Site of conflict in WWI, British called it "Wipers."
What is Ypres.
100
How the U.S. supplied Berlin after the USSR attempted to cut if off via blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift.
100
Turn of the century suffrage activist in U.S.
Who is Anna Howard Shaw.
100
Largest battleship ever built, symbol of Japan's might and later demise.
What is the Yamato.
200
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
200
Capital of South Vietnam, captured by the ARVN shortly after U.S. left Vietnam, later renamed Ho Chi Minh City.
What is Saigon.
200
War that exposed Russian weakness, symbol of Asian might.
What is the Russo-Japanese War.
200
South Vietnamese rebels that aided the ARVN.
Who are the Viet Cong.
200
One of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms (the other is perestroika).
What is glasnost.
300
"I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson.
300
Country re-formed after WWI, later invaded by Germany and USSR.
What is Poland.
300
CIA helped depose Jacobo Arbenz in this event.
What is the 1954 Guatemalan coup.
300
Chief architect of the post-WWII European Recovery Program.
Who is George Marshall.
300
Soviet policy of crushing dissent behind the Iron Curtain with military might (1964 - 1982).
What is the Brezhnev Doctrine.
400
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
400
The school were the Brown v. Board decision was tested in Arkansas, Nat'l Guard eventually called up.
What is Little Rock Central High School.
400
Launch of first artificial earth satellite, gave USSR the lead in Space Race, mentioned in Ian Frazier's essay On the Prison Highway.
What is the launch of Sputnik.
400
Secretary of Defense during much of the Vietnam War.
Who is Robert McNamara.
400
American bomber that dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima.
What is the Enola Gay.
500
"A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."
Who is Woodrow Wilson.
500
One of the beaches involved in the 1944 D-day invasions - the name is also the Roman name for the wife of Jupiter.
What is Juno.
500
Along with reoccupation of the Rhineland and re-militarization, a sign that Germany and Austria were hungry to revenge their defeat in WWI.
What is anschluss.
500
First democratically elected head of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, later assassinated.