First World War
The year in which the first world war began.
What is 1914?
The leader of the Bolshevik Party during the Russian Revolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The year which the Second World War began.
What is 1939?
The major military operation took place on the beaches of Normandy in 1944.
What is D-Day?
The African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The country ruled by Emperor Wilhelm II during the war.
What is Germany?
The year the February Revolution occured in Russia.
What is 1917?
The event which triggered the outbreak of the Second World War.
What is the German invasion of Poland?
The Prime Minister of Britain during the the Second World War.
Who is Winston Churchill?
The Supreme Court case in 1954 declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
The country linked to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is Serbia?
The event in 1905 is often seen as a precursor to the Russian Revolution.
What is Bloody Sunday?
The event that led to the United States entering the war.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbour?
The main geopolitical reason why the Germans wanted to capture North Africa.
What is the Suez Canal?
The major civil rights event that took place on August 28, 1963, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is the March on Washington?
The treaty which marked the official end of the First World War.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The Tsar of Russia in the early 1900s.
Who is Nicholas II?
The month and year which the German sixth army surrendered at Stalingrad.
What is February 1943?
The German General who fought the British at El Alamein. (full name)
Who is Erwin Rommel?
The year which black Americans were emancipated from slavery in the USA.
What is 1863?
The event which led to the United States joining the First World War.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania/the Zimmerman telegram?
The name of the Russian Secret Police under Tsarism.
What is the Okhrana?
The four stages of Blitzkreig.
What is paratroopers behind lines, dive-bombing, then fast-moving tanks followed by German infantry?
The estimated amount of people killed from the blast of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs.
What is 120,000?
A famous civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 to advance justice for African Americans.
What is the NAACP?