Historical Leaders
Significant Time Periods
Major Wars
Military Generals
Space Race :D
100
Who is the guy in the middle, talking to the microphones? Yes, you need to say his full name, thank you!
What is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
What was the NAME of the 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet nuclear missile deployment in Cuba?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
(If you got this wrong, you should probably just give up now...)
100
Who was victorious after the Korean War ended?
A]: The United States of AMERICA
B]: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics'
C]: The People's Republic of China
D]: No one won because the war never ended
What is no one won because the war never ended?
(No single power was victorious after the Korean War; it ended in a stalemate with a Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953, rather than a peace treaty.)
100
Lyman Louis Lemnitzer (29 August 1899 – 12 November 1988) was a United States Army general who served as the fourth chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962. He then served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1963 to 1969.
Which wars/battles did he participate in?
- World War II
- North African campaign
- Italian campaign
- Operation Husky
- Occupation of Japan
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
100
Who was the first person to walk on the moon and what nationality were they?
What is American Astronaut, Neil Armstrong?
200
You know him, you love him, who was the Cold War, United States' president during 1961-1964?
What is John F. Kennedy?
(I lied his term was actually from 1961-1963.)
200
After 1956, the Sino-Soviet alliance began to break down. Mao had defended Stalin when Khrushchev criticized him in 1956 and treated the new Soviet leader as a superficial upstart, accusing him of having lost his revolutionary edge.
Which nations were previously in the Sino-Soviet alliance? (This is easy!)
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' and the People's Republic of China?
200
After five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on...
A]: 1950, June 25
B]: 1952, October 11
C]: 1953, July 27
D]: 1949, January 14
What is 1950, June 25?
200
Who is NOT, not a non-French Commander during the Cold War (1946-1991)?!
A]: Charles de Gaulle
B]: Vincent Auriol
C]: André Beaufre
D]: Postumus
Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus (fl. 259–269) was a Roman commander of Batavian origin, who ruled as emperor of the splinter state of the Roman Empire known to modern historians as the Gallic Empire. (He is wrong)
What is Vincent Auriol?
200
Which nation was the first to send a satellite into space during 1957?
What is the Soviet Union?
300
Who was the First Secretary of the Communist Part, for the Soviet Union?
A]: Georgy Malenkov
B]: Joseph Stalin (He's dead)
C]: Nikita Khrushchev
D]: Leonid Brezhnev
THAT'S RIGHT... JOSEEPPPHHHH STALLIIINNNN!!
What is Nikita Khrushchev?
300
When did the Kuomintang, in the Chinese Civil War resume fighting against the Communist Party of China?
OBVIOUSLY! ...What is 1946?
300
During the Cold War, the Indochina wars (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đông Dương) were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1945 to 1991, by communist forces (mainly ones led by Vietnamese communists) against the opponents (mainly the Vietnamese nationalists, Trotskyists, the State of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, the French, American, Laotian royalist, Cambodian and Chinese communist forces). The term "Indochina" referred to former French Indochina, which included the current states of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
Question: Which was did the United States fight in?
A]: First Indochina War
B]: Second Indochina War
C]: Third Indochina War
D]: TRICK QUESTION WE WERE NEVER IN INDOCHINA!
What is the Second Indochina War?
300
List ONE of the United States' Army four-star generals during the Cold War, you better answer a real person... or else...
300
Which nation was the first to send a doggy into space?
What is the Soviet Union?
(The Soviet Union was the first to send an animal into orbit with the dog Laika on Sputnik 2 in 1957, although Laika died in orbit.)
400
YOU GOT ONE MINUTE, NAME A UNITED STATES PRESIDENT THAT'S FROM THE COLD WAR PERIOD (1946-1991) AND ISN'T ON THE ANSWER LIST!! >:O
My list: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton.
(Correct Answers:) What is Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush?
400
When did the Soviet–Afghan War start? (AKA: The first Afghan war or the start of AL-QAEDA!!)
A]: 1979, December 24
B]: 1978, April 2
C]: 1989, February 2
D]: 1981, June 22
What is 1979, December 24?
400
Name four pro-communist belligerents (nations/military organizations) and four pro-democractic belligerents (nations/military organizations) THAT FOUGHT in the Vietnam War, you have FOUR minutes. (No Britain is not one of them)
Pro-Communist Belligerents:
- North Vietnam
- Viet Cong and PRG
- Pathet Lao
- Khmer Rouge
- GRUNK (from 1970)
- China (1965–1969)
- Soviet Union
- North Korea
Pro-American Belligerents:
- South Vietnam
- United States
- South Korea
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Laos
- Cambodia (1967–1970)
- Khmer Republic (1970–1975)
- Thailand
- Philippines
- Taiwan
- Spain
400
On March 10, 1952, three months before the elections, _________, with army backing, staged a coup and seized power. He ousted outgoing President Carlos Prío Socarrás, canceled the elections and took control of the government as a provisional president.
Who was the military leader that overthrew the government of Cuba during 1952?
A]: Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar
B]: Ramón Grau
C]: Carlos Prío Socarrás
D]: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
Who is Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar?
AHAHAHAHAH!
400
Great, now what state was Neil Armstrong born in? (No hints, this is supposed to be hard. >:O)
What is Wapakoneta, Ohio?
500
Who was the FIRST president of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944–1946)?
A]: Charles de Gaulle
B]: Georges Augustin Bidault
C]: Félix Gouin
D]: Vincent Auriol
What is CHARLES DE GAULLE!?
Remember Vincent Auriol, he's important for later.
500
In 1946, the Iranian Crisis occurred as a result of the Soviet Union's refusal to withdraw its troops from Iran, leading to the establishment of pro-Soviet autonomous governments in northern Iran, including the Azerbaijan People's Government and the Republic of Mahabad.
What did the Soviet Union do?
Under U.S. pressure and through the United Nations, the Soviets eventually withdrew in May.
What is they left?
500
BONUS QUESTION! (If you get this wrong you lose 1,000 points but if you are right, you get 2,000 POINTS!)
In answer to the Prague Spring, on 20 August 1968, the Soviet Army, together with most of their Warsaw Pact allies, invaded Czechoslovakia. Why was this invasion so historial, what made it special compared to the other Soviet invasions in Europe?
(And no, it wasn't what someone said. Think of military operations and World War II.)
The invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968 was one of the biggest military operations on European soil since World War II.
500
The single plane crash with the greatest loss of Soviet officers occurred on February 7, 1981, when a Tupolev Tu-104 crashed near Leningrad, killing __ high-ranking military personnel.
A]: 28
B]: 19
C]: 15
D]: 13
What is 28?
- Fatalities: All 50 people on board were killed. Among them were 16 admirals and generals of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, including the fleet's commander, Admiral Emil Spiridonov.
- Cause: The accident was caused by improper loading of the aircraft. Military officers reportedly ignored weight and seating instructions, and heavy rolls of printing paper were not properly secured. During takeoff, the shifting cargo moved the aircraft's center of gravity past safe limits, causing it to stall and crash shortly after liftoff.
500
But which nation was the first to send an ANIMAL into space?
New question, what the FIRST insect to be sent into space? (It's not a dog, okay?!)
What is fruit flies?
(The United States was the first nation to send an animal into space, launching fruit flies on a V-2 rocket in 1947.)