Can you name the year in which these
major 20th century events took place?

created by rockgolf
  • Enter a 4-digit year in the box below
  • Correctly named years will show up below
  • Click any empty Headline or Year to answer for that location
  • Source: Also try the FIRST "Major 20th century events by year "
  • As with the original, linked above, you can guess at the years but you'll have to be close. And quick! You've got about 10 seconds per clue.
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HeadlineYear
American women win the vote
Apartheid ends in South Africa:
law to treat races equally
Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs --
a single-season record that would last for 34 years
Bill Gates and Paul Allen start Microsoft Corp.
to develop software for Altair computer
Brown vs. Board of Education
ends 'separate but equal' school segregation
Congress passes 'GI Bill of Rights' to help veterans
Deadly AIDS disease identified
Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine proven effective in University of Pittsburgh tests
First jet airplane takes flight
Germany surrenders: V.E. Day celebrated
Henry Ford organizes the first major U.S. assembly line to produce Model T cars
Hitler launches 'Kristallnacht,' ordering Nazis to commit acts of violence against German Jews
Israel achieves statehood
HeadlineYear
Mao Tse-tung establishes Peoples Republic of China: Nationalists flee to Formosa (Taiwan)
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet Premier:
begins era of 'Glasnost'
Panama Canal opens,
linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' stimulates environmental protection movement
Scientists at Bell Labs invent the transistor
U.S.S.R dissolves,
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns: Boris Yeltsin takes over
United Nations is officially established
Soviets launch Sputnik, first space satellite:
space race begins
United States withdraws last ground troops from Vietnam
Violence erupts at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
White House sex scandal leads to
impeachment of President Bill Clinton
Worldwide Spanish flu epidemic kills 20 million
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Major 20th Century events by year 2 Quiz

  1. by rockgolf
  • Created Jan 28, 2010 in History
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