Statistics for U.S. History by Year, 1940-1959

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1959	This territory is admitted as the 50th and latest state to the union	Hawaii	99%
1957	This "King of Rock" releases the song Jailhouse Rock	Elvis Presley	98%
1941	The U.S. enters WWII after Japan attacks this naval base	Pearl Harbor	98%
1955	This woman is arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person	Rosa Parks	98%
1949	The United States joins this defense organization with 30 other countries	NATO	97%
1958	The U.S. establishes this agency in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik	NASA	96%
1953	Hugh Hefner begins publishing this adult magazine	Playboy	96%
1940	This burger chain opens its first location in San Bernardino, California	McDonald's	95%
1945	This secret project succeeds in creating and detonating the first atomic bomb	{Manhattan} Project	94%
1944	2,501 Americans die on D-Day while invading this German controlled region of France	Normandy	94%
1946	A riot breaks out in this San Francisco prison as a result of an escape attempt	Alcatraz	91%
1950	The U.S. along with UN forces go to war in this peninsula against communist forces	Korea	91%
1948	The U.S. airlifts supplies to this city after the Soviet Union places a land blockade	Berlin	85%
1954	This senator is condemned for his role in persecuting suspected communists	Joseph McCarthy	81%
1942	This general promises to return to the Philippines after its Japanese capture	Douglas MacArthur	77%
1951	This sitcom starring Lucille Ball debuts on CBS	I Love Lucy	76%
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower establishes this highway system	Interstate	72%
1947	A supposed UFO, reportedly a balloon, crashes near this New Mexico city	Roswell	71%
1943	FDR meets with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in this Middle Eastern city	Tehran	68%
1952	This city becomes a popular destination for tourists to watch live atomic bomb tests	Las Vegas	50%