World War 2
This British Prime Minister is famous for his leadership during World War II and his speeches, including the famous phrase, "We shall fight on the beaches."
Who is Winston Churchill?
This leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence became the leader of the anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War.
Who is Eamon De Valera?
This policy, introduced by Stalin in the late 1920s, aimed to consolidate individual farms into large state-controlled farms.
What is Collectivisation?
Buying your way out of purgatory and into heaven
What was the sale of indulgences?
Potato Blight
What was the cause of the famine
This surprise military attack by Japan on a U.S. naval base on December 7, 1941, led to America's entry into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbour?
The Irish Civil War primarily resulted from a disagreement over this 1921 agreement, which established the Irish Free State as a dominion within the British Commonwealth.
What is the Anglo-Irish Treaty?
Stalin rose to power after the death of this revolutionary leader in 1924, whose ideas and leadership shaped the Soviet Union's early years.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Improvements in education, certain countries became very wealthy, split in the church.
What were the results of the Reformation?
Decline in the Irish language
What was a result of the plantations
This date, June 6, 1944, when Allied forces launched the largest overwater invasion in history on the beaches of Normandy.
What is D-Day?
This 1922 event marked the formal beginning of the Irish Civil War, with anti-Treaty forces attacking the Irish Free State army. The building they sieged was...
What is The Four Courts?
gave more opportunities for education, employment, and social welfare, but also expected them to take on traditional domestic roles.
What did Stalin do for women?
The leader of the first continental army during the American Revolution
Who is George Washington?
Giving up your land, swearing loyalty to the English crown, and then getting it back with an English title like earl or duke
What was surrender and regrant
What allowed Hitler to take power?
What is England?
conducted in the late 1930s, were used by Stalin to eliminate political opposition, with many prominent Communist Party members being executed or imprisoned.
What were Stalin's Show Trials
ambush/ hit and run tactics that suited smaller armies
What was Guerilla Warfare
The GAA, The Gaelic League, Irish Literary revival
What were cultural nationalist movements
This event involving two Japanese cities is often credited as the end of the war. (What is the event and the two cities)
What is the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This leader of the pro-Treaty forces became the first head of government in the Irish Free State after the civil war, serving as its president.
Who is W.T Cosgrave?
This Soviet newspaper, under Stalin's control, was one of the most influential propaganda tools in promoting government policies and ideology.
What is the pravda?
Refusing to take your seat in parliament to protest
What was Parliamentary Abstentionism
James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald and the Earl of Desmond
Who were the leaders of the Desmond Rebellions