Timeline

Question 1

1920:

Answer 1

• Election of Warren Harding
• 19th Amendment: female suffrage
• US rejection of the League

Question 2

1921:

Answer 2

• Emergency Quota Act
• Conviction of Sacco & Vanzetti
• Washington Naval Conference

Question 3

1924:

Answer 3

• J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
• Dawes Plan

Question 4

1925:

Answer 4

• ‘Monkey Trial’ in Tennessee
• Nellie Tayloe Ross, first female State Governor

Question 5

1929:

Answer 5

• Wall Street Crash
• Peak of Dow Jones Average
• ‘Valentine’s Day Massacre’

Question 6

1932:

Answer 6

• Franklin Roosevelt elected
• Slump of Dow Jones Average
• March by ‘Bonus Army’ in Washington

Question 7

1933:

Answer 7

• Assassination attempt on Franklin Roosevelt
• First New Deal
• Repeal of Prohibition

Question 8

1934:

Answer 8

• Securities and Exchange Commission
• ‘Indian New Deal’
• Washington Naval Treaty overturned by Japan

Question 9

1935:

Answer 9

• Assassination of Huey Long
• Supreme Court ruling against NRA
• Neutrality Act

Question 10

1937:

Answer 10

• ‘Roosevelt Recession’
• Golden Gate Bridge opened
• Japanese invasion of China

Question 11

1939:

Answer 11

• Film, Gone With the Wind, released
• Poland invaded by Germany & USSR

Question 12

1940:

Answer 12

• Franklin Roosevelt elected for third term
• Film, The Grapes of Wrath, released
• Fall of France

Question 13

1941:

Answer 13

• Lend-Lease Act
• Mass rally by America First Committee
• US entry into world war

Question 14

1942:

Answer 14

• War Production Board established
• Internment of Japanese Americans
• Battle of Midway

Question 15

1944:

Answer 15

• Breton Woods conference
• GI Bill of Rights
• Allied invasion of Europe

Question 16

1945:

Answer 16

• Death of Franklin Roosevelt
• Nationwide strikes by 4.6 million workers
• Yalta & Potsdam summit meetings

Question 17

1947:

Answer 17

• CIA established
• General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade
• Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan

Question 18

1949:

Answer 18

• NATO founded
• Launch of Truman’s Fair Deal
• Communist revolution in China

Question 19

1950:

Answer 19

• NSC-68 accepted by President Truman
• Rise of Joseph McCarthy
• Start of Korean War

Question 20

1951:

Answer 20

• General MacArthur sacked by Truman
• Japanese Peace Treaty Conference

Question 21

1954:

Answer 21

• Brown vs Board of Education
• Geneva Accords

Question 22

1957:

Answer 22

• School desegregation crisis at Little Rock
• Peak of ‘baby boom’
• Sputnik launched by USSR

Question 23

1959:

Answer 23

• Khrushchev’s state visit to US
• Castro’s revolution in Cuba

Question 24

1960:

Answer 24

• Election of John F. Kennedy
• Book, To Kill a Mockingbird, published
• U2 Crisis and collapse of Paris summit

Question 25

1963:

Answer 25

• Assassination of John F. Kennedy
• March on Washington
• Test Ban Treaty signed

Question 26

1964:

Answer 26

• Civil Rights Act
• Economic Opportunity Act: War on Poverty
• Civil Rights Act Passed
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Question 27

1965:

Answer 27

• Voting Rights Act
• Watts Riots
• Escalation of US war in Vietnam

Question 28

1968:

Answer 28

• Assassination of Robert Kennedy
• Assassination of Martin Luther King
• Tet Offensive by NLF

Question 29

1969:

Answer 29

• Television speech by President Nixon appealing to the ‘Silent Majority’
• Apollo Moon landing
• Policy of ‘Vietnamisation’ introduced

Question 30

1972:

Answer 30

• Re-election of Nixon
• Nixon’s visit to China

Question 31

1973:

Answer 31

• Watergate Affair
• OPEC oil price crisis
• Roe vs Wade
• Paris Peace Accords: end of Vietnam War

Question 32

1975:

Answer 32

• Assassination attempts on President Ford
• Microsoft founded
• Fall of Saigon