Match Date with Event Flashcards

Question

1950 - 1953

Answer 1

Korean War

Answer 2

JFK assassinated

Answer 3

Vietnam War

Answer 4

Apollo 11 moon landing - Neil Armstrong becomes first person to walk on the moon

Answer 5

Roe V Wade legalized abortion worldwide

Answer 6

Fall of the Berlin Wall - Symbolizes end of the Cold War

Answer 7

Gulf War - US led coalition forces eject Iraqi forces from Kuwait

Answer 8

September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon

Answer 9

U.S invades Iraq, leading to the Iraq War

Answer 10

Barack Obama elected as first black president Housing market collapse

Answer 11

U.S Navy Seals kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan

Answer 12

Covid Pandemic Begins

Answer 13

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 14

Boston Massacre - British soldiers kill 5 colonists - 5 years before the start of the Revolutionary War

Answer 15

French and Indian War

Answer 16

Battle of the Alamo

Answer 17

California Gold Rush

Answer 18

Battle of Little Big Horn - General Custer and U.S forces defeated by Native American tribes Telephone invented

Answer 19

Wounded Knee Massacre - US army kills over 200 Native Americans in South Dakota

Answer 20

D-Day - Ally invasion of Normandy

Answer 21

19th ammendment gives women the right to vote

Answer 22

Rosa parks refuses to give her seat up sparking the Civil Rights Movement

Answer 23

Martin Luther King delivers his “I Have a Dream Speach”

Answer 24

MLK assassinated

Answer 25

Iran Hostage Crissis - American Embassy workers held hostage for 444 days

Answer 26

Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit

Answer 27

Edward Snowden leaks classified NSA survellience information

Answer 28

US withdrawals from Iraq

Answer 29

Wright Brothers first powered flight

Answer 30

Battle of Waterloo - The end of Napolean Bonaparte

Answer 31

Trail of Tears

Answer 32

Daniel Boone and Boonesborough

Answer 33

Leif Erickson creates settlement in Canada he called Vinland

Answer 34

Renaissance Era

Answer 35

Sinking of the Titanic

Answer 36

Prohibition Era

Answer 37

Light bulb invented

Answer 38

US enters WW1

Answer 39

TV Invented

Answer 40

Manhattan Project

Answer 41

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Answer 42

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 43

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Answer 44

Iran Contra Affair

Answer 45

Waco Seige

Answer 46

Operation Red Wing (Lone Survivor)

Answer 47

Hunter gatherers enter America through the Bering Land Bridge

Answer 48

Ford assembly line introduced

Answer 49

Formation of earth

Answer 50

First evidence of life - Single celled organisms

Answer 51

Great Oxidation Event

Answer 52

Dinosaurs appeared

Answer 53

All non-birdlike dinosaurs killed in the Cretaceous Period Mass Extinction event

Answer 54

homo-Sapien's appear on earth

Answer 55

Around the time Jesus was born (6BCE)

Answer 56

Around the time Jesus died (30CE)

Answer 57

The Crusades - First Crusade (1069-1099) -Second Crusade (1147 - 1149) - Third Crusade (1189 - 1192) - Fourth Crusade (1202-1024) -Final Crusade (13th Century)

Answer 58

The fall of Constantinople - 41 years before Columbus

Answer 59

Bubonic Plague (Black Death) - Wiped out 50% of Europe's population

Answer 60

Signing of the Magna Carta

Answer 61

Spanish conquests of the Aztecs and Incas

Answer 62

Napoleonic Wars

Answer 63

Juan Ponce De Leon explores and names Florida

Answer 64

First European settlement founded (St. Augustine, FLorida)

Answer 65

English explorer John Cabot explores Canada

Answer 66

Creation of the Egyptian Pyramids

Answer 67

The Mongols, under Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous empire in the world