Events
This offered appeasement to Germany, setting off WWII.
Munich Agreement
These were twice detonated to end WWII
Nuclear bombs
The site of the Beer Hall Putsch led by Hitler took place here in 1923.
Munich
His assassination started WWI
Arch Duke Ferdinand
pre WW1 worldwide intergovernmental organization created to maintain world peace
League of Nations
This German riot is referred to as the “night of broken glass.”
Kristallnacht
This was used to delay advancing infantry and usually placed directly in front of trenches in WWI
Barbed Wire
Allied Forces landed here on D-Day, June 6, 1944
Normandy, France
He championed appeasement
Chamberlain
Meeting of Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt
Yalta Conference
This destructive event consolidated Hitler’s power and discredited the communists in Germany.
Reichstag fire
These caused of the most casualties during World War I, they were either extremely heavy and mounted or handheld by the infantry
Automatic Machine Guns
The Truman Doctrine was intended mainly to aid these two countries.
Greece and Turkey
This president who led during Cuban Missile Crisis, was killed in 1963
John Kennedy
Meeting of Churchill, Stalin, Truman
Potsdam Conference
This document punished Germany economically, politically, and territorially after WWI
Treaty of Versailles
Manufacturing this device meant that American women could no longer purchase silk stockings.
Parachutes
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned here at the beginning of his 27-year incarceration
Robben Island
Leader of the Red Army during the Russian Revolution
Leon Trotsky
5 permanent members here must vote unanimously to pass any resolution
UN Security Council
This failed German invasion of Russia, ended in a rise of Russian hope against Germany
Operation Barbarossa
Better than technology, these people sent secret messages for the US military during World War Two based in a language the Japanese never broke.
Navajo Code-Talkers
The first country to gain independence in Africa, led by Nkrumah and the ideology of “positive action.”
Ghana
Benito Mussolini admitted to killing this individual to consolidate his power in Italy
Matteoti
Anti-apartheid Party headed by Nelson Mandela
African National Congress