Russo-Japanese War
This Russian Pacific Fleet stronghold in Manchuria was besieged for months and surrendered in January 1905.
Port Arthur
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was assassinated in 1914 in this Bosnian city, sparking WWI.
Sarajevo
Hitler violated the Versailles Treaty by remilitarizing this demilitarized region bordering France in 1936.
The Rhineland
Japan invaded this Chinese region in September 1931 following the staged 'Mukden Incident' on a railway line.
Manchuria
This 1947 U.S. foreign policy pledged to prevent Soviet expansion by supporting free peoples resisting subjugation.
Containment
Japan's surprise naval attack on the Russian fleet here on the night of February 8, 1904 opened the war without a formal declaration.
Port Arhtur
Germany's plan to quickly defeat France by sweeping through Belgium before turning east to fight Russia was called this.
Schlieffen Plan
This 1938 agreement between Britain, France, Italy, and Germany handed the Sudetenland to Germany, epitomizing appeasement.
Munich Agreement
Japan's brutal 1937–38 killing and assault on civilians in China's then-capital became known by this city's name.
Nanking
The military alliance established by the Soviet Union in eastern Europe
Warsaw Pact
This bloody 1905 land battle in Manchuria was one of the largest in history up to that point, resulting in a Japanese victory.
Battle of Mukden
This treaty saw Italy join the war in 1915.
Treaty of London
Germany's annexation of Austria in March 1938 was called this, meaning 'union' in German.
Anschluss
Japan joined Germany and Italy in this 1940 military alliance that pledged mutual defense.
The Tripartite Pact
This 1962 standoff, triggered by Soviet missiles in a Caribbean nation, brought the world closest to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Japanese Admiral Tōgō annihilated the Russian Baltic Fleet here in May 1905, effectively ending the war.
Battle of Tsushima Strait
Germany sent this secret 1917 telegram to Mexico proposing a military alliance against the United States.
The Zimmermann Telegram
This August 1939 non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union contained a secret protocol dividing Eastern Europe.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
The US issued an oil embargo on Japan in reaction to the Japanese seizure of which region?
Indochina
Coined by Winston Churchill, this phrase described the ideological divide separating Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from the West.
Iron Curtain
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt brokered the 1905 peace treaty ending the war, signed in this New Hampshire city.
Portsmouth
The 1919 peace treaty ending WWI imposed massive reparations on Germany and forced it to accept sole blame via this infamous clause.
Treaty of Versailles
The name of the informal agreement between the UK, France, and Italy to oppose Germany
Stresa Front
Japan established this puppet state in Manchuria in 1932, installing the last Qing emperor as its nominal leader.
Manchukuo
President Nixon's historic 1972 diplomatic visit to this nation was a major Cold War realignment, pitting a Communist rival against the USSR.
The People's Republic of China