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100

This second president of the US infamously passed the Alien and Sedition Acts

Who is John Adams?

100

This 1919 treaty that formally ended World War 1 punished Germany maybe a bit too much. 

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

100

This fascist humpty-dumpty impersonator, nicknamed "Il Duce", led Italy for most of World War 2

Who is Benito Mussolini?

100
This very creatively named period of struggle saw Galba, Otto, Vitellius, and Vespasian become emperor all in the same year

What is the Year of the Four Emperors?

100

The Cold War was ended after this alcoholic became the first democratic president of Russia

Who is Boris Yeltsin?

200

The US tried and failed miserably to invade this country during the War of 1812 at the Battles of Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane

What is Canada?

200

The assassination of this guy started World War 1

Who is Franz Ferdinand?

200

This home of the island of Dejima was the second and last major city in history to be attacked by an atomic bomb

What is Nagasaki?

200

Julius Caesar became famous for waging a war in and writing a very boring book about which region, now modern day France?

What is Gaul?

200

This notorious secretary of state under Richard Nixon was responsible for both opening up relationships with China and bombing Cambodia into the shadow realm

Who is Henry Kissinger?

400

This two word phrase describes the common 19th century belief that America was destined to expand.

What is Manifest Destiny?

400

The British intercepted this alleged telegram from Germany that told Mexico to invade the US

What is the Zimmermann Telegram?

400

This feared German air force was responsible for the Blitzkrieg bombing campaign over England. 

What is the Luftwaffe?

400

Octavian's navy, led by Marcus Agrippa, won this naval battle over the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra

What is the Battle of Actium? 

400

(Daily Double!) In 1973, the US backed a coup that overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende and replaced him with this brutal military dictator

Who is Augusto Pinochet?

800

This compromise admitted California as a free state and instituted the Fugitive Slave Act

What is the Compromise of 1850

800

This brutal 1916 battle at a French fortress town was where Robert Nivelle famously ordered "they shall not pass"

What is the Battle of Verdun?

800

This largest naval battle in history(maybe) was the first battle where kamikaze attacks were used and completely ran Japan out of fuel

What is the Battle of Leyte Gulf?

800

This last emperor of the Western Roman Empire was irrelevant because he was literally a child. 

Who is Romulus Augustulus?

800

This "high altitude weather enthusiast" was infamously shot down in a U2 spy plane over Soviet territory in 1961

Who is Francis Gary Powers?

1599

This current secretary of defense was lambasted for his role in the leak of a Signal group chat to Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg. 

Who is Pete Hegseth?

1599

The Italians sucked for most of World War 1 because this bumbling bozo of a general, who famously got wrecked at the Battle of Caporetto, was in charge

Who is Luigi Cadorna?

1599

This complete narcissist allegedly referred to himself in third person in a meeting with President Roosevelt and claimed "I shall return" when he retreated from the Philippines

Who is Douglas MacArthur?

1599

This possibly transgender lunatic who made an entire sun cult about himself is considered the worst emperor in Roman history

Who is Elagabalus

1599

This possibly fascist paramilitary group was led by Yevgeny Prigozhin before he mysteriously died in a helicopter crash. 

What is the Wagner Group? 

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