Events
The Munich Agreement offered this to Germany, setting off WW2 as Hitler could take land without being stopped.
What is appeasement?
These were twice detonated to end WWII
What are nuclear bombs?
This was the location of Louis XIV palace.
What is Versailles?
His assassination started WWI
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
pre WW1 worldwide intergovernmental organization created to maintain world peace
What is the League of Nations?
This German riot is referred to as the “night of broken glass.”
What is Kristallnacht?
This was used in WW1 to protect soldiers from the new devastating war technologies
What are trenches?
Allied Forces landed here on D-Day, June 6, 1944
What is Normandy / France?
He warned against appeasement, and would become a famous British Prime Minister
Meeting of Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt at the end of WW2 to discuss the postwar era
What is the Yalta Conference?
This destructive strategy that Hitler employed to attack Poland?
What is blitzkreig?
These caused of the most casualties during World War I, they were either extremely heavy and mounted or handheld by the infantry
What are machine guns?
The Truman Doctrine was intended mainly to aid these two countries.
What are Greece and Turkey?
This president who led during Cuban Missile Crisis, was killed in 1963
Who is John F Kennedy?
This organization aids developing countries through loans and encourages trade
What is the World Bank?
This document punished Germany economically, politically, and territorially after WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This invention made possible early mass production, making use of British towns near water sources.
What is the steam engine?
This country was ultimately partitioned after its independence movement
What is India?
This individual had the leader of the Red Army during the Russian Revolution killed and then seized power in Russia
Who is Joseph Stalin?
5 permanent members make up part of this organization, while the rest of the world is part of the general assembly
What is the United Nations?
This lost battle after the German invasion of Russia, ended in a rise of Russian hope against Germany
What is Stalingrad?
This technology makes possible the spread of information around the world, it is now accessible even on phones.
What is the internet?
The first country to gain independence in Africa, led by Nkrumah and the ideology of “positive action.”
What is Ghana?
This individual was considered the sword of Italian unification
Who is Guiseppe Garibaldi?
Anti-apartheid Party headed by Nelson Mandela in South Africa
What is the ANC / African National Congress?