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?

James and Herbert ✓

Orville and Wilbur ✓

Samuel and Hubert ✓

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 Ben ✓

Uncle Sam ✓

Uncle John ✓

Uncle Tom ✓

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

New York ✓

Baltimore ✓

Norfolk ✓

Boston ✓

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

Queen Mary ✓

Royal Iris ✓

Merrimack ✓

Lusitania ✓

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

Warren G. Harding ✓

Woodrow Wilson ✓

Theodore Roosevelt ✓

William Howard Taft ✓

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

Arizona ✓

Louisiana ✓

New Mexico ✓

Texas ✓

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

San Francisco ✓

Houston ✓

Seattle ✓

New Orelans ✓

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

Spain ✓

France ✓

Norway ✓

Denmark ✓

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

Black Sunday ✓

Black Friday ✓

Black Tuesday ✓

Black Monday ✓

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

Mediterranean sea ✓

Atlantic ocean ✓

Caribbean sea ✓

Pacific ocean ✓

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

Bugs Moran ✓

John Dillinger ✓

Johnny Torrio ✓

Eliot Ness ✓

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

Boston ✓

New York ✓

Baltimore ✓

Chicago ✓

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

Bismarck ✓

Herbert ✓

Kruger ✓

Hindenburg ✓

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

sinking of Lusitania ✓

bombing of London ✓

German invade of Poland ✓

attack on Pearl Harbor ✓

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

Dwight Eisenhower ✓

Franklin Roosevelt ✓

Harry S. Truman ✓

John F. Kennedy ✓

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

USS Louisiana ✓

USS Arizona ✓

USS Virginia ✓

USS Oklahoma ✓

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

Herbert Hoover ✓

Dwight D. Eisenhower ✓

Harry S. Truman ✓

Franklin D. Roosevelt ✓

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

Yokohama ✓

Tokyo ✓

Nagasaki ✓

Hiroshima ✓

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

Douglas MacArthur ✓

Bernard Montgomery ✓

George Marshall ✓

George S. Patton ✓

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

Secretary of State ✓

Chief Justice ✓

Pilot ✓

President ✓

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

Philadelphia ✓

Baltimore ✓

Washington ✓

New Orleans ✓

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

Hinduism ✓

Confucianism ✓

Islam ✓

Buddhism ✓

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

Alaska ✓

Hawaii ✓

North Dakota ✓

Puerto Rico ✓

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt ✓

Grover Cleveland ✓

Theodore Roosevelt ✓

Jimmy Carter ✓

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

Egypt ✓

Cuba ✓

Israel ✓

Yugoslavia ✓

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

Richard Nixon ✓

John F. Kennedy ✓

Jimmy Carter ✓

Dwight Eisenhower ✓

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

John F. Kennedy ✓

Richard Nixon ✓

Lyndon Johnson ✓

Dwight Eisenhower ✓

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

Phoenix ✓

New Orelans ✓

Dallas ✓

Houston ✓

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

Jimmy Carter ✓

Ronald Reagan ✓

Richard Nixon ✓

Gerald Ford ✓

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

Ronald Reagan ✓

George Bush Sr. ✓

Bill Clinton ✓

Jimmy Carter ✓

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

Atlantic ocean ✓

Alaska ✓

Caribbean sea ✓

Hawaii ✓

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

Memphis ✓

Nashville ✓

St. Louis ✓

Oklahoma City ✓

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

Donald Trump ✓

Bill Clinton ✓

Roland Reagan ✓

Barack Obama ✓

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

Georgia ✓

Colorado ✓

California ✓

Nevada ✓

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