Australia
World Wars
Vietnam War
Russia
Germany
Cold War
100

Where did the ANZAC troops land in 1915?

Gallipoli

100

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand started WWI between which two countries initially?

Austria-Hungary or Serbia

100

The Vietnam War lasted how many years?

20 years (1955-1975)

100

What is the currency in Russia?

Roubles

100

What divided the capital city during the Cold War?

Berlin Wall (1961 - 1989)

100

Who succeeded Stalin and was leader of Soviet Union during Cold War?

Nikita Khrushchev

200

In 1938, the 26th Jan was initially a day of protest before it later became Australia Day. What was it called?

Day of Mourning

200

Why did the US suddenly join WWII?

Pearl Harbour

200

How did Viet Cong travel throughout the country?

underground tunnels - Ho Chi Minh Trail
200

The Romanov dynasty had ruled Russia for approx. how many years before it ended with Tsar Nicholas II in 1918?

300

200

When was the Weimar Republic founded and when did it collapse?

1918 - 1933

200

When did the Soviet Union collapse?

1991

300

In which year did Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologise for the Stolen Generations?

2008

300

What was the name of the German bombing campaign during WWII?

Blitzkrieg

300

The Vietnam War was the first ever war to be...?

televised

300

The capital city, St Petersburg was renamed twice - what were the two other names?

Petrograd and then Leningrad

300

Which famous physicist was from Germany?

Albert Einstein

300

The world came close to full-blown nuclear war in an event known as...?

Cuban Missile Crisis

400

What did the rejected 1999 Referendum propose?

That Australia become a republic i.e. kick out the British monarchy

400

What is it called when neither side is making progress during war?

stalemate

400

Which US President increased troop deployment to Vietnam?

John F. Kennedy

400

Which year did Vladimir Putin become President?

2000

400

Who was the first female Chancellor?

Angela Merkel

400

What did the US' Bay of Pigs invasion aim to do?

Overthrow Fidel Castro as leader of Cuba

500

In 1921, the first woman elected to Parliament was named?

Edith Cowan

500

What was Hermann Goering's sentence after the Nuremberg Trial found him guilty of war crimes?

death sentence (by hanging)

500

How did the Vietnam War end?

the US withdrew from the war and left South Vietnam to fend for itself

500

How many countries were part of the Soviet Union?

15

500

What global event did the Nazis host in Berlin as a form of propaganda?

Olympics

500

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Kosovo were part of which country during the Cold War?

Yugoslavia

600

The first ever European sighting of Australia was actually made in 1606. Which country was Willem Janszoon from?

Netherlands

600

What flu caused a pandemic during WWI?

Spanish flu

600

When the war ended, the US evacuated 3000 South Vietnamese orphans out of the country. What was the name of the operation?

Operation Babylift

600

Who was the first Russian empress?

Catherine I

600

The famous concept of Bauhaus emerged from Weimar Germany and refers to a type of what?

Art or architecture

600

What did the Soviets call their largest nuclear bomb?

Tsar Bomba

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