A Divided Union - Part B

Question 1

End of WWII

Answer 1

1945

Question 2

Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech

Answer 2

1946

Question 3

Marshall Aid begins in Europe

Answer 3

1947

Question 4

HUAC investigates the Hollywood Ten

Answer 4

1947

Question 5

Alger Hiss on trial

Answer 5

1948

Question 6

Berlin Airlift begins

Answer 6

1948

Question 7

China turns Communist

Answer 7

1949

Question 8

USSR explodes it’s first atomic bomb

Answer 8

1949

Question 9

Rosenbergs’ arrested

Answer 9

1950

Question 10

Korean War begins

Answer 10

1950

Question 11

Dwight D Eisenhower becomes President

Answer 11

1953

Question 12

Rosenbergs’ executed

Answer 12

1953

Question 13

McCarthy’s hearings against the army

Answer 13

1953

Question 14

McCarthy censured by the Senate

Answer 14

1954

Question 15

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) set up

Answer 15

1960

Question 16

John F Kennedy becomes the President

Answer 16

1961

Question 17

Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique

Answer 17

1963

Question 18

Lyndon B Johnson becomes President

Answer 18

1963

Question 19

Berkley Free Speech Movement

Answer 19

1964

Question 20

American troops sent to Vietnam

Answer 20

1965

Question 21

National Organisation for Women (NOW) set up

Answer 21

1966

Question 22

Richard M Nixon becomes President

Answer 22

1969

Question 23

Four students shit dead at Kent State University

Answer 23

1970

Question 24

Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Answer 24

1972

Question 25

Phyllis Schlafly set up STOP in opposition to the ERA

Answer 25

1972

Question 26

Watergate break-in

Answer 26

1972

Question 27

Nixon began his second term as President

Answer 27

1973

Question 28

Roe vs Wade decision: abortion a constitutional right

Answer 28

1973

Question 29

War Powers Act

Answer 29

1973

Question 30

President Nixon resigned; replaced be Gerald Ford

Answer 30

1974

Question 31

Privacy Act and the Congressional Budget Control Act

Answer 31

1974

Question 32

Harry S Truman becomes President

Answer 32

1945