Statistics for The cold war years 1947-1989 #1: USA

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Hint	Answer	Year	% Correct
This invasion of Cuba backed by the USA fails	Bay of pigs invasion	1961	91%
This 13 days long crisis occurs as the USSR places missiles on Cuba that can reach all major cities in the US except Seattle	Cuban missile crisis	1964	91%
Alaska becomes the 49th state of the USA, and another state becomes the 50th	Hawaii	1959	91%
This young president is assasinated driving in his car through the streets of Dallas	John F. Kennedy	1963	91%
This civil rights movement leader is assasinated in Memphis, Tennesee	Martin Luther King jr.	1968	91%
The most famous american fast food chain is founded	McDonald's	1955	91%
The US boycots the olympic games in what city?	Moscow	1980	91%
This important western military alliance is established	NATO	1949	91%
This popular household apparatus was developed with color for the first time	Television	1951	91%
An epidemic breaks out of this sexually transmitted disease	AIDS	1984	82%
This former American general is inaugurated as president	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1953	82%
This hollywood star sings happy birthday for the president and dies later this year	Marilyn Monroe	1962	82%
Muhammad Ali was stripped of his boxing world championship for refusing to participate in this deadly war	Vietnam war	1967	82%
The secret bombing campaign of this country bordering Vietnam continues	Cambodia	1966	73%
The forgotten war starts in Korea and this famous American general lands in Incheon	General MacArthur	1950	73%
This president enters office	George H. W. Bush	1989	73%
Richard nixon nominates this vice president who is later going to assume the presidency	Gerald R. Ford	1973	73%
The first of this type of nuclear weapon, whose first letter is a H, is detonated in the pacific	Hydrogen bomb	1952	73%
Students storm US embassasy and hold 66 people hostage in which country?	Iran	1979	73%
This economic aid plan to help europe recover from WWII was signed by president Truman	Marshall plan	1948	73%
This newly inaugrated president is shot in Washington D.C.	Ronald Reagan	1981	73%
Michael Jackson releases this album that is an instant hit	Thriller	1982	73%
President Richard Nixon Resigns over charges of this scandal	Watergate	1974	73%
This incumbent president proposes his famous "Great Society" program	Lyndon B. Johnson	1965	64%
A treaty is signed stating that this important shipping lane will be handed back by the US on Dec 31, 1999	Panama canal	1977	64%
This astronomical space engineering feat was reached by the crew of Apollo 11	The moon landing	1969	64%
The white house is accused of having sold what to Iran	Weapons	1985	64%
Fires spread throughout this US national park	Yellowstone	1988	64%
The winter olympic games are held in which US state	California	1960	55%
Jimmy carter succesfully helps sign peace between Israel and Egypt at what presidential retreat?	Camp david	1978	55%
This rocket explodes shortly after taking off	Challenger	1986	55%
Advertisements of these tobacco based sticks are banned	Cigarettes	1971	55%
Jimmy carter is elected US president and owns what kind of farm?	Peanut farm	1976	55%
The foreign policy doctrine that focuses on containing the spread of communism instituted by president Truman	Truman doctrine	1947	55%
This Caribbean country was invaded by the US	Grenada	1983	45%
What does Ronald Reagan say to gorbachev in Berlin	Tear down this wall	1987	45%
This human rights movement begins picking up pace	American civil rights movement	1956	36%
The US and the USSR sign what nuclear restrictions treaty that also shares its name with a common household product	SALT 1	1972	36%
This act was signed into law to try to calm down the aforementioned movement	Civil rights act of 1957	1957	27%
The first american satellite is launched	Explorer I	1958	27%
This magical computing device was first developed by Ed Roberts	Personal computer	1975	27%
Several students are shot and killed in anti-war protests at which universities	Kent state and Jackson state	1970	18%
This period of fright officially ends after Senator Joseph Mccarthy of Wisconsin is censored from the US Senate	McCarthyism	1954	18%