1900s Quiz A-Z

Name the events, people, places or things that occurred from 1901-1999, ordered alphabetically

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Hint	Year	Answer
A) This Austrian becomes chancellor of Germany and later Nazi dictator	1933	Adolf Hitler
A) This physicist publishes his theory of relativity	1905	Albert Einstein
B) Decisive conflict between Allied forces and Nazis in the Ardennes area of Belgium	1944-1945	Battle of the Bulge
B) Russian political party aligned with socialism comes to power after conflict	1917-23	Bolshevik
C) This team wins the World Series, the last time until 2016	1907, 1908	Chicago Cubs
C) This automaker introduced its first car, the Six	1924	Chrysler
D) The Allied invasion of Normandy begins	1944	D Day
D) Severe wind storms that devastated agriculture in the Midwest during the Great Depression	1930s	Dust Bowl
E) First celebrated in the US to promote environmental conservation and importance	1970	Earth Day
E) Iconic skyscraper completed in New York City	1931	Empire State Building
F) This president serves 4 terms	1930-1944	Franklin Roosevelt
F) This archduke is assassinated in Sarajevo	1914	Franz Ferdinand
G) A category 5 hurricane smashes this coastal Texas city	Sept 1900	Galveston
G) French physicist Paul Villard discovers this type of radio wave while studying uranium decay	1900	Gamma
H) The first atomic bomb is dropped on this Japanese city	Aug 1945	Hiroshima
H) This act, which federally regulated railroads, is passed	1906	Hepburn
I) This luxury liner sinks in the Atlantic	1906	Iris
I) This country experiences political revolution to overthrow the Pahlavi dynasty	1979	Iran
J) This president is assassinated in a Dallas motorcade	1963	John F Kennedy
J) Rastafarianism originates in this Caribbean country	1930s	Jamaica
K) Lead singer of Nirvana is found dead from a self inflicted gunshot	1994	Kurt Cobain
K) The Soviet Union recovered this annexed area from Germany after the War	1946	Kaliningrad
L) This famous Parisian museum was robbed of the Mona Lisa in a major theft	1911	Louvre
L) This city was bombarded with air raids during the Nazi Blitz	1940-41	London
M) This German automaker introduces its first car	1900	Mercedes
M) This Chinese ruler enacts the Great Leap Forward, resulting in thousands of deaths	1958	Mao Zedong

Hint	Year	Answer
N) President Roosevelt enacts this plan of economic reform during the Great Depression	1933-1939	New Deal
N) This German city held the trials of Nazi war criminals	1945-1946	Nuremberg
O) This plains state is admitted as the 46th	1907	Oklahoma
O) This once massive empire ceases to exist	1922	Ottoman
P) Construction on this vital waterway begins	1904	Panama Canal
P) Era of the US ban on production and sale of alcohol	1920s	Prohibition
Q) This monarch is crowned and begins a 70 year reign	1952	Queen Elizabeth
Q) This Chinese dynasty comes to an end	1912	Qing
R) This country undergoes a revolution of change to adopt socialism	1917	Russia
R) Mass genocide occurs in this African country between the Hutu and Tutsi	1994	Rwanda
S) A massive 7.9 earthquake and fire devastates this city	1904	San Francisco
S) A massive pandemic of this virus begins	1918	Spanish Flu
T) The famous ocean liner makes it fatal voyage from the UK before striking an iceberg	1912	Titanic
T) A massive fire broke out at this clothing factory in New York, resulting in 146 casualties	1911	Triangle Shirtwaist
U) The RMS Lusitania is sunk by this German submarine	1915	U Boat
U) This Act lowered tariffs and established federal income tax	1913	Underwood
V) This city served as capital of unoccupied France during WW2	1940-44	Vichy
V) This treaty formally ended WW1 and established the League of Nations	1919	Versailles
W) These siblings recorded the first powered flight in Kitty Hawk, NC	1903	Wright
W) Re-elected in 1900 but assassinated the following September	1901	William McKinley
X) This group of mutant heroes were first published by Marvel comics	1963	X Men
X) Thousands of terracotta warriors of Emperor Shi Huangdi were unearthed near this Chinese city	1974	Xian
Y) This famous ballpark opened in the Bronx, home to some of baseballs' greatest players	1923	Yankee Stadium
Y) Allied members met in this Crimean port city after WW2 to discuss the reorganization of Germany	1945	Yalta
Z) Secret telegram calling for an alliance of Mexico and Germany against the US during WW1	1917	Zimmerman
Z) Germany recorded the first flight of these giant, blimp like airships over Lake Constance	1900	Zeppelin

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Nov 18, 2025

F) FDR was elected four times but did not serve four terms as he died at the beginning of the 4th.

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