US 1920-1973 Key Dates

Question 1

Prohibition introduced

Answer 1

January 1920

Question 2

When did Ford sell its 10 millionth Model T car?

Answer 2

June 1924

Question 3

When we’re Sacco and Vanzetti executed?

Answer 3

August 1927

Question 4

When was ‘The Jazz Singer’, the first ever ‘talking film’ released?

Answer 4

October 1927

Question 5

When was the Wall Street Crash that started the Great Depression?

Answer 5

October 1929

Question 6

When did Franklin D Roosevelt defeat President Hoover in the presidential election?

Answer 6

November 1932

Question 7

When did Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal begin?

Answer 7

March 1933

Question 8

When did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbour making USA declare war on Japan and officially enter WWII?

Answer 8

December 1941

Question 9

When did President Roosevelt die?

Answer 9

1945

Question 10

Who took over when Franklin D Roosevelt died?

Answer 10

Harry S Truman

Question 11

When did the USA drop nuclear bombs on Japan, leading to an end to WWII?

Answer 11

August 1945

Question 12

What Japanese cities did USA drop nuclear bombs over?

Answer 12

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 13

When did General Dwight D Eisenhower become president?

Answer 13

November 1952

Question 14

When was racial segregation in schools declared illegal?

Answer 14

May 1954

Question 15

What was the court case that lead to racial segregation of schools being declared illegal?

Answer 15

Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka

Question 16

When did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on the bus leading to Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Answer 16

December 1955

Question 17

When did John F Kennedy become president?

Answer 17

November 1960

Question 18

When did Martin Luther King deliver his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech?

Answer 18

August 1963

Question 19

When was president JFK assassinated?

Answer 19

November 1963

Question 20

Who succeeded JFK as president?

Answer 20

Lyndon B Johnson

Question 21

When was the Civil Rights Act passed, banning discrimination in jobs, voting and housing?

Answer 21

June 1964

Question 22

When did North Vietnamese boats attack two US warships escalating the conflict in Vietnam?

Answer 22

August 1964

Question 23

When did the US Supreme Court rule that women have a right to an abortion?

Answer 23

January 1974

Question 24

What was the name of the case that ruled women have a right to abortion?

Answer 24

Roe vs Wade