Battles
What was the most important naval battle of World War I?
Battle of Jutland
Who was the commander of the Allied troops in the Pacific during WWII?
MacArthur
Germany and their allies fought for the_____ Powers during World War I.
Central
Many Europeans in the early 20th Century believed in _____ nationalism which is the right to overthrow their government.
Revolutionary
Which chancellor made Germany a powerful nation in the late 1800’s?
Otto von Bismarck
England and their allies formed the Triple ? before World War I.
Entente
What British ship was sunk by a German naval vessel in 1916?
Lusitania
Who was the first leader of the united country of Russia?
Ivan III
“Czar Liberator”
Alexander II
Germany’s last great offensive attack in WWII
Battle of the Bulge
Which American general led the invasion of France at Normandy?
Eisenhower
What American holiday is celebrated on Armistice Day?
Veterans Day
What type of economy does Communism oppose?
Capitalism
Which American President made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?
Truman
Whose assassination began World War I?
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto were both written by ______.
Karl Marx
Who was the first Communist dictator of Russia?
Lenin
Overthrew her husband Peter III in 1762.
Catherine the Great
The naval battle in which the opposing ships never sighted each other
Battle of Coral Sea
The Axis Powers during World War II were Germany, Italy and _____.
What nation surprisingly did not join the League of Nations?
United States
The first country to have a successful Communist revolution was _____.
Russia
First Russian leader to be called Czar
Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV)
What organization attempted to help keep world peace after WWI?
League of Nations
The genocide committed against the Jewish people by the Germans during World War II was called the _____.
Holocaust
With what Communist country did the Allies have to cooperate with during WWII in order to defeat Germany?
Russia
The Kaiser of Germany during World War I was _____.
Wilhelm II
Battle/attack that brought America into WWII
Pearl Harbor
The first country that Germany invaded leading up to WWII was _____.
Austria
Which European nation had a civil war in 1936?
Spain
Famously used his promise of a "New Deal" to help win the United States presidential election in 1932.
FDR - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Built St. Petersburg
Peter the Great
What was Germany’s most important naval weapon during World War I?
U-boat or Submarine
Most of the fighting in World War I was located in the ______ which were a series of large, underground ditches.
trenches
Russia’s Communist “empire” was known as the _____.
Soviet Union
The President of the United States during World War I was _____.
Woodrow Wilson
Battle that began the push to retake France by the Allies
D-Day
The strategy used by the United States to retake the pacific islands from Japan was called "island _____".
hopping
The Allies attacked _____ from North Africa signaling the end of Mussolini's reign.
Italy
What were Japanese suicide planes loaded with explosives called?
kamikazes
Created the secret police
Nicholas I
The post-WWI peace conference was mostly led by the “Big ______.“
Four
America’s time of economic struggle in the 1930’s was the Great _____.
Depression
The Russinan leader that signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler's Germany was _____.
Stalin
Who created Communism in the 1800’s?
Karl Marx