Technology
What weapon revolutionized warfare by allowing one man to match the firepower of a company of riflemen?
The Machine Gun
What are the four causes of WWI?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism (MAIN)
What Treaty was signed at the end of WWI?
The Treaty of Versailles
This "Day of Infamy" say Japan attack the United States on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, leading the US to enter the war.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This man was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Great Britain) during WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This new technology revolutionized reconnaissance in WWI by taking images of enemy trenches, but it would become central to tactics like Blitzkrieg and the air raids of WWII.
What is the biplane/airplane?
Which three countries made up the Central Powers?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
In 1917, Russia experienced a major shift in leadership. What was this transition?
The Russian Revolution: In 1917, Russia's last Czar (Nicholas II) abdicated and the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin took over.
This terrifying new piece of WWI technology was originally designed to cross no-man's-land, with many resembling huge metal boxes of machine guns. These would become devastating on the battlefield of WWII.
What is the tank?
This group of nations was established by President Woodrow Wilson after World War I to prevent another war, but failed after the US Senate refused to allow the US to join.
What is the League of Nations?
This totalitarian leader was the first to use the term fascism (facismso) after his political party (the Blackshirts) successfully overthrew the Kingdom of Italy
Benito Mussolini (Italy)
This massive new naval vessel of WWII revolutionized naval warfare by serving as a ship-based airfield for the planes it carried on board.
What is an aircraft carrier?
This German naval technology allowed them to ambush enemy supply vessels while hiding from the superior British navy. (The unrestricted use of these would lead the US to enter the war).
What is the U-Boat? (submarine)
This country would invade Korea, China, and other Asian countries in 1936 in an effort to create an "Asia for the Asiatics" (or the first Asian colonial empire)
What is Japan?
This Russian city is considered the turning point on the Eastern Front and saw the most horrific fighting of the war, with around 2 million soldiers and civilians killed.
What is Stalingrad?
This airborne technology would be launched at enemy trenches through artillery shells and was used to spread fear, maim, and kill enemy soldiers.
What is poison gas? (mustard/cholorine gas)
What ended United States neutrality in WWI? (two reasons - must name at least one)
1. The sinking of the Lusitania by German U-boats that had 138 American soldiers on board
2. Zimmerman note (note from Germany to Mexico offering support in future wards in exchange for money and troops)
This major economic disaster struck the US in 1929 and would further disrupt life around the world, especially in post-war Germany.
What is the Great Depression?
What two Japanese cities were destroyed by the Atomic Bombs? Whose ultimate decision was it?
1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 2. President Harry Truman
This was the Austrian prince assassinated in Sarajevo, lighting the spark that would lead to the outbreak of WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?