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- 1.Which of these years/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1954: Lost Inca City Machu Picchu Found
- B.
1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis
- C.
1973: Roe V. Wade Rules On Abortion Rights
- D.
1988: Iran-Iraq War Ends After 8 Yearsushdie Publishes 'The Satanic Verses'
- 2.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1991: Dow Jones Tops 3000 For The First Time
- B.
1969: First Woodstock Music Festival
- C.
1984: New Mexico & Arizona Become States
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1964: Cassius Clay Defeats Sonny Liston
- 3.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1979: Egypt And Israel Sign Peace Treaty
- B.
1776: Declaration Of Independence Is Signed
- C.
1987: Woodrow Wilson Wins Presidency
- D.
1985: Mikhail Gorbachev Leads USSR
- 4.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1991: Warsaw Pact Is Officially Dissolved
- B.
1971: Congress Sets Federal 8-Hr Workday
- C.
1812: James Madison Is Elected President
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1976: U.S. Celebrates Bicentennial
- 5.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1801: Thomas Jefferson Becomes President Of US
- B.
1784: Benjamin Franklin Invents Bifocals
- C.
1845: F.F. Woolworth Company Is Incorporated
- D.
1837: The Morse Code Of Dots And Dashes Created
- 6.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1967: World's First Heart Transplant Is Performed
- B.
1961: The Titanic Sinks
- C.
1969: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Salt) Begin
- D.
1991: Dow Jones Tops 3000 For The First Time
- 7.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1851: Herman Melville's Moby Dick Is Completed
- B.
1814: Treaty Of Ghent Ends The War Of 1812
- C.
1849: California Gold Rush Starts
- D.
1857: Jim Thorpe Wins Olympic Medals
- 8.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1967: Six-Day Arab-Israeli War
- B.
1823: President Monroe Presents Monroe Doctrine
- C.
1832: Mexican President Madero Killed
- D.
1963: John F. Kennedy Is Assassinated In Dallas
- 9.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1979: Egypt And Israel Sign Peace Treaty
- B.
1860: Abraham Lincoln Is Elected President
- C.
1971: 16th Amendment Permits Income Tax
- D.
1974: Richard Nixon Resigns As U.S. President
- 10.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1963: "I Have A Dream" Speech Given In Washington
- B.
1826: Thomas Jefferson And John Adams Both Die
- C.
1959: Coco Chanel Opens French Boutique
- D.
1990: Operation Desert Shield Begins
- 11.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1973: Camel Cigarettes Introduced
- B.
1965: Martin Luther King, Jr. Marches In Selma
- C.
1821: Sailors In New Orleans Invent Poker
- D.
1990: Nelson Mandela Is Released From Prison
- 12.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
2001: U.S. Spy Plane Collides With Chinese Plane
- B.
1801: U.S. Declares War On Germany
- C.
1789: Washington Sworn In As First U.S. President
- D.
1492: Christoph Columbus Lands In The West
- 13.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1983: Reagan Sends American Troops To Grenada
- B.
1968: Tet Offensive Started In Veitnam
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1775: American War Of Independence Begins
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1781: Russia Signs Brest-Litovsk Treaty
- 14.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1972: Czar Nicholas II Executed In Russia
- B.
1998: Explicit Starr Report Is Released On Clinton
- C.
1970: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Created
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1845: Republic Of Texas Becomes The 28th State
- 15.Which of these year/events is not correctly matched?
- A.
1999: Russian President Boris Yeltsin Resigns
- B.
1979: Iranian Shah Flees Iran
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1810: Napoleon Marries Archduchess Of Austria
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1978: Influenza Epidemic Kills 20 Million
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