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Which "unsinkable" ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage in 1912? | — |
Which global war broke out in 1914? | — |
Which 1929 financial event ushered in the Great Depression? | — |
Which 1989 event came to symbolize the end of the Cold War in Europe? | — |
Which 1939–45 conflict was the deadliest war in human history? | — |
Which 1903 milestone marked the first sustained, powered, controlled flight? | — |
Which 1969 event saw humans first set foot on another world? | — |
Which 1917 upheaval brought the communists to power in Russia? | — |
Which 1918–19 pandemic killed tens of millions across the globe? | — |
Which 1963 event stunned the United States with a president's murder in Dallas? | — |
Which 1986 nuclear-reactor disaster spread radiation across Soviet Ukraine and beyond? | — |
Which two Japanese cities were destroyed by atomic bombs in 1945? | — |
Which 1991 event marked the breakup of a communist superpower? | — |
Which 1947 event divided British India into two independent nations? | — |
Which 1957 Soviet launch opened the Space Age? | — |
Which 1936–39 war became a proving ground for the fascist powers before World War II? | — |
Which 1956 crisis saw Britain, France, and Israel invade Egypt over a vital waterway? | — |
Which 1973 event triggered a worldwide energy shock as oil-producing states cut supply? | — |
Which 1994 event saw the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela? | — |
Which 1984 industrial disaster, a toxic gas leak in India, killed thousands? | — |
Which 1936 Olympic Games were exploited by the Nazi regime as propaganda? | — |
Which 1948 event established a Jewish state in the Middle East? | — |
Which tragic 1912 expedition reached the South Pole only to perish on the return journey? | — |
Which 1989 crackdown crushed pro-democracy protests in the heart of Beijing? | — |
Which 1994 genocide in central Africa killed an estimated 800,000 people in about 100 days? | — |
Which 1962 confrontation brought the superpowers to the brink of nuclear war over missiles in the Caribbean? | — |
Which 1929–39 worldwide economic collapse threw millions out of work? | — |
Which 1972 scandal eventually forced a U.S. president to resign? | — |
Which 1979 revolution transformed Iran into an Islamic republic? | — |
Which 1937 disaster destroyed a German airship over New Jersey, ending the airship era? | — |
Who discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin in 1928? | — |
What was the codename for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944? | — |
The Cold War was primarily a geopolitical standoff between the United States and which other superpower? | — |
Which American civil rights leader delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963? | — |
The U.S. officially entered World War II after Japan attacked which naval base in 1941? | — |
Which 1919 treaty formally ended World War I and imposed heavy reparations on Germany? | — |
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, granted what right to women? | — |
What is the term for the systematic, state-sponsored genocide of six million European Jews by the Nazi regime? | — |
The era of Prohibition in the United States (1920-1933) banned the production and sale of what? | — |
Which international organization was founded in 1945, after WWII, to promote peace and cooperation? | — |
Which leader used nonviolent civil disobedience to lead India to independence from British rule? | — |
What was the name of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's series of programs to combat the Great Depression? | — |
Albert Einstein's famous equation E = mc² was part of his theory of what? | — |
The assassination of which Austro-Hungarian archduke in Sarajevo in 1914 triggered the start of World War I? | — |
Which 1917 British statement supported the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine? | — |
In 1949, Mao Zedong's Communist Party won a civil war and established which nation? | — |
What military alliance was formed in 1949 by Western nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union? | — |
In 1955, Jonas Salk developed the first successful vaccine against which debilitating disease? | — |
The failed 1961 CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles is known as what? | — |
In which 1967 war did Israel achieve a decisive victory over a coalition of Arab states in a very short time? | — |
What 1969 music festival in upstate New York became a defining event of the counterculture movement? | — |
In 1982, the United Kingdom fought a war with which South American country over the Falkland Islands? | — |
What was the codename for the U.S.-led military operation to liberate Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War? | — |
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published their groundbreaking model for the structure of what molecule? | — |
Following World War II, prominent Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes in which German city? | — |
What was the name for the brutal campaign of political repression orchestrated by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938? | — |
The Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 to crush what period of political liberalization? | — |
The "Phoney War" was an eight-month period of inaction on the Western Front at the start of WWII, following the invasion of which country? | — |
Which 1904-05 conflict, a decisive victory for an Asian power over a European one, shifted the global balance of power? | — |
What was the name of the Polish trade union, led by Lech Wałęsa, that successfully challenged communist rule in the 1980s? | — |
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