In what year did World War I begin?
D.1914
20th Century Events
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In what year did World War II end?
C.1945
In what year did the first humans land on the Moon?
A.1969
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?
D.1989
In what year did the Titanic sink?
D.1912
In what year did World War II begin (with Germany's invasion of Poland)?
A.1939
In what year did women gain the right to vote in the United States?
C.1920
In what year did the Soviet Union launch Sputnik, the first artificial satellite?
A.1957
In what year did the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression?
A.1929
In what year did India gain independence from British rule?
C.1947
In what year did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor?
D.1941
In what year did Nelson Mandela become President of South Africa?
D.1994
In what year did the Soviet Union dissolve?
A.1991
In what year did the first successful heart transplant take place?
D.1967
In what year did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?
C.1962
In what year did World War I end?
D.1918
In what year did the first commercial jet airline service begin (BOAC)?
D.1952
In what year did the Vietnam War end (fall of Saigon)?
C.1975
In what year did the first successful kidney transplant take place?
B.1954
In what year did the first Earth Day take place?
A.1970
In what year did the first commercial radio station (KDKA) begin broadcasting?
C.1920
In what year did the first artificial satellite (Sputnik 1) orbit Earth?
D.1957
In what year did the first human (Yuri Gagarin) orbit Earth?
C.1961
In what year did the Watergate break-in occur?
D.1972
In what year did the first test-tube baby (Louise Brown) be born?
C.1978