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History Final - When
20th Century History final exam - when
Question | Answer |
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February 8, 1904 | Russo-Japanese War begins |
April 15, 1912 | Titanic Sinks |
June 28, 1914 | Sarievo Shooting |
August 15, 1914 | Panama Canal Opens |
February 24, 1917 | Russian Revolution |
April 6, 1917 | US joins WWI |
November 11, 1918 | Armistice Day (ends WWI) |
January 16, 1920 | Prohibition begins - 18th amendment |
October 29, 1929 | Black Tuesday - Stock market crashes |
January 30, 1933 | Hitler comes to power in Germany |
September 1, 1939 | German invasion of Poland |
December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor |
June 6, 1944 | D-day |
May 8, 1945 | V.E. Day (Victory in Europe) |
August 6, 1945 | First a-bomb - Little Boy |
August 9, 1945 | 2nd a-bomb, Fat Man, at Hiroshima |
June 25, 1950 | Korean War begins |
October 14, 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
November 22, 1963 | JFK Assassinated |
January 30, 1968 | Tet offensive |
April 4, 1968 | MLK Assassinated in Memphis by James Earl Ray |
June 5, 1968 | Robert Kennedy assassinated |
July 20, 1969 | Neil Armstrong walks on moon |
January 22, 1973 | Roe v. Wade |
August 15, 1973 | US bombing of Cambodia |
August 8, 1974 | Nixon Resigns |
April 30, 1975 | Saigon Falls |
January 28, 1986 | Challenger explosion |
November 9, 1989 | Berlin Wall Falls |
August 2, 1990 | Persion Gulf War |
December 1, 1991 | Soviet Union breaks up |