The 1950s

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1. Which conflict officially began on 25th June 1950? Algerian War Vietnam War Korean War Cold War

2. Which wartime hero won an election on 26th October 1951? Dwight D. Eisenhower Bernard Montgomery Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill

3. Where was Queen Elizabeth II on 6th February 1952 when her father died and she ascended to the British throne? Scotland Australia United States Kenya

4. Who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union after his death on 5th March 1953? Yuri Andropov Nikita Khrushchev Georgy Malenkov Leonid Brezhnev

5. Who ran the four minute mile on 6th May 1954? John Landy Roger Bannister Chris Brasher Norris McWhirter

6. Which of these countries did NOT sign the Warsaw Pact on 15th May 1955? Hungary East Germany Czechoslovakia Poland

7. Which of these iconic figures died on 30th September 1955? James Dean Eva Peron Marilyn Monroe Che Guevara

8. Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a bus boycott in which state? Mississippi Alabama Georgia Louisiana

9. On 22nd February 1956, Elvis Presley entered the music charts for the first time with what song? Hound Dog Blue Suede Shoes Heartbreak Hotel I Want You, I Need You, I Love You

10. What was the name of the first artificial satellite, which was launched by the Soviet Union on 4th October 1957, beginning the space age? Answer: (One Word)

11. On 24th October 1958, Angelo Roncalli became Pope. What name did he take? Pius John Benedict Paul

12. Arthur Miller’s play "The Crucible" was inspired on which event of the 1950s? Trial of the Rosenbergs Mau Mau Uprising Senator McCarthy’s anti-Communist “witch hunts” Montgommery Bus Boycott

13. In 1959, Cuba became the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere. True False

14. Dwight D. Eisenhower won two landslide elections in the 1950s. Whom did he defeat on both occasions? Thomas Dewey Adlai Stevenson Lyndon B. Johnson Harry S. Truman

15. In what year was the Suez Crisis? Answer: (Year - four digits)