World War I
What are the two main alliances from WWI
Allied Powers and Central Powers
What were the two big alliances from WWII
Allied Powers and Axis Powerss
The _____ missile crises
Cuban
The new type of bomb was created for the first time in 1952
The thermonuclear weapon (H-bomb).
What is the name of the Empire that held much of the Middle East and collapsed after world war 1
The Ottoman Empire
What does M.A.I.N. stand for
Militarism
Alliences
Imperialism
Nationalism
What were the major countries in the Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
The new type of engine used on aircraft
The Jet Engine
List three new states created after the fall of the USSR
Correct answers include:
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia.
What countries were part of the Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
What event was the turning point in the United States joining the war?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
The forgotten war
The Korean War
Acceptable answers:
Gas
Machine gun
Yugoslavia
Which two countries started the fighting
Austria-Hungary and Serbia
The two cities that received atomic bombings
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A proxy war.
The USSR (Yuri Gagarin)
What is the name of the treaty that split the world in half, one half for Spain, the other for Portugal
The Treaty of Tordesillas
What people were known as the Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference
Woodrow Wilson (U.S.), David Lloyd George (Great Britain), Vittorino Orlando (Italy), and Georges Clemenceau (France)
The two nations that fought in the Battle of Leningrad
The USSR and Germany
List 4 nations that developed Atomic weapons
Correct answers include
USA, USSR, France, UK, China, North Korea, India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa* Ukraine*
*Since dismantled
Name of the American space program that put two astronauts in space at the same time
Gemini
The new nation was formed from what was formerly the Belgian Congo
The DRC or Zaire