American History
This secret government weapons project was the subject of a 2023 film, starring Cillian Murphy, that saved the American movie theater business as one half of the "Summer of Barbenheimer." It also took advantage of the American university system to complete the first Atom Bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This wife was the only one to outlive the infamous King Henry VIII
Who is Catherine Parr?
Europeans brought this disease to the Americas, which was later supposedly transmitted via dirty blankets.
What is Smallpox?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This foreign force invaded Japan during the 13th century.
What are The Mongols/ Yuan Dynasty?
In 1955, this privatized park, first of its kind, reimagined recreation for Southern Californians and provided escapism in a capitalist utopia at the height of the Cold War.
What is Disneyland?
This long-lasting medieval empire included much of modern-day Germany and Austria.
What is The Holy Roman Empire?
This Spanish city was the heart of the enterprise of the Indies.
What is Sevilla?
This infamous ship sunk in the month of April in 1912.
What is the Titanic?
This is the peace treaty that settled WWII.
What is the Treaty of San Francisco?
This supposed naval battle gave President Johnson the political cover to fully commit American armed forces in the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
This was a kingdom in the Middle Ages and is today a part of the modern Czech Republic.
What is Bohemia?
This infamous conquistador first participated in the conquest of Peru and then embarked on a campaign of destruction in the Gulf South.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
This fruit is considered to be bad luck on a ship.
What are bananas?
This war had the British and French armies burn down the Summer Palace in China.
What is the Second Opium War?
This campaign, led by multiple civil rights organizations, attempted to register black voters across the Mississippi and ended in tragedy with the murder of three volunteers in the summer of 1964.
What is the Freedom Summer?
This was the defensive barrier that the French built along their eastern border after World War I.
What is The Maginot Line?
This Indigenous group, of South America, was the only one that the Spanish could not defeat, remaining independent until the middle of the 19th century.
Who are the Mapuche?
This is the term for a legal pirate. They had a letter of marque from their country stating they could attack nations with whom they were at war.
What is a privateer?
This is the name of the revolutionary ballet that Richard Nixon watched with Mao's wife when he visited China in 1972.
What is the Red Detachment of Women?
This act, part of FDR's Second New Deal, redefined the relationship between labor and capital by for the first time protecting workers' right to unionize and union elections through the National Labor Relations Board.
What is the Wagner Act? or What is the National Labor Relations Act?
This famous mystic convinced the Pope to return to Rome from Avignon in 1377.
Who is Catherine of Siena?
This leader rebuilt Lisbon after it was destroyed by an earthquake, tsunami, and fire in the 1760s.
Who is Marquis de Pombal?
This port was known as the "wickedest port in the world."
What is Port Royal, Jamaica?
This Chinese leader wrote the book How to be a good Communist.
Who is Liu Shaoqi