Volume 4: The Modern Age d

Question 1

Italian troops in North Africa surrender

Answer 1

1943

Question 2

Juan Peron leads a revolt in Argentina

Answer 2

1943

Question 3

D-Day: Allied soldiers land at Normandy

Answer 3

1944

Question 4

Six million Jews have been killed in the Holocaust

Answer 4

1945

Question 5

The founding of the United Nations

Answer 5

1945

Question 6

The U. S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 6

1945

Question 7

World War II officially ends

Answer 7

1945

Question 8

War over the French control of Indochina

Answer 8

1946-1954

Question 9

India and Pakistan gain independence from Britain

Answer 9

1947

Question 10

Palestine is partitioned

Answer 10

1947-1948

Question 11

Israel becomes a country

Answer 11

1948

Question 12

The Marshall Plan

Answer 12

1948

Question 13

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is assassinated

Answer 13

1948

Question 14

National Party comes to power in South Africa

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

The Communist Party takes control of China

Answer 15

1949

Question 16

Korean War

Answer 16

1950-1953

Question 17

Eva “Evita” Peron dies

Answer 17

1952

Question 18

Gamal Abdel Nasser comes to power

Answer 18

1952

Question 19

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi regains control of Iran

Answer 19

1953

Question 20

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 20

1954

Question 21

French give up claim to Vietnam

Answer 21

1954

Question 22

U. S. tests atomic bombs in the Pacific

Answer 22

1954

Question 23

Armed forces rebel against Argentinian president Peron

Answer 23

1955

Question 24

Bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

Answer 24

1955

Question 25

Lumumba petitions Belgian government for the Congo’s freedom

Answer 25

1956

Question 26

Suez Crisis

Answer 26

1956

Question 27

Italian troops in North Africa surrender

Answer 27

1943

Question 28

Soviet Union launches Sputnik

Answer 28

1957

Question 29

John F. Kennedy wins Pulitzer prize for Profiles in Courage

Answer 29

1957

Question 30

Revolution in Cuba puts Fidel Castro in power

Answer 30

1959

Question 31

Congo gains independence from Belgium

Answer 31

1960

Question 32

Nigeria and Zaire become independent

Answer 32

1960

Question 33

Berlin Wall is built

Answer 33

1961

Question 34

Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, first man to orbit the Earth

Answer 34

1961

Question 35

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 35

1962

Question 36

Civil rights protests

Answer 36

1962-1966

Question 37

Ruanda-Urundi is divided into Rwanda and Burundi

Answer 37

1962

Question 38

John F. Kennedy is assassinated

Answer 38

1963

Question 39

Vietnam War

Answer 39

1964-1975

Question 40

U. S. enters Vietnam War

Answer 40

1965

Question 41

Beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China

Answer 41

1966

Question 42

Six-Day War`

Answer 42

1967

Question 43

Civil War in Nigeria

Answer 43

1967-1970

Question 44

Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated

Answer 44

1968

Question 45

Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia

Answer 45

1968

Question 46

American astronauts walk on the moon

Answer 46

1969

Question 47

IRA starts to campaign for a united Ireland

Answer 47

1969

Question 48

ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, is created

Answer 48

1969

Question 49

Bangladesh becomes independent

Answer 49

1971

Question 50

Black September takes hostages at Olympics

Answer 50

1972

Question 51

U. S. signs treaty to withdraw from Vietnam

Answer 51

1973

Question 52

Yom Kippur War

Answer 52

1973

Question 53

OPEC increases oil prices; gas shortages result

Answer 53

1973-1974

Question 54

Mozambique is free from Portuguese control

Answer 54

1975

Question 55

General Franco dies in Spain, ends dictatorship

Answer 55

1975

Question 56

Mao Zedong dies

Answer 56

1976

Question 57

Begin and Sadat win the Nobel Peace Prize

Answer 57

1978

Question 58

Rebel group assassinates king of Afghanistan

Answer 58

1978

Question 59

Shah of Iran overthrown

Answer 59

1979

Question 60

USSR invades Afghanistan

Answer 60

1979

Question 61

Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island

Answer 61

1979

Question 62

Iran-Iraq War

Answer 62

1980-1988

Question 63

Israel invades Lebanon

Answer 63

1982

Question 64

Argentinian government overthrown in favor of democracy

Answer 64

1983

Question 65

Indira Gandhi assassinated

Answer 65

1984

Question 66

Factory gas leak in Bhopal, India

Answer 66

1984

Question 67

Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR

Answer 67

1985

Question 68

Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Answer 68

1986

Question 69

Space shuttle Challenger explodes during liftoff

Answer 69

1986

Question 70

U. S. and USSR sign the INF treaty

Answer 70

1987

Question 71

Hole in the ozone layer confirmed

Answer 71

1987

Question 72

Tiananman Square massacre

Answer 72

1989

Question 73

Berlin Wall comes down

Answer 73

1989

Question 74

Ceaucescu is overthrown in Romania

Answer 74

1989

Question 75

Iraq invades Kuwait

Answer 75

1990

Question 76

Tim Berners-Lee creates the World-Wide Web

Answer 76

1990

Question 77

East and West Germany are reunited

Answer 77

1990

Question 78

Nelson Mandela is released from prison

Answer 78

1991

Question 79

Gorbachev resigns; Communist Party outlawed in USSR

Answer 79

1991

Question 80

America goes to war with Iraq

Answer 80

1991

Question 81

Genocide begins in Rwanda

Answer 81

1994

Question 82

Nelson Mandela is elected the first black president of South Africa

Answer 82

1994

Question 83

Terrorists attack World Trade Center in New York, Pentagon in Washington DC

Answer 83

2001