Modern American History
This incident in 1962 nearly led to a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and Russia.
What is the Cuban Missle Crisis?
This invasion began on June 6, 1944, better known as D-Day.
What is the Invasion of Normandy?
Prior to declaring independence in 1966, this country was known as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland.
What is Botswana?
The Irish Famine took place in this year.
What is 1845?
This Italian specialty is made by melting cheese and tomato sauce over friend chicken cutlets.
What is Chicken Parmesan?
This was the year women received the right to vote in the United States.
What is 1920?
These two countries were already involved in a military conflict before the beginning of World War II.
What are Japan and China?
These are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, along the northern border of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Uganda.
What are the Virunga Mountains?
He assasinated Franz Ferdinand.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
These small dogs were originally bred in Mexico to be bed warmers.
What are chihuahuas?
This U.S. President gave the White House its current name.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This was the longest battle of WWII.
What is the Battle of the Atlantic (1939-1945)?
Due to their influence during the Italian colonial period, Italian is still spoken/understood by some in former colonies in Africa. Name two.
What are Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, Ethiopia? (also acceptable: Tunisia and Egypt)
Otto Von Bismarck was known as the Iron _________.
What is Chancellor?
This Baltimore baseball team is named for a local bird.
What is an Oriole?
New Mexico became a state in this year.
What is 1912?
This was the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
What is the Enola Gay?
He was South Africa's new prime minister in 1989, and he started the process to dismantle apartheid.
Who is F.W. de Klerk
This was the architect who rebuilt London after the Great Fire of 1666.
Who was Sir Christopher Wren?
This is a competetive team sport played with a flat plastic disc.
What is Ultimate Frisbee?
Before 1904, the area that is now called "Times Square" in Manhattan was known as this.
What was Long Acre Square?
This was the largest battleship of World War II.
What is the Yamato? (Also acceptable, her sister ship, Musashi)
This is the newest African country.
What is the Republic of South Sudan?
Switzerland officially gain its independence in this year.
What is 1648?
What is funk?