WW1
This assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary in June 1914 is widely regarded as the spark that ignited World War 1.
What is the assassination in Sarajevo
This British Prime Minister famously declared, "We shall fight on the beaches" during a 1940 speech.
Who is Winston Churchill?
What is the steam engine?
The attack on pearl harbor occurred on this date, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "a date which will live in infamy."
What is December 7, 1941?
The genocide of Jews during World War II.
The Holocaust
This alliance, consisting of Germany, Austria hungary, and Italy, wad opposed by the Triple Entente.
What is the Triple Entente?
Thsi suprise attack by Japan on December 7, 1941, led to the United States entering the war.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This 1793 invention by Eli Whitney revolutionized the processing of cotton by quickly removing seeds.
What is the cotton gin?
Each ship on Battleship row was named after what?
A state in the United States
A place where people are concentrated and imprisoned without trial.
What is a Concentration camp.
What is mustard gas?
This pact, signed in 1940, created the allience between Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What is the Tripartite Pact?
George Stephenson is credited with creating the mode of transportation, which utilized steam power on iron tracks.
What is the steam locomotive?
How many people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Around 200,000
When speaking about the "Holocaust," what time period are we referring to?
1933-1945
This treaty, signed in 1919, officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
What is the Treaty of Versailles
This 1942 battle in North Africa was a desicive victory for the allies and marked the beginning of the Axis retreat in the region.
What is the Second Battle of El Alamein?
This inventor introduced the assembly line to automobile manufacturing, drastically reducing production time.
Who is Henry Ford?
Whats the name of the famous beach in Oahu?
Waikiki Beach
How many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?
6 million
This 1916 battle one of the largest wars, saw over a million casualties and is known for its heavy use of trench warfare.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
The codename for the German plan to invade the Soviet Union in 1941 was this.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
Samuel Morse developed this system of dots and dashes, first used to transmit long distance messages in the 1830s.
What is Morse Code?
What got some of the men that were trapped in the sinking ships out?
By tapping Morse Code SOS
How many non-Jewish civilians were murdered during World War II in Europe?
5 million