American History 1900s

1. What were the name of the Wright brothers who pioneered aviation and changed the world in 1903?

2. Who points an accusing finger of moral responsibility in a recruitment poster for the American forces during World War I?

3. Where was the Titanic supposed to arrive in 1912?

4. The United States joined World War I after what ship was sunk by a German submarine?

5. Who was the US president during World War I?

6. To keep USA out of World War I, Germany promised to Mexico three US states to reconquer. Which one they did not promise?

7. First long distance telephone service in USA was demonstrated between New York and what other city in 1915?

8. From which country USA purchased Virgin Islands in 1916?

9. What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?

10. In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across what body of water?

11. Who was a prohibition agent who fought against Al Capone and whose group was named the "Untouchables?"

12. Al Capone was an organized crime boss in which city during the Prohibition era?

13. In 1937 a zeppelin airship exploded in flames over New Jersey. What was its name?

14. Which event led the United States to enter WWII?

15. Who was the US president at the start of WWII?

16. Which ship was sunk at Pearl Harbor when over 1100 US soldiers lost their lives?

17. Which American president ordered to use the atomic bomb against Japan in WWII?

18. What was the second city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in Word War II?

19. What United States general led the army in the Pacific and the fighting against Japan?

20. Who was George Marshall after whom the Marshall Plan was named in 1948?

21. In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights?

22. What religion did human rights activist Malcolm X turn to while in prison?

23. What territory agreed to join the United States as the 50th state in 1959?

24. What US president won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a peacemaker in the Russo-Japanese War?

25. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed US landing operation on which country in 1961?

26. Which US President ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba?

27. Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

28. In which city was US president John F. Kennedy assassinated on November 22, 1963?

29. What United States president resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal?

30. Which US President asked Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall?

31. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 is the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Where did it occurr?

32. In what US city a terrorist bomb blew up a portion of a federal building on April 19, 1995?

33. Which US president was accused of having an extramarital affair with a White House intern?

34. In which state at Columbine High School 15 people were killed in massacre in 1999?