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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
George and Clancy
James and Herbert
2. Who points an accusing finger of moral responsibility in a recruitment poster for the American forces during World War I?
Uncle Sam
Uncle Tom
Uncle John
Uncle Ben
3. Where was the Titanic supposed to arrive in 1912?
New York
Baltimore
Boston
Norfolk
4. The United States joined World War I after what ship was sunk by a German submarine?
Queen Mary
Royal Iris
Lusitania
Merrimack
5. Who was the US president during World War I?
Woodrow Wilson
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Texas
Arizona
Louisiana
7. First long distance telephone service in USA was demonstrated between New York and what other city in 1915?
San Francisco
New Orelans
Seattle
Houston
8. From which country USA purchased Virgin Islands in 1916?
Spain
Denmark
Norway
France
9. What day marked the Wall Street crash and the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929?
Black Monday
Black Sunday
Black Friday
Black Tuesday
10. In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across what body of water?
Mediterranean sea
Caribbean sea
Atlantic ocean
Pacific ocean
11. Who was a prohibition agent who fought against Al Capone and whose group was named the "Untouchables?"
Johnny Torrio
Eliot Ness
Bugs Moran
John Dillinger
12. Al Capone was an organized crime boss in which city during the Prohibition era?
Baltimore
Boston
New York
Chicago
13. In 1937 a zeppelin airship exploded in flames over New Jersey. What was its name?
Kruger
Herbert
Hindenburg
Bismarck
14. Which event led the United States to enter WWII?
bombing of London
German invade of Poland
sinking of Lusitania
attack on Pearl Harbor
15. Who was the US president at the start of WWII?
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
16. Which ship was sunk at Pearl Harbor when over 1100 US soldiers lost their lives?
USS Arizona
USS Oklahoma
USS Louisiana
USS Virginia
17. Which American president ordered to use the atomic bomb against Japan in WWII?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Herbert Hoover
Dwight D. Eisenhower
18. What was the second city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on in Word War II?
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
Yokohama
Tokyo
19. What United States general led the army in the Pacific and the fighting against Japan?
Douglas MacArthur
George Marshall
Bernard Montgomery
George S. Patton
20. Who was George Marshall after whom the Marshall Plan was named in 1948?
President
Chief Justice
Secretary of State
Pilot
21. In which city Martin Luther King, Jr. organized the famous march for civil rights?
Philadelphia
Washington
New Orleans
Baltimore
22. What religion did human rights activist Malcolm X turn to while in prison?
Islam
Hinduism
Confucianism
Buddhism
23. What territory agreed to join the United States as the 50th state in 1959?
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
North Dakota
Alaska
24. What US president won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a peacemaker in the Russo-Japanese War?
Grover Cleveland
Jimmy Carter
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
25. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed US landing operation on which country in 1961?
Yugoslavia
Israel
Cuba
Egypt
26. Which US President ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba?
John F. Kennedy
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
27. Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
28. In which city was US president John F. Kennedy assassinated on November 22, 1963?
Phoenix
New Orelans
Houston
Dallas
29. What United States president resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal?
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
30. Which US President asked Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall?
Ronald Reagan
George Bush Sr.
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
31. The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 is the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Where did it occurr?
Hawaii
Alaska
Atlantic ocean
Caribbean sea
32. In what US city a terrorist bomb blew up a portion of a federal building on April 19, 1995?
Oklahoma City
St. Louis
Nashville
Memphis
33. Which US president was accused of having an extramarital affair with a White House intern?
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Roland Reagan
34. In which state at Columbine High School 15 people were killed in massacre in 1999?
Colorado
California
Nevada
Georgia
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.