CAT 1
To stick to
Adhere
Who was assassinated leading to a chain of events sparking World War I?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
to expect beforehand
Anticipate
This man led Italy in World War II
Benito Mussolini
(v.) to declare or state as truth, maintain or defend, put forward forcefully
Assert
something that completes or makes up a whole
complement
Who was the leader of Russia during World War I?
Tsar Nicholas II
(n.) sympathy for another's suffering; pity
compassion
These were the two geographic theaters of war
Pacific and European
Not friendly or forthcoming, distant
a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
Anecdote
What year did the United States join World War I?
1917
Open to more than one interpretation
Ambiguous
This was man was the prime minister of Britain during World War 2.
Winston Churchill
v.) to happen, occur; to happen to
befall
An excess of federal expenditures over federal revenues.
Deficit
This was the space between two opposing trenches.
No Man's Land
(adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
Coherent
This event prompted the United States to join World War II.
The attack on Pearl Harbor.
A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.
correlation
(adj.) clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving
cumbersome
This was an affliction suffered by many soldiers fighting in the trenches.
Trench Foot
to grow, flourish
burgeon
This President made the ultimate choice to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
Harry Truman
having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority
condescending