted in as many as a million deaths.	Philippines	48%
Firebombing of this city in 1945 kills 100,000 people in a single day.	Tokyo	48%
After directing Bad Boys, Armageddon, and Pearl Harbor, this man is allowed to continue making movies.	Michael Bay	38%
During this massacre in Vietnam, hundreds of unarmed civilians are gang raped, murdered, and/or mutilated. Only one Army Lieutenant is convicted. He gets a slap on the wrist.	My Lai	36%
This senator speaks for more than 24 hours nonstop to try and defeat Civil Rights legislation	Strom Thurmond	28%
This Supreme Court decision upholds the legality of racial Segregation.	Plessy v. Ferguson	25%
During this 1932-1972 study, African Americans who thought they were receiving free health care were intentionally infected with syphillis and then not given medical treatment for it.	Tuskegee experiment	24%

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