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American History 1900s

U.S. history from 1900-1999.
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1. What were the name of the Wright brothers who pioneered aviation and changed the world in 1903?
James and Herbert ✓
George and Clancy ✓
Samuel and Hubert ✓
Orville and Wilbur ✓
2. Who points an accusing finger of moral responsibility in a recruitment poster for the American forces during World War I?
Uncle John ✓
Uncle Tom ✓
Uncle Ben ✓
Uncle Sam ✓
3. Where was the Titanic supposed to arrive in 1912?
Baltimore ✓
Norfolk ✓
New York ✓
Boston ✓
4. The United States joined World War I after what ship was sunk by a German submarine?
Lusitania ✓
Queen Mary ✓
Merrimack ✓
Royal Iris ✓
5. Who was the US president during World War I?
William Howard Taft ✓
Theodore Roosevelt ✓
Woodrow Wilson ✓
Warren G. Harding ✓
6. To keep USA out of World War I, Germany promised to Mexico three US states to reconquer. Which one they did not promise?
Texas ✓
Louisiana ✓
Arizona ✓
New Mexico ✓
7. First long distance telephone service in USA was demonstrated between New York and what other city in 1915?
San Francisco ✓
Houston ✓
New Orelans ✓
Seattle ✓
8. From which country USA purchased Virgin Islands in 1916?
Spain ✓
Denmark ✓
France ✓
Norway ✓
9. What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?
Black Friday ✓
Black Tuesday ✓
Black Sunday ✓
Black Monday ✓
10. In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across what body of water?
Atlantic ocean ✓
Mediterranean sea ✓
Caribbean sea ✓
Pacific ocean ✓
11. Who was a prohibition agent who fought against Al Capone and whose group was named the "Untouchables?"
John Dillinger ✓
Eliot Ness ✓
Johnny Torrio ✓
Bugs Moran ✓
12. Al Capone was an organized crime boss in which city during the Prohibition era?
Chicago ✓
Baltimore ✓
New York ✓
Boston ✓
13. In 1937 a zeppelin airship exploded in flames over New Jersey. What was its name?
Kruger ✓
Bismarck ✓
Herbert ✓
Hindenburg ✓
14. Which event led the United States to enter WWII?
sinking of Lusitania ✓
bombing of London ✓
German invade of Poland ✓
attack on Pearl Harbor ✓
15. Who was the US president at the start of WWII?
Franklin Roosevelt ✓
Harry S. Truman ✓
Dwight Eisenhower ✓
John F. Kennedy ✓
16. Which ship was sunk at Pearl Harbor when over 1100 US soldiers lost their lives?
USS Louisiana ✓
USS Virginia ✓
USS Arizona ✓
USS Oklahoma ✓
17. Which American president ordered to use the atomic bomb against Japan in WWII?
Franklin D. Roosevelt ✓
Herbert Hoover ✓
Dwight D. Eisenhower ✓
Harry S. Truman ✓
18. What was the second city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in Word War II?
Tokyo ✓
Nagasaki ✓
Hiroshima ✓
Yokohama ✓
19. What United States general led the army in the Pacific and the fighting against Japan?
George S. Patton ✓
Bernard Montgomery ✓
Douglas MacArthur ✓
George Marshall ✓
20. Who was George Marshall after whom the Marshall Plan was named in 1948?
Chief Justice ✓
Pilot ✓
President ✓
Secretary of State ✓
21. In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights?
New Orleans ✓
Philadelphia ✓
Washington ✓
Baltimore ✓
22. What religion did human rights activist Malcolm X turn to while in prison?
Confucianism ✓
Hinduism ✓
Islam ✓
Buddhism ✓
23. What territory agreed to join the United States as the 50th state in 1959?
Hawaii ✓
North Dakota ✓
Alaska ✓
Puerto Rico ✓
24. What US president won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a peacemaker in the Russo-Japanese War?
Franklin D. Roosevelt ✓
Jimmy Carter ✓
Grover Cleveland ✓
Theodore Roosevelt ✓
25. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed US landing operation on which country in 1961?
Israel ✓
Cuba ✓
Egypt ✓
Yugoslavia ✓
26. Which US President ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba?
Dwight Eisenhower ✓
Jimmy Carter ✓
John F. Kennedy ✓
Richard Nixon ✓
27. Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy ✓
Lyndon Johnson ✓
Dwight Eisenhower ✓
Richard Nixon ✓
28. In which city was US president John F. Kennedy assassinated on November 22, 1963?
Phoenix ✓
New Orelans ✓
Dallas ✓
Houston ✓
29. What United States president resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal?
Jimmy Carter ✓
Gerald Ford ✓
Ronald Reagan ✓
Richard Nixon ✓
30. Which US President asked Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall?
George Bush Sr. ✓
Ronald Reagan ✓
Bill Clinton ✓
Jimmy Carter ✓
31. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 is the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Where did it occurr?
Hawaii ✓
Alaska ✓
Atlantic ocean ✓
Caribbean sea ✓
32. In what US city a terrorist bomb blew up a portion of a federal building on April 19, 1995?
Memphis ✓
Nashville ✓
St. Louis ✓
Oklahoma City ✓
33. Which US president was accused of having an extramarital affair with a White House intern?
Roland Reagan ✓
Barack Obama ✓
Bill Clinton ✓
Donald Trump ✓
34. In which state at Columbine High School 15 people were killed in massacre in 1999?
Georgia ✓
Nevada ✓
California ✓
Colorado ✓
nerdalert
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Level 85
Feb 12, 2021
George Marshall was also a General. You should eliminate that as an option. Love the rest of it though.
Nenadbs
+1
Level 53
Feb 12, 2021
Thanks for that! I have replaced general with pilot.
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