WW1
What is the Great War?
The name of the leader of the United Kingdom who served for the majority of the war
Who is Winston Churchill?
This eventually unsuccessful organization was formed after the end of the first world war as an attempt to unite nations around the globe and prevent potential conflicts between them
What is the League of Nations?
This major European event marked the end of Soviet control of Germany
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This famous British ocean liner sank on the night of April 14th 1912 after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic ocean
What is the Titanic?
The assasination of this person caused Austria Hungary to declare war on Serbia, Starting the War
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The name of the alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan during the war
What is the Axis?
This treaty that was imposed by the victorious powers of the first world war on Germany is often noted for being overly harsh
This ideology was feared by many Americans during the duration of the Cold War
What is Communism?
These 2 brothers managed to create the first ever machine capable of flight in 1903
Who are the Wright Brothers?
This American ocean liner was struck by a German U-Boat, sinking in the Atlanic ocean and souring American attitudes towards Germany
What is the Lusitania?
An event that forced the United States to break its neutrality and join the war on the side of the Allies
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbour?
The leader of the Spanish nationalists during the Spanish Civil War
Who is Francisco Franco?
This unpopular proxy war was fought by the US in South East Asia for 20 years and cost them over 58,000 men
What is the Vietnam War?
This British monarch died only 1 year after the turn of the century (1800s changing over to the 1900s)
Who was Queen Victoria?
A very deadly offensive that the Russian Empire organized in an attempt to push back the Central Powers in 1916
What is the Brusilov Offensive?
The name that Germany gave to it's plan to invade the USSR
What is Operation Barbarossa?
The non-agression pact signed between the USSR and Germany in 1939 that split up eastern Europe into planned spheres of German and Soviet influence
What is the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?
This Premier of the USSR infamously died in a pool of his own feces and urine due to his guards being too scared of him to check in on him when they heard him collapse in his office
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This policy was followed by the British which called for their navy to be at least as large as the combined navies the next next 2 greatest powers
What was the 2 Power Standard?
What is a Stahlhelm?
This Soviet tank was so effective during the war that Hitler ordered for Germany to copy the design to use for their own tanks
What is a T-34?
A treaty signed between the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy and the United States that had the aim of limiting the size of the respective nations navies
What is the London Naval Treaty?
This was the first state to declare its independance from the Soviet Union in 1990
What is Lithuania?
After the end of the Second Balkan war and the signing of the Treaty of London, the Kingdom of Bulgaria lost this piece of land to the Kingdom of Romania
What is Southern Dobruja?