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American History 1900s

U.S. history from 1900-1999.
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1. What were the name of the Wright brothers who pioneered aviation and changed the world in 1903?
Samuel and Hubert
Orville and Wilbur
James and Herbert
George and Clancy
2. Who points an accusing finger of moral responsibility in a recruitment poster for the American forces during World War I?
Uncle Tom
Uncle Ben
Uncle Sam
Uncle John
3. Where was the Titanic supposed to arrive in 1912?
Baltimore
Norfolk
Boston
New York
4. The United States joined World War I after what ship was sunk by a German submarine?
Royal Iris
Queen Mary
Merrimack
Lusitania
5. Who was the US president during World War I?
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
6. To keep USA out of World War I, Germany promised to Mexico three US states to reconquer. Which one they did not promise?
New Mexico
Louisiana
Arizona
Texas
7. First long distance telephone service in USA was demonstrated between New York and what other city in 1915?
Houston
New Orelans
Seattle
San Francisco
8. From which country USA purchased Virgin Islands in 1916?
Norway
Denmark
Spain
France
9. What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?
Black Friday
Black Sunday
Black Monday
Black Tuesday
10. In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across what body of water?
Mediterranean sea
Pacific ocean
Atlantic ocean
Caribbean sea
11. Who was a prohibition agent who fought against Al Capone and whose group was named the "Untouchables?"
John Dillinger
Bugs Moran
Johnny Torrio
Eliot Ness
12. Al Capone was an organized crime boss in which city during the Prohibition era?
Chicago
New York
Baltimore
Boston
13. In 1937 a zeppelin airship exploded in flames over New Jersey. What was its name?
Herbert
Kruger
Hindenburg
Bismarck
14. Which event led the United States to enter WWII?
attack on Pearl Harbor
bombing of London
sinking of Lusitania
German invade of Poland
15. Who was the US president at the start of WWII?
John F. Kennedy
Harry S. Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Franklin Roosevelt
16. Which ship was sunk at Pearl Harbor when over 1100 US soldiers lost their lives?
USS Oklahoma
USS Virginia
USS Louisiana
USS Arizona
17. Which American president ordered to use the atomic bomb against Japan in WWII?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
18. What was the second city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in Word War II?
Hiroshima
Yokohama
Nagasaki
Tokyo
19. What United States general led the army in the Pacific and the fighting against Japan?
George Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Bernard Montgomery
George S. Patton
20. Who was George Marshall after whom the Marshall Plan was named in 1948?
President
Secretary of State
Chief Justice
Pilot
21. In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights?
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
22. What religion did human rights activist Malcolm X turn to while in prison?
Buddhism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Islam
23. What territory agreed to join the United States as the 50th state in 1959?
Hawaii
Alaska
Puerto Rico
North Dakota
24. What US president won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a peacemaker in the Russo-Japanese War?
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jimmy Carter
Grover Cleveland
25. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed US landing operation on which country in 1961?
Cuba
Yugoslavia
Israel
Egypt
26. Which US President ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba?
John F. Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
27. Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
John F. Kennedy
28. In which city was US president John F. Kennedy assassinated on November 22, 1963?
New Orelans
Phoenix
Houston
Dallas
29. What United States president resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal?
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
30. Which US President asked Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall?
Bill Clinton
George Bush Sr.
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
31. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 is the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Where did it occurr?
Caribbean sea
Alaska
Atlantic ocean
Hawaii
32. In what US city a terrorist bomb blew up a portion of a federal building on April 19, 1995?
Oklahoma City
Memphis
Nashville
St. Louis
33. Which US president was accused of having an extramarital affair with a White House intern?
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Roland Reagan
Donald Trump
34. In which state at Columbine High School 15 people were killed in massacre in 1999?
Nevada
Georgia
Colorado
California
2 Comments
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Level 87
Feb 12, 2021
George Marshall was also a General. You should eliminate that as an option. Love the rest of it though.
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Level 53
Feb 12, 2021
Thanks for that! I have replaced general with pilot.