World War I
This was the year in which the war started
What is 1914?
This year was the year the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.
What was 1945?
This Soviet leader was in power during the first world war.
Who was Josef Stalin?
In which island country did the USSR plant nuclear weapons pointing at the US in the missile crisis of 1962?
Cuba
The year the Titanic sunk.
What is 1912?
This country was the first to declare war (on Serbia) after their Archduke was assassinated.
What is Austria-Hungary?
This is the much-praised British Naval Officer who would later become the Prime Minister.
Who was Winston Churchill?
These were the two major ideologies conflicting in the Cold War.
What are Communism and Capitalism?
Which major global resource was rediscovered (found a new purpose for in) in the 20th century?
Oil.
The year in which Neil Armstrong landed on the moon (100 for the decade)
What is 1969?
The region of the Mediterranean containing Bosnia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Albania (Or, for 200 points, the capital city of one of these countries
What are The Balkans? Or,
Sarajevo, Sofia, Belgrade, Athens, Bucharest, Podgorica, Pristina, Skopje, and Tirana.
Name 1 country that invaded Poland in 1939 (There are 3)
Germany, The Soviet Union, and a Slavic Coalition.
Name 1 communist country other than the Soviet Union (At any time)
Possible answers-
Cuba
China
This was the year in which the atomic bomb was first used (At Los Alamos)
What is 1945?
These are the two Japanese cities America bombed with an atomic bomb.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This ancient country (In the same region as Serbia) refused to be involved in the war, although it controlled strategic points that could have saved Serbia from the invasion of 1916.
What is Greece?
This was the type of animal used to carry messages throughout the war.
What is a pigeon?
Name two of the countries involved in proxy wars during the Cold War (100 for 1)
Possible answers-
Vietnam
Korea
This was the year the Soviet Union fell.
What is 1991?
The year in which MLK Jr. was assassinated (x2 if you know how long the assassin's sentence was).
What is 1968? and, What is 99 years?
This is the nationality of the man who assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and, for x2 points, his name. (Or, for 500 points, the name of the same country's emperor at the time)
What is Bosnian? (Serbian also accepted) and, Who was Gavrilo Princip?, and, Who was Franz Joseph?
This was the military strategy Germany used to encircle the French, and later the Soviet Union, in the war.
What is Blitzkrieg?
This man created the philosophy of Communism, and wrote "The Communist Manifesto" with Friedrich Engels.
Who was Karl Marx?
Explain the term Dual Monarchy in the context of Austria-Hungary.
Two countries ruled by a single monarch.
In which year did the US 'violate Canada's sovereignty'? Or, in which years were the Watergate scandal (Nixon)?
1985, or, 1972-74