Important Dates from Term 2

Question 1

FDR begins the New Deal:

Year

Answer 1

1933

Question 2

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor:

Month, Day, Year

Answer 2

December 7, 1941

Question 3

United States enters WW II:

Month, Day, Year

Answer 3

December 8, 1941

Question 4

D-Day:

Year

Answer 4

1944

June 6

Question 5

United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

Year

Answer 5

1945

August 6 & 8

Question 6

Korean War:

Year - Year

Answer 6

1950-1953

Question 7

Desegregation of public schools:

Year

Answer 7

1954

Question 8

Rosa Parks arrested & Montgomery bus boycott:

Year

Answer 8

1955

Question 9

Cuban Missile Crisis:

Year

Answer 9

1962

Question 10

President Kennedy assassinated:

Year

Answer 10

1963

Question 11

Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated:

Year

Answer 11

1968

Question 12

Robert Kennedy assassinated:

Year

Answer 12

1968

Question 13

Richard Nixon resigns:

Year

Answer 13

1974

Question 14

First Apple II home computer:

Answer 14

1977

Question 15

9/11:

Year

Answer 15

2001

Question 16

First iPhone:

Year

Answer 16

2007

Question 17

Barack Obama elected first African American President:

Election Year

Answer 17

2008

Question 18

Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon:

Year

Answer 18

1969

Question 19

Vietnam War, Gulf of Tonkin incident to end of war:

Year - Year

Answer 19

1964 - 1975

Question 20

Civil Rights Act of 1964:

Year

Answer 20

1964