Chinese Civil War
What were the two sides of the Chinese Civil War?
What are the Nationalists Guomindang and the Chinese Communist Party
What was the CIA coup that failed in Cuba?
Bay of Pigs?
Who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
What is the Black Hand?
What event brought the US into WW2?
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Falklands War?
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
Who was Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong?
What is General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925 and Leader of the Communist Party in China
What crisis pushed the Cold War to the brink of becoming a nuclear conflict?
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Where the US placed missiles aimed towards the USSR in turkey so Russia retaliated by placing missiles in Cuba
What treaty ended WW1?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What was the name of the battle in which the Russia defeated Germany, marking a turning point in the European theater of World War Two?
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
What was the name of the treaty signed by the UK and Argentina in 1989, normalizing relations between the two countries after the Falklands War?
What is the Madrid Agreement?
What led to the Chinese Civil War?
What was a difference in political and social ideals that would lead the government
Why was batista disliked?
Poor standard of living, favored the rich, and lead a dictatorship
What was the spark that ignited World War One?
What is the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand as it revealed the tensions between the world powers and their greed for influence and power.
What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy, France in June 1944?
What is Operation Overlord?
Who ran territories independently, organized and taxed the people there, ran governments with their own laws and currency after the death of Yuan?
What are Warlords?
What was enacted during Castro's year of education that boosted his support?
Literacy Campaigns
What was the name of the series of battles that took place in 1916 between the British and German armies, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides?
What is the Battle of the Somme?
What was the name of the meeting in 1945 in which Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin discussed the post-World War Two reorganization of Europe?
What is the Yalta Conference?
What was the outcome of the civil war?
(What was left in China?)
What is the People's Republic of China?
What movement finally put an end to Batistas reign?
What is the July movement
What was the name of the German battle plan that aimed to quickly defeat France in World War One, but ultimately failed?
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
Failed due to incompetent german army, left open the southern german flank and exposed for french counter attack and finally they did not account for modern warfare
What were the effects of WW2 on Russia and the US?
US
-Unemployment decreased, african americans and women had more opportunities, developed economically, created new exports through the allies gained, GI Bill aided veterans, and was viewed as a Global Superpower
Russia
-reduced population, no longer a superpower, falling gdp, industrial output slowed dramatically,