U.S. Events
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100
This event shocked the nation when the world trade center buildings collapsed.
What is September 11 2001?
100
This crisis began on October 14, 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
This event on December 7, 1941, was "a day which shall live on in infamy".
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
100
This famous physicist was convicted of Inquisition in 1633.
Who is Galileo?
100
Franklin D. Roosevelt created this on April 10, 1933.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
200
This war began on April 12, 1861.
What is the Civil War?
200
This leader of the Soviet Union threw a temper tantrum on October 12, 1960?
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
200
Adolf Hitler reoccupied this place on March 7, 1936.
What is the Rhineland?
200
This political party conveyed in Philadelphia in 1856
What is the Know - Nothings?
200
Lyndon B. Johnson announced his presidential goals under this alias.
What is the Great Society?
300
The "Chicago Eight" plead this in 1969.
What is Not Guilty?
300
In 1954, this man asked for action against communism.
Who is John Dulles?
300
These two men met in on March 22, 1942.
Who is Gandhi and Cripps?
300
This battle happened on January 8, after the war of 1812 ended.
What is the battle of New Orleans?
300
Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother died on this day in 1884.
What is Valentine's Day?
400
This Civil rights activist was assassinated on February 21, 1965.
Who is Malcom X?
400
The launch of this in 1957 caused the U.S. to put an emphasis in Math and Science programs.
What is Sputnik?
400
This supreme ruler survived an assassination attempt in 1939.
Who is Hitler?
400
His "95 thesis" was posted in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
400
Lyndon Johnson sent federal troops to this state in 1965.
What is Alabama?
500
This country had nationalists wound five representatives in 1954.
What is Puerto Rico?
500
This former Russian leader's body was removed from Lenin's tomb in 1961.
Who is Stalin?
500
The Soviet Union counterattacked a city in 1942 named after this leader.
Who is Stalin?
500
This act was enacted by parliament in 1765?
What is the Stamp Act?
500
This president went to China for peace talks in 1972.
Who is Richard Nixon?
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