20th Century History Quiz

Question 1

What was the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport and sale of alcohol?

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 2

What was the codename of the U.S. government research project that developed the atomic bomb?

Accepted Answer

Manhattan Project

Question 3

What day were the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001?

Accepted Answer

September 11th (9/11)

Question 4

Who was the first and only queen of Hawaii who was overthrown by white planters?

Accepted Answer

Queen Liliuokalani

Question 5

Who was vice president in 1901 and then became the youngest president in U.S. history known for conservation

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 6

Which law banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration?

Accepted Answer

Voting Rights Act

Question 7

Who was Woodrow Wilson?

Accepted Answer

President during World War I

Question 8

Who succeeded John F. Kennedy as President of the United States after his assassination?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 9

Which government agency created during the New Deal insures deposits to guarantee depositors’ money will be safe?

Accepted Answer

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Question 10

Who were the Axis Powers?

Accepted Answer

Group of countries led by Germany, Italy, and Japan in World War II

Question 11

Who was the most influential civil rights leader known for his "I Have a Dream" speech and nonviolent protest?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 12

What 1935 law set up a pension system for old people who were retired or retiring?

Accepted Answer

Social Security Act

Question 13

What was the program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade?

Accepted Answer

Berlin Airlift

Question 14

Which program was pushed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to promote economic recovery during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 15

Who was a prominent figure in the Nation of Islam and advocated for Black empowerment?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 16

What was the U.S. policy of Containment during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Policy of keeping communism from spreading

Question 17

What is the American military base attacked by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941 ?

Accepted Answer

Pearl Harbor

Question 18

What was the Nazi attempt to kill all Jews under their control?

Accepted Answer

Holocaust

Question 19

Who was the leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

Ho Chi Minh

Question 20

Word used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930’s when the region suffered drought and dust storms.

Accepted Answer

Dust Bowl

Question 21

Which was the period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture?

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 22

Rosa Parks is famous for her role in:

Accepted Answer

The Montgomery Bus Protest

Question 23

Which executive order issued by President FDR forcibly relocated Japanese Americans to camps during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Executive Order 9066

Question 24

The Civil Rights Act of 1964:

Accepted Answer

Outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race

Question 25

Who had polio and was elected President in 1932 leading the United States in Great Depression and World War II?

Accepted Answer

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 26

Who was the 35th President in 1961 that faced a number of foreign crises and was assassinated in Dallas, Texas?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy

Question 27

The 38th Parallel is the dividing line between which two countries?

Accepted Answer

North Korea and South Korea

Question 28

Apollo 11 was the first mission to:

Accepted Answer

Reach the moon

Question 29

What is the name for government returning people to their origin country which was covered up deportations in the 1930's

Accepted Answer

Repatriation

Question 30

What was the name of the British ocean liner sunk by a German submarine in 1915?

Accepted Answer

Lusitania

Question 31

Cesar Chavez led several high profile and successful protests for the rights of:

Accepted Answer

farm workers

Question 32

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a standoff between the United States and which other country?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 33

What words refer to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash leading to the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Black Tuesday

Question 34

What is the Nineteenth Amendment?

Accepted Answer

1920 constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

Question 35

What was the document during World War I that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico?

Accepted Answer

Zimmerman Note

Question 36

Who became President after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt and made the decision drop Atomic weapons on Japan?

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 37

Who were the countries led by Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union that fought Axis Powers in World War II?

Accepted Answer

Allies

Question 38

Who was Francisco “Pancho” Villa?

Accepted Answer

A Mexican leader who played a major role in the Mexican Revolution

Question 39

Who was the dictator of Nazi Germany that started World War II and led the Holocaust

Accepted Answer

Adolf Hitler

Question 40

Which battle is considered the turning point of World War II in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Midway

20th Century History Quiz

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