American Revolution
He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
His assassination was an immediate cause of WW1.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The March 12th 1938 annexation of Austria by Nazis Germany.
What was the Anschluss?
These people worshipped many cat gods and goddesses.
Who were The Egyptians?
This black and white holocaust film won seven academy awards.
What is Schindler’s List?
This December 1773 protest against British taxation without representation featured colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This July 1916 battle was the bloodiest of WW1.
These were the code names given to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasak.
What were Little Boy and Fat Man?
The Golden Age of Athenian democracy occurred in this century.
What was the fifth century BC
This 1987 film described the life of Puyi, the final ruler of the Qing Dynasty.
What is The Last Emperor?
The final major battle of the Revolution occurred in this place.
What is Yorktown, Virginia?
This holiday now called Veterans’ Day originally commemorated the end of WW1.
What was Armistice Day?
He was the supreme commander of the Allied Forces on D-Day.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
Mesopotamia is located inside the borders of this modern country.
What is Iraq?
This film largely depicts the privileged life of the Austrian Aristocracy before the Anschluss.
What is The Sound of Music?
This phrase describes the opening firing of guns that stunned everyone at Lexington and Concord.
What is the "shot heard round the world.”
This German leader abdicated two days before the end of the War.
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II?
This was the first Allied country to fall to the Nazis.
What is France?
This Chaldean King ordered the destruction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
This novel by Erich Maria Remarque set during World War I was twice made into an Academy-award winning film.
What is All Quiet on the Western Front?
Laws imposed by British lawmakers as a punishment for Massachusettes' actions in the Boston Tea Party.
What were the INTOLERABLE ACTS?
The 1915 sinking of this British ocean liner by a German u-boat altered American opinion about entering the War.
What is the Lusitania?
The Americans accepted the Japanese surrender on this vessl, now on permanant display at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
What is the Battleship Missouri?
This third-century B.C. Chinese emperor had an army of Terra Cotta Warriors constructed to accompany him in the afterlife.
Who is Qin Shi Huang?
This 2016 film depicted the contributions of three African-American female computers to the early days of the U.S. space effort.
What is Hidden Figures?