America Dates

Question 1

The first Red scare

Answer 1

1919-20

Question 2

USSR and USA become allies

Answer 2

1941

Question 3

CORE set up

Answer 3

1942

Question 4

Detroit race riots

Answer 4

June 1943

Question 5

Yalta conference

Answer 5

February 1945

Question 6

Roosevelt dies

Answer 6

April 1945

Question 7

Potsdam conference

Answer 7

July 1945

Question 8

The navy becomes desegregated

Answer 8

1946

Question 9

The term ‘iron curtain’ coined by churchill

Answer 9

March 1946

Question 10

FELP set up by Truman

Answer 10

March 1947

Question 11

Cominform set up

Answer 11

1947

Question 12

Truman announces a policy of containment and to financially support Greece

Answer 12

1947

Question 13

Berlin Crisis

Answer 13

1948-49

Question 14

Alger Hiss working for a peace organisation

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

Soviet Union prevents the development of a democracy in Czechoslavokia

Answer 15

1948

Question 16

NATO was formed

Answer 16

1949

Question 17

China becomes communist

Answer 17

1949

Question 18

Evidence found of soviet atomic testing

Answer 18

August 1949

Question 19

Julius Rosenberg accused of being a communist spy

Answer 19

August 1949

Question 20

Alger Hiss accused of perjury

Answer 20

1950

Question 21

McCarthy internal security act

Answer 21

September 1950

Question 22

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed

Answer 22

June 1953

Question 23

McCarthy’s televised investigations

Answer 23

April-June 1954

Question 24

Brown v Board

Answer 24

May 1954

Question 25

McCarthy publicly reprimanded from the senate

Answer 25

December 1954

Question 26

Brown II

Answer 26

1955

Question 27

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 27

December 1955

Question 28

University of Alabama accepts Autherine Lucy

Answer 28

1956

Question 29

Little Rock

Answer 29

September 1957

Question 30

SDS set up

Answer 30

1959

Question 31

SNCC formed

Answer 31

April 1960

Question 32

Pill approved for contraceptive use

Answer 32

1960

Question 33

Freedom Riders

Answer 33

May 1961

Question 34

Albany Movement

Answer 34

October 1961-August 1962

Question 35

Voters Education Project

Answer 35

1962-1968

Question 36

James Meredith Case

Answer 36

June 1962

Question 37

Birmingham March

Answer 37

April 1963

Question 38

Kennedy killed

Answer 38

1963

Question 39

March on Washington

Answer 39

August 1963

Question 40

Freedom Summer

Answer 40

Summer 1964

Question 41

Chaney Goodman and Schwerner killed by KKK

Answer 41

June 1964

Question 42

Civil Rights Act

Answer 42

July 1964

Question 43

Malcolm X assassinated by the Nation of Islam

Answer 43

February 1965

Question 44

Voting Rights Act

Answer 44

August 1965

Question 45

Watts Riots

Answer 45

August 1965

Question 46

Black Panthers set up

Answer 46

October 1966

Question 47

Race riots

Answer 47

Summer 1967

Question 48

Kerner Report

Answer 48

February 1968

Question 49

Martin Luther King assassinated

Answer 49

April 1968

Question 50

Fair housing act

Answer 50

April 1968

Question 51

Black Power Olympics salute

Answer 51

October 1968

Question 52

Paris civil rights protests almost overthrew the government

Answer 52

1968

Question 53

Internal divisions in Black Panthers killed 27 members

Answer 53

1969

Question 54

Bolshevik party seize power and take over

Answer 54

October 1917