WWI (1914-1918)
This event in Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The stock market crash of 1929 led to this global economic downturn.
What is the Great Depression?
WWII began when Germany invaded this country on September 1, 1939.
What is Poland?
This military alliance was formed in 1949 to counter Soviet influence.
What is NATO
The use of this type of warfare in trenches led to a stalemate on the Western Front.
What is trench warfare?
his political ideology, led by Mussolini in Italy, emphasized nationalism and authoritarian rule.
What is Fascism?
This surprise attack by Japan on December 7, 1941, brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The ideological conflict between the U.S. and USSR after WWII.
What is the Cold War?
The Treaty of Versailles placed sole responsibility for WWI on this country.
What is Germany?
This 1919 labor protest in Canada saw over 30,000 workers walk off the job, demanding better wages and working conditions, leading to violent clashes with authorities.
What is the Winnipeg General Strike?
The project that developed the first nuclear weapons, leading to bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This battle, fought in 1915, was the first time Germany used poison gas on a large scale, marking a new era of chemical warfare.
What is the Second Battle of Ypres?
In 1935, unemployed workers in Canada boarded freight trains to travel east in this movement, demanding relief and fair wages from the federal government.
What is the On-to-Ottawa Trek?
The codename for the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
What is Operation Overlord or D-Day
This 1970 crisis in Canada saw the FLQ kidnap a British diplomat and a Quebec minister, leading Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to invoke the War Measures Act.
What is the October Crisis?
This German military strategy aimed to avoid a two-front war by quickly defeating France before turning to fight Russia, but ultimately failed.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This environmental disaster of the 1930s devastated Canadian and U.S. prairie farms, forcing many families to migrate in search of work.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The turning point battle on the Eastern Front, where the Soviets defeated the Germans in 1943.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
The year the Berlin Wall fell, symbolizing the end of the Cold War.
What is 1989?