The Balkans are lovely this time of year...
This Austro-Hungarian Prince and his wife Sophie were killed while visiting the Balkans. Oh boy, here we go...
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
When I took over as President during the Depression I just had to talk to the American people in their living rooms over the radio through "Fireside Chats"
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt
I was the face of Soviet Communism from 1924-1953
Who is Joseph Stalin
We tried stick with this policy before and after WWI but still found ourself in WWII.
What is isolationism
I was at Versailles trying to push my 14 Points through after WWI when Ho Chi Minh asked for a word. I declined.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
It shocked many when this Slovenian basketball player was traded to the Lakers this year...
Who is Luka Doncic
According to Franklin D, Roosevelt is March of 1933 there is only one thing we have to fear...
What is "fear itself"
I was the leader of Chinese Communism after defeating Chiang Kai Shek in a civil war
Who is Mao Tse Tung
FDR wasn't exactly the 'wheeler and dealer' that President Trump is but he did propose this during the Great Depression...
What is the New Deal
I was the Supreme Allied Commander of the European theatre of WWII
Who is Dwight Eisenhower
As a Serb I call the Balkans home. With the help of my boys in the "Black Hand" I shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. I am a hero although I don't think the Bosnians would agree.
Who is Gavrilo Princip
The "day that will live in infamy" according to Franklin D Roosevelt...
The attack on Pearl Harbor 12/7/41
"Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want to hear them scream, I squeeze Berlin." They thought I'd be soft compared to Stalin, Ha!
Who is Nikita Kruschev
The Truman Doctrine delivered this policy with regards to Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe...
What is the Containment Policy
Well I was the Supreme Allied Commander of the Pacific theatre..
Who is Douglas MacArthur
When vacationing in the Balkans be sure to visit these two countries who Harry Truman made sure we were taken care of as his doctrine prescribed...
What are Greece and Turkey
Winston Chruchill might be looking for a new interior decorator for Eastern Europe as he describes the drapes in this speech Fulton, MO 1946
"The Sinews of Peace" "Iron Curtain Speech"
I was the leader of Vietnamese Communism although it didn't need to be that way if Woodrow Wilson took 5 minutes for me.
Who is Ho Chi Minh
Tony Soprano would have appreciated this plan to spend $12 billion to help Europe rebuild after WWII. Ha! They're still paying us back today! Plus the vig!
What is the Marshall Plan
I was in Versailles working as a cook when I asked to talk to Woodrow Wilson about fighting for our Vietnamese independence. Little did I know I'd be fighting against them years later.
Who is Ho Chi Minh
It's nice down here in the Balkans but 3's a crowd and we just can't get along even in the 90's with our ethnic differences
Who are the Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats
JFK might have been hungry when he delivered this speech to West Berliners in 1963..
"Ich Bin Ein Berliner"
I'm the OG. I led my Bolsheviks to turn Russia into a Communist state in 1917.
Who is Vladimir Lenin
According to the Eisenhower Doctrine, all any Communist threat needed was a good dose of this
What is massive retaliation
I slapped a soldier and got put on the sideline during WWII. But I played decoy during Operation Fortitude and Hitler bought it. Bottom line we win.
Who is George Patton