Six
The Iroquois Confederacy of six Indian nations fought with the Huron over this good demanded by European traders in the Beaver Wars.
What is fur (or pelts)?
The number seven is associated with completion in the Bible, probably because of this cosmic event at the end of which God rested.
What is the Creation?
This nonviolent activist led a "salt march" to protest the British's salt monopoly in India.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This guy may have promised to not take over Czechoslovakia, but Chamberlain, did you seriously think appeasing him would give us "peace for our time?"
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This 1962 standoff between the US and USSR over nuclear weapons on a Caribbean island is considered the closest the world got to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This organization was founded by six former Confederate officers, including Nathan Bedford Forrest.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
In 1862, this commander pushed George McClellan back from Richmond during the Seven Days Battle.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This dictator's Great Leap Forward unintentionally caused a giant famine in which tens of millions of people starved.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This "Iron Chancellor" seriously ticked off Wilhelm II by being nice to socialists, so Wilhelm dismissed him.
American and Soviet tanks faced off at this feature splitting a capital in two when it was first constructed.
What is the Berlin Wall?
John Brown, backed by the Secret Six, led an unsuccessful slave rebellion at this location, but failed and was hanged.
What is Harpers Ferry?
This man pioneered graph theory after solving the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem. His number is roughly 2.718.
Who is Leonhard Euler?
This event named for a Genoese explorer refers to the bringing of foodstuffs like potatoes and tomatoes to Europe and horses and germs to the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This co-author of the Communist Manifesto also wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England, where he complained about their position.
Who is Friedrich Engels?
The Germans besieged this city named for a Soviet leader for 872 days during World War II, leading to the death of over a million people.
What is Leningrad?
This third of Henry VIII's six wives gave birth to future king Edward VI.
Who is Jane Seymour?
The Seven Years' War was preceded by this strange event following the War of the Austrian Succession in which Austria and Prussia switched alliances.
What is the Diplomatic Revolution?
The massive increase in food production driven in part by Norman Borlaug's development of semi-dwarf wheat was known by this two-word term.
What is the Green Revolution?
This military strategist wrote in his book On War that war is the "continuation of politics by other means."
Who is Carl von Clausewitz?
In the famed "Rumble in the Jungle," this boxer and loser was taunted by his opponent Muhammad Ali with "That all you got, George?" after throwing a particularly hard punch.
Who is George Foreman?
In the Six-Day War, Israel's land area roughly quadrupled when it acquired the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, and this region on its border with Lebanon.
What are the Golan Heights?
This man, the founder of the Yippies who once tried to levitate the Pentagon, was part of the Chicago Seven that incited riots over the 1968 DNC.
Who is Abbie Hoffman?
This Roman emperor had his servants get snow from the mountains so he could eat ice cream. He also forced his tutor Seneca the Younger to commit suicide, since he suspected him in the Pisonian Conspiracy.
Who is Nero?
This first chancellor of West Germany adhered to the Hallstein Doctrine, which cut off diplomatic relations with any country that recognized East Germany.
Who is Konrad Adenauer?
The American Indian Movement occupied this place in 1973 that was the site where soldiers massacred Native American Ghost Dancers, including Sitting Bull.
What is Wounded Knee?