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The cold war years 1947-1989 #1: USA - Statistics
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Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | Year | % Correct |
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| The most famous american fast food chain is founded | McDonald's | 1955 | 93%
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| This important western military alliance is established | NATO | 1949 | 90%
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| This former American general is inaugurated as president | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1953 | 88%
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| The first of this type of nuclear weapon, whose first letter is a H, is detonated in the pacific | Hydrogen bomb | 1952 | 88%
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| This young president is assasinated driving in his car through the streets of Dallas | John F. Kennedy | 1963 | 88%
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| 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 | 86%
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| This economic aid plan to help europe recover from WWII was signed by president Truman | Marshall plan | 1948 | 86%
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| Muhammad Ali was stripped of his boxing world championship for refusing to participate in this deadly war | Vietnam war | 1967 | 86%
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| This civil rights movement leader is assasinated in Memphis, Tennesee | Martin Luther King jr. | 1968 | 83%
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| This popular household apparatus was developed with color for the first time | Television | 1951 | 83%
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| This invasion of Cuba backed by the USA fails | Bay of pigs invasion | 1961 | 81%
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| Alaska becomes the 49th state of the USA, and another state becomes the 50th | Hawaii | 1959 | 81%
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| This president enters office | George H. W. Bush | 1989 | 79%
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| The US boycots the olympic games in what city? | Moscow | 1980 | 79%
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| President Richard Nixon Resigns over charges of this scandal | Watergate | 1974 | 79%
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| An epidemic breaks out of this sexually transmitted disease | AIDS | 1984 | 76%
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| This hollywood star sings happy birthday for the president and dies later this year | Marilyn Monroe | 1962 | 76%
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| This newly inaugrated president is shot in Washington D.C. | Ronald Reagan | 1981 | 76%
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| The secret bombing campaign of this country bordering Vietnam continues | Cambodia | 1966 | 74%
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| Richard nixon nominates this vice president who is later going to assume the presidency | Gerald R. Ford | 1973 | 71%
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| This incumbent president proposes his famous "Great Society" program | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1965 | 71%
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| The forgotten war starts in Korea and this famous American general lands in Incheon | General MacArthur | 1950 | 67%
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| Students storm US embassasy and hold 66 people hostage in which country? | Iran | 1979 | 67%
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| The foreign policy doctrine that focuses on containing the spread of communism instituted by president Truman | Truman doctrine | 1947 | 67%
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| Fires spread throughout this US national park | Yellowstone | 1988 | 62%
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| A treaty is signed stating that this important shipping lane will be handed back by the US on Dec 31, 1999 | Panama canal | 1977 | 60%
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| This astronomical space engineering feat was reached by the crew of Apollo 11 | The moon landing | 1969 | 60%
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| This Caribbean country was invaded by the US | Grenada | 1983 | 57%
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| The white house is accused of having sold what to Iran | Weapons | 1985 | 57%
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| Michael Jackson releases this album that is an instant hit | Thriller | 1982 | 55%
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| This rocket explodes shortly after taking off | Challenger | 1986 | 52%
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| What does Ronald Reagan say to gorbachev in Berlin | Tear down this wall | 1987 | 52%
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| Jimmy carter succesfully helps sign peace between Israel and Egypt at what presidential retreat? | Camp david | 1978 | 50%
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| The winter olympic games are held in which US state | California | 1960 | 48%
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| The US and the USSR sign what nuclear restrictions treaty that also shares its name with a common household product | SALT 1 | 1972 | 45%
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| This human rights movement begins picking up pace | American civil rights movement | 1956 | 43%
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| Advertisements of these tobacco based sticks are banned | Cigarettes | 1971 | 43%
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| Jimmy carter is elected US president and owns what kind of farm? | Peanut farm | 1976 | 40%
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| This act was signed into law to try to calm down the aforementioned movement | Civil rights act of 1957 | 1957 | 31%
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| This period of fright officially ends after Senator Joseph Mccarthy of Wisconsin is censored from the US Senate | McCarthyism | 1954 | 31%
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| The first american satellite is launched | Explorer I | 1958 | 29%
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| Several students are shot and killed in anti-war protests at which universities | Kent state and Jackson state | 1970 | 29%
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| This magical computing device was first developed by Ed Roberts | Personal computer | 1975 | 21%
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