WWI
The countries that made up the Triple Entente
What are Great Britain, France, and Russia?
The victors of WWI
What are Great Britain, France, Russia, and Italy?
This dictator rose to power in 1933 as Chancellor of Germany
Who is Adolf Hitler?
The two alliances in WWII
What are the Allied and Axis Powers?
The two main superpowers after WWII
What is the Arms Race?
A world wide event in the spring of 1918 that killed 20 million people
What is the Flu Pandemic of 1918?
This dictator rose to power over Italy in 1922
Who is Benito Mussolini?
A military tactic that relies on speed and armored units to overwhelm any defenders that was developed in Poland
What is blitzkrieg?
The rivalry between the US and USSR that lasted until 1992
What is the Cold War?
The decisive allied victory that ruined the Schlieffen Plan
What is the 2nd Battle of the Marne?
The nation that formed after the Russian Revolution of 1917
What is the USSR?
This dictator rose to power over the USSR in 1929
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This battle lasted from 1942 to 1943 and was one of the major turning points of the Eastern Front of WWII
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
The metaphorical wall that separated Eastern Europe from the west, controlled by the USSR
What is the Iron Curtain?
The date of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination
When is June 28th 1914?
An area of land that German troops entered and occupied in 1936
What is the Rhineland?
Hitler ordered this event against the Jewish population in 1938 and it is regarded as the start of the Holocaust
What is Kristallnacht?
The name of a German failed operation that sought to break through the Kursk Buldge
What was Operation Citadel?
The estimated amount of casualties of WWII
What are 60 million casualties?
The name of a defensive line built along the French-German border that demoralized the French people
What is the Maginot Line?
A policy that Stalin enacted to root out enemies of the people
What is the Great Purge?
The two Japanese cities that were targets for the American atom bombs
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
WWII is known as the _____________