Vietnam
Japan
Cuba
Spanish American War NO! Spanish Civil War!
Miscellaneous
100
This General employed thousands of civilians to drag deconstructed artillery through the jungle to surround the French at Dien Bien Phu.
Giap
100
American embargoes on this pushed the Japanese to launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
Oil
100
This amendment to the Cuban constitution allowed the US to intervene militarily whenever it felt like it.
Platt Amendment
100
Americans like Ernest Hemingway and Englishmen like George Orwell served in the Spanish Civil War in these groups.
International Brigades
100
This team is for sure going to win the NCAA men's basketball tournament
Duke
200
This word commonly is used to describe the Vietnam war from an American perspecti
ve.
Quagmire
200
The arrival of American warships in 1853 led to this complete overhaul of Japan culturally, militarily, economically, and industrially. It became known as the...
Meiji Restoration
200
Castro enjoyed this sweet treat, the US used this information to try and poison him.
Ice Cream
200
Peasants in this section of Spain did not own land and lived in conditions near feudalism.
Latifundia (or the South)
200
This animal is bred from tigers and lions, they're known for their skills and magic.
Ligers
300
Nixon thought he could help bolster "Vietnamization" of the war by illegally attacking these two countries.
Laos and Cambodia
300
This emperor stepped down, admitting that he was in fact, not God walking the earth.
Hirohito
300
While Castro was not initially a Communist, there were two people in his close circle who were.
Che Guevara and Raul Castro
300
These two right wing parties made up the bulk of the political groups among the Nationalists, but they were subservient to Franco.
Falange (fascists) and Carlists (monarchists)
300
This man defeated Jim Jeffries to become the first black heavyweight champion.
Jack Johnson
400
The route VC soldiers used to carry out guerilla attacks and retreat into Cambodia was known as this
Ho Chi Minh Trail
400
Japanese settlers arrived in this home of the Qing dynasty in the 1930s
Manchuria
400
Operation Mongoose, defined by hundreds of failed attempts to assassinate Castro started under this US president.
Eisenhower
400
This group defended Barcelona from Nationalists and controlled the city through the war.
Anarchists
400
This man was shot in Memphis by the FBI*. His final book was titled "Where Do We Go From Here?"
Martin Luther King
500
This man went behind LBJ's back during peace negotiations with the North Vietnamese offering a "better deal"
Henry Kissinger
500
This American president negotiates a treaty that ends the Russo-Japanese War. He won the Nobel Peace Prize
Teddy Roosevelt
500
Cuban exiles trained in Florida and Louisiana to stage an invasion of Cuba that would start at this place. They failed. Miserably.
Bay of Pigs
500
The King abdicated his throne when this group won the election, but not by enough, allowing the start of the Second Republic of Spain.
Monarchists
500
This government started Apartheid in 1948, they would be in power until 1994. What country, and who was the first democratically elected president?
South Africa, Nelson Mandela
600
General Giap referred to this as the most important front in the Tet Offensive
American Public Opinion
600
The Mukden incident was a false flag attack orchestrated by Japanese forces in Manchuria to legitimate an attack on Manchuria. Japanese soldiers did this insignificant action and said Chinese soldiers did it.
Blew up a small section of a rail line.
600
At the battle of Santa Clara Che Guevara staged a surprise attack on one of these.
Train full of Batista's troops
600
German bombers attacked this town in the Basque country.
Guernica
600
This painter was among the last people to see Soviet exile Leon Trotsky before he was assassinated with an ice axe in Mexico City.
Frida Kahlo
700
The French had tried to reconfigure Vietnamese rural life similar to the way that American advisors had directed the South Vietnamese did. The US called these strategic hamlets, the French called their program this...
Pacification
700
The Japanese forces in Manchuria were known as this
Kwantung Army
700
The first president of a free Cuba was not Castro, but this man
Urrutia
700
These animals were slaughtered for food during the civil war as anarchists and communists took control of areas controlled by the liberal Republic government or Nationalists.
Bulls bred for bullfighting
700
This man* assassinated John F Kennedy*
George H.W. Bush* or OFFICIALLY Lee Harvey Oswald* and definitely not a second gunman*