World War I
This event is often cited as the short term cause of WWI.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by Bosnian Serb terrorists.
The event that brought the US into WWII.
What was the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
The man credited with uniting Germany in 1870.
Who is Bismarck?
The American President during the Great Depression and most of WWII.
Who is FDR?
The ideology created by Marx and Engels.
What is communism?
The term given to the type of war where neither side can win except by wearing down the other side completely.
What is a war of attrition?
Initially the Germans did a lot of damage to Allied shipping, using these naval vessels.
What are u boats or submarines?
The King of Germany who fired Bismarck.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
Any British colony that gained independence after WWII.
What is.........India, Palestine, Ghana, Kenya, etc.
The ideology that suggests the government should be involved in the economy to re-distribute wealth in a more equitable fashion.
What is Socialsim?
One of the weapons that successfully broke the stalemate on the Western Front.
What are tanks or planes?
The battle that was the turning point on the Eastern Front.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
The year the Berlin Wall was built.
What is 1961?
The country created in 1948 after Britain's withdrawal from Palestine.
What is Israel?
The ideology espoused/used by Franco in Spain.
What is fascism?
Two of the treaties that ended WWI.
What are: Versailles, St. Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, Sèvres
This war tactic, used extensively by the allies, was criticized, after the war, for killing too many civilians.
What was aerial bombing or carpet bombing?
The year the Berlin Wall came down.
What is 1989?
The country that did not immediately agree to put their airforce on alert during the CMC, even though the US instructed them to.
What is Canada?
The ideology where the individual and individual rights are supreme and is often linked to democracy.
What is liberalism?
The name of the battle when the Germans first use gas as a weapon of war.
What is the Second Battle of Ypres?
The two major conferences held by the "Big Three" in 1945 to make decisions about the post war world.
What were the Yalta and Potsdam conferences? (Accept Bretton Woods too>)
The official name of West Germany (in English).
What is the Federal Republic of Germany?
The name of Mao's program in the 1950s that he put into place to modernize the economy.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The ideology that is a dictatorship and where the leader or small group at the top take total cultural, political, legal and social control of the country.
What is totalitarianism?