Many Indians were angry at the British after WWI because...
What is "because they weren't granted their independence"?
100
Date that FDR declared was the Day of Infamy.
What is December 7, 1941?
100
Event that took place in Normany Beach in 1944.
What is D-Day?
100
Who were the Big Three?
Who were FDR/Truman, Churchill and Stalin?
100
Massive package of financial and other types of aid designed to boost the economies of western European countries after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This march was an example of civil disobedience in India.
What is Great Salt March?
200
The president who ordered the A-Bomb to be dropped.
Who is President Harry Truman?
200
The event wherein the French and British soldiers were rescued from a beach by ordinary fishermen and boatmen.
What is the Miracle of Dunkirk?
200
The year the first two A-Bombs were detonated and the two cities that were attacked.
When is 1945 and what are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
Time of relaxed tensions during the Cold War.
What is detente?
300
This was established in Japan which strengthened democracy in this nation in the 1920s.
What is the Diet?
300
The emperor of Japan and also the constitutional monarch after WWII during its unconditional surrender to the U.S.
Who is Emperor Hirohito?
300
What battle was the turning point in the Pacific led by General MacArthur?
What is the Battle of Midway and Coral Sea?
300
The five permanent countries of the United Nations, making up the Security Council.
What are U.S., Great Britain, Russia, China and France?
300
Line separating North and South Koreas?
What is the 38th parallel?
400
The Guomindang chased away the Communists led by Mao Zedong in this march.
What is the Long March?
400
The French general and politician who led France in WWII.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
400
These two operations were attempted invasions by Germany. (Name the operations and the countries.)
What is Operation Barbarossa (Russia) and Operation Sea Lion (Great Britain)?
400
The event where in the U.S. dropped food and medical supplies into East Germany.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400
Name of the Communist group in Cambodia led by Pol Pot.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
500
This anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement grew out of student participants in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting against the Chinese government.
What is the May 4th movement?
500
This former government of Germany was weak, whiny and wimpy (prior to Hitler's take-over).
What is the Weimar Republic?
500
Site of a battle in Egypt that became the turning point in WWII.
What is Battle of El Alamein?
500
Replacement of Stalin when he died.
Who is Nikita Khrushev?
500
The American-supported leader of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.