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  1. Complete the sentence about Theodore Roosevelt with the correct year: Because the New York state party leadership disliked his ambitious state agenda, they convinced McKinley to choose him as his runn…
  2. Complete the sentence about Woodrow Wilson with the correct year: Wilson is considered one of the founding fathers of the field of public administration due to his ______ article "The Study of Adminis…
  3. Complete the sentence about Woodrow Wilson with the correct year: At the outbreak of World War I in ______, the U.S. declared neutrality as Wilson tried to negotiate peace between the Allied and Centr…
  4. Complete the sentence about Spanish–American War with the correct year: In ______, Cuban nationalists began a revolt against Spanish rule, which was brutally suppressed by the colonial authorities.
  5. Complete the sentence about Spanish–American War with the correct year: The war formally ended with the ______ Treaty of Paris, signed on December 10 with terms favorable to the U.S.
  6. Complete the sentence about Prohibition in the United States with the correct year: Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment on De…
  7. Complete the sentence about Roaring Twenties with the correct year: Wall Street invested heavily in Germany under the ______ Dawes Plan, named after banker and later 30th vice president Charles G.
  8. Complete the sentence about Roaring Twenties with the correct year: The Wall Street crash of ______ ended the era, as the Great Depression brought years of hardship worldwide.
  9. Complete the sentence about Wall Street crash of 1929 with the correct year: After Black Thursday, leading bankers joined forces to purchase stock at prices above market value, a strategy used during…
  10. Complete the sentence about Wall Street crash of 1929 with the correct year: Further action failed to halt the fall, which continued until July 8, ______; by then, the stock market had lost some 90% o…
  11. Complete the sentence about Great Depression with the correct year: In the ______ presidential election, Hoover was defeated by Franklin D.
  12. Complete the sentence about Great Depression with the correct year: Roosevelt, who from ______ pursued a set of expansive New Deal programs in order to provide relief and create jobs.
  13. Complete the sentence about Franklin D. Roosevelt with the correct year: Cox on the Democratic ticket in the ______ presidential election, which Cox lost to Republican nominee Warren G.
  14. Complete the sentence about Franklin D. Roosevelt with the correct year: Roosevelt defeated President Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory in the ______ presidential election.
  15. Complete the sentence about Attack on Pearl Harbor with the correct year: The Empire of Japan launched a surprise military attack on the US Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Haw…
  16. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Roosevelt to famously label December 7, ______, "a date which will live in infamy".
  17. Complete the sentence about Manhattan Project with the correct year: The first nuclear device ever detonated was an implosion-type bomb during the Trinity test, conducted at White Sands Proving Ground…
  18. Complete the sentence about Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the correct year: On 6 and 9 August ______, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshim…
  19. Complete the sentence about Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the correct year: The war in Europe concluded when Germany surrendered on 8 May ______, and the Allies turned their full atte…
  20. Complete the sentence about Harry S. Truman with the correct year: As the 34th vice president in ______, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D.
  21. Complete the sentence about Harry S. Truman with the correct year: Returning home, he opened a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri, and was elected as a judge of Jackson County in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Marshall Plan with the correct year: In ______, two years after the end of the war, industrialist Lewis H.
  23. Complete the sentence about Marshall Plan with the correct year: Marshall spoke of an urgent need to help the European recovery in his address at Harvard University in June ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Cold War with the correct year: In ______, the US initiated diplomatic contacts with China and the US and USSR signed a series of treaties limiting their nuclear arsenals d…
  25. Complete the sentence about Korean War with the correct year: On 25 June ______, North Korea launched an invasion of South Korea.
  26. Complete the sentence about Korean War with the correct year: Communist forces captured Seoul again in January ______ before losing it to a UN counter-offensive two months later.
  27. Complete the sentence about Vietnam War with the correct year: The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian civil wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Vietnam War with the correct year: The civil and colonial conflicts in Vietnam became internationalized in ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Vietnam War with the correct year: In ______, North Vietnam invaded Laos, establishing the Ho Chi Minh trail to supply the VC insurgency.
  30. Complete the sentence about Vietnam War with the correct year: In ______, Diem was killed in a US-backed ARVN military coup, which added to South Vietnam's growing instability.
  31. Complete the sentence about Vietnam War with the correct year: Following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in ______, the US Congress passed a resolution that gave President Lyndon B.
  32. Complete the sentence about Vietnam War with the correct year: In ______, the PAVN and Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive, which was a tactical defeat but contributed to growing American opposition…
  33. Complete the sentence about Vietnam War with the correct year: Johnson's successor, Richard Nixon, began "Vietnamization" from ______, which saw the conflict fought by an expanded ARVN while US forces…
  34. Complete the sentence about Dwight D. Eisenhower with the correct year: In ______, Eisenhower entered the presidential race as a Republican, in part to block the presidential prospects of Senator Robe…
  35. Complete the sentence about Dwight D. Eisenhower with the correct year: Eisenhower won that year's election and the ______ election in landslides, both times defeating Adlai Stevenson II.
  36. Complete the sentence about Dwight D. Eisenhower with the correct year: In ______, Eisenhower considered using nuclear weapons to end the Korean War and may have threatened China with nuclear attack i…
  37. Complete the sentence about Dwight D. Eisenhower with the correct year: During the Suez Crisis of ______, he condemned the Israeli, British, and French invasion of Egypt, and he forced them to withdra…
  38. Complete the sentence about John F. Kennedy with the correct year: Born into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy graduated from Harvard University in ______, joining the…
  39. Complete the sentence about John F. Kennedy with the correct year: In ______, he authorized attempts to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation…
  40. Complete the sentence about John F. Kennedy with the correct year: In October ______, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba.
  41. Complete the sentence about Cuban Missile Crisis with the correct year: In ______, the US government deployed Thor nuclear missiles in England, an initiative known as Project Emily.
  42. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ the US put Jupiter nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey.
  43. Complete the sentence about Cuban Missile Crisis with the correct year: While the Soviets dismantled their missiles, some Soviet bombers remained in Cuba, and the United States kept the naval quaranti…
  44. Complete the sentence about Assassination of John F. Kennedy with the correct year: Ruby was convicted of Oswald's murder, though the decision was overturned on appeal, and Ruby died in prison in ____…
  45. Complete the sentence about Assassination of John F. Kennedy with the correct year: In ______, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison brought the only trial for Kennedy's murder against businessma…
  46. Complete the sentence about Lyndon B. Johnson with the correct year: In ______, he was controversially declared the winner in the Democratic primary for the U.S.
  47. Complete the sentence about Lyndon B. Johnson with the correct year: Johnson assumed the presidency in ______, after Kennedy was assassinated.
  48. Complete the sentence about Lyndon B. Johnson with the correct year: As part of these efforts, Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments of ______, which resulted in the creation of Medicare and M…
  49. Complete the sentence about Great Society with the correct year: Johnson first used the phrase on May 7, ______ in a speech delivered at Ohio University, with presidential assistant Richard N.
  50. Complete the sentence about Civil rights movement with the correct year: Legal racial discrimination was upheld by the Supreme Court in its ______ decision in Plessy v.
  51. Complete the sentence about Civil rights movement with the correct year: In ______, the Supreme Court struck down state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools in Brown v.
  52. Complete the sentence about Martin Luther King Jr. with the correct year: Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of COINTELPRO from ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Martin Luther King Jr. with the correct year: In ______, the FBI mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.
  54. Complete the sentence about Martin Luther King Jr. with the correct year: King won the ______ Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.
  55. Complete the sentence about Martin Luther King Jr. with the correct year: In ______, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was a…
  56. Complete the sentence about Rosa Parks with the correct year: When Parks was arrested in ______, local leaders were searching for a person who would be a good legal test case against segregation.
  57. Complete the sentence about Rosa Parks with the correct year: In ______, she co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development with Elaine Eason Steele.
  58. Complete the sentence about Rosa Parks with the correct year: Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, ______, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
  59. Complete the sentence about Brown v. Board of Education with the correct year: The decision partially overruled the Court's ______ decision Plessy v.
  60. Complete the sentence about Brown v. Board of Education with the correct year: Brown was influenced by UNESCO's ______ Statement, signed by a wide variety of internationally renowned scholars, titled…
  61. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Kennedy in June ______, but it was opposed by filibuster in the Senate.
  62. Complete the sentence about Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the correct year: After Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, ______, President Lyndon B.
  63. Complete the sentence about Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the correct year: After the Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in ______ in Brown v.
  64. Complete the sentence about Voting Rights Act of 1965 with the correct year: The Voting Rights Act of ______ is a landmark U.S. federal statute that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
  65. Complete the sentence about Voting Rights Act of 1965 with the correct year: Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Voting Rights Act of 1965 with the correct year: Prior to the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of ______, there were several efforts to stop the enfranchisement of Black…
  67. Complete the sentence about Malcolm X with the correct year: Throughout ______, his conflict with the Nation of Islam intensified and he was repeatedly sent death threats.
  68. Complete the sentence about Malcolm X with the correct year: Malcolm X was born May 19, ______, at University Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska.
  69. Complete the sentence about Richard Nixon with the correct year: After serving in the Naval Reserve during World War II, he was elected to the House of Representatives in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Richard Nixon with the correct year: After his loss in the ______ race for governor of California, Nixon announced his retirement from politics.
  71. Complete the sentence about Watergate scandal with the correct year: Nixon's efforts to conceal his administration's involvement led to an impeachment process and ultimately to his resignation in Augu…
  72. Complete the sentence about Watergate scandal with the correct year: In April ______, Cox's replacement Leon Jaworski reissued the subpoena, but Nixon provided only redacted transcripts.
  73. Complete the sentence about Watergate scandal with the correct year: Facing impeachment, on August 9, ______, Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign.
  74. Complete the sentence about Watergate scandal with the correct year: Richard Nixon was elected the 37th president of the United States in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Gerald Ford with the correct year: After the resignation of President Nixon in August ______, Ford immediately assumed the presidency.
  76. Complete the sentence about Jimmy Carter with the correct year: Naval Academy in ______ and joined the submarine service before returning to his family's peanut farm.
  77. Complete the sentence about Jimmy Carter with the correct year: Carter sought reelection in ______, defeating a primary challenge by Senator Ted Kennedy, but lost the election to Republican nominee Ro…
  78. Complete the sentence about Jimmy Carter with the correct year: After Carter's presidential term ended, he established the Carter Center to promote human rights, earning him the ______ Nobel Peace Pri…
  79. Complete the sentence about Jimmy Carter with the correct year: James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, ______, in Plains, Georgia, at the Wise Sanitarium, where his mother worked as a registered…
  80. Complete the sentence about Ronald Reagan with the correct year: Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan graduated from Eureka College in ______ and was hired the next year as a sports broadcaster in Iowa.
  81. Complete the sentence about Democratic-Republican Party with the correct year: After the War of ______, Madison and many other party leaders came to accept the need for a national bank and federally f…
  82. Complete the sentence about United States Cabinet with the correct year: Under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of ______, an administration may appoint acting heads of department from employees of th…
  83. Complete the sentence about United States Cabinet with the correct year: The salary level was set by the Government Salary Reform Act of ______, which provides an automatic cost of living adjustment f…
  84. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The first documented use of the title was in ______ in England.
  85. Complete the sentence about Speaker of the House with the correct year: The title was first recorded in ______ to describe the role of Thomas de Hungerford in the Parliament of England.
  86. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The formation of this position was established on 1 August ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Chief Justice of the United States with the correct year: The first person whose Supreme Court commission contained the modified title was Melville Fuller in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Federal government of the United States with the correct year: The powers of these three branches are defined and vested by the Constitution of the United States, which has…
  89. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Continental Army resisted the British during the American Revolutionary War, which began in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Federal government of the United States with the correct year: In September ______, the Thirteen Colonies ultimately prevailed over the British in the Revolutionary War, es…
  91. Complete the sentence about Federalism in the United States with the correct year: On May 15, ______, fifty-five delegates met at what would be known as the Constitutional Convention in the Philadelph…
  92. Complete the sentence about Federalism in the United States with the correct year: The outgoing Congress of the Confederation scheduled elections for the new government, and set March 4, ______ as the…
  93. Complete the sentence about Federalism in the United States with the correct year: In ______, the new Congress of the United States submitted twelve articles of amendment to the states.
  94. Complete the sentence about Federalism in the United States with the correct year: Ten of these articles, written by congressional committees, achieved passage on December 15, ______, and became the U…
  95. Complete the sentence about Separation of powers with the correct year: Under this influence, it was implemented in ______ in the Constitution of the United States separation of powers.
  96. Complete the sentence about Impeachment in the United States with the correct year: In ______, the House of Representatives impeached Senator William Blount of Tennessee.
  97. Complete the sentence about Filibuster in the United States Senate with the correct year: Beginning in ______, the House of Representatives set a series of precedents to make the previous question a w…
  98. Complete the sentence about Gerrymandering with the correct year: The word gerrymander was reprinted numerous times in Federalist newspapers in Massachusetts, New England, and nationwide for the rest…
  99. Complete the sentence about Primary election with the correct year: An example of this can be seen in the ______ Vermont senatorial primary with the nomination of Fred Tuttle as the Republican candida…
  100. Complete the sentence about Primary election with the correct year: The first primary elections came in the Democratic Party in the South in the 1890s starting in Louisiana in ______.

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