EUROPEAN HISTORY
CANADIAN HISTORY
US HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
HISTORY HEAVY WEIGHTS
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THIS EUROPEAN COUNTRY SPARKED WORLD WAR 1 AFTER ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND WAS ASSASSINATED IN SARAJEVO.

WHAT IS AUSTRIA-HUNGARY?

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THIS PROVINCE WAS THE LAST TO JOIN CONFEDERATION IN 1949

WHAT IS THE NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR?

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THIS DOCUMENT, SIGNED IN 1776, ANNOUNCED THE THIRTEEN COLONIES' INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN

WHAT IS THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 

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THIS EVENT ON SEPTEMBER 1,1939, MARKED THE OFFICIAL START OF WORLD WAR II

WHAT IS GERMANY'S INVASION OF POLAND?

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THIS COLD WAR CRISIS IN 1962 BROUGHT THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION TO THE BRINK OF NUCLEAR WAR

WHAT IS THE CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS

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THIS 16TH CENTURY MOVEMENT STARTED BY MARTIN LUTHER, CHALLENGED THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND RESHAPED CHRISTIANITY

WHAT IS THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

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THIS EUROPEAN EXPLORER IS CREDITED WITH FOUNDING QUEBEC CITY IN 1608

WHO IS SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN

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THIS 1898 CONFLICT, SPARKED BY THE EXPLOSION OF THE USS MAINE, RESULTED IN THE U.S. GAINING CONTROL OF TERRITORIES LIKE PEURTO RICO AND GUAM

WHAT IS THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR?

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THIS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER FAMOUSLY DECLARED, "WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER"

WHO IS WINSTON CHURCHILL

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THIS 14TH CENTURY PANDEMIC KILLED AN ESTIMATED 25 MILLION PEOPLE IN EUROPE AND WAS CAUSED BY THE BACTERIUM YERSINIA PESTIS

WHAT IS THE BLACK DEATH?

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THIS 1815 BATTLE MARKED THE FINAL DEFEAT OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO?

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IN 1867, THIS EVENT CREATED THE DOMINION OF CANADA WITH FOUR ORIGINAL PROVINCES 

WHAT IS THE CONFEDERATION

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THIS 19TH CENTURY MOVEMENT SOUGHT TO END SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

WHAT IS THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT?

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THIS 1940 AIR CAMPAIGN WAS THE FIRST MAJOR MILITARY BATTLE FOUGHT ENTIREMELY IN THE SKIES

WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN

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THIS MILITARY LEADER'S FAILED INVASIN OF RUSSIA IN 1812 IS OFTEN CITED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST STRATEGIC BLUNDERS IN HISTORY

WHO IS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE?

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THIS ALLIANCE CREATED IN 1955 WAS THE SOVIET UNIONS ANSWER TO NATO?

WHAT IS THE WARSAW PACT?

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THIS EXPLORER WAS THE FIRST EUROPEAN CREDITED WITH RECHING THE PACIFIC COAST OF CANADA BY LAND

WHO IS ALEXANDER MACKENZIE?

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THIS 1777 BATTLE, CONSIDERED A TURNING POINT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, CONVINCED FRANCE TO ALLY WITH THE U.S

WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF SARATOGA?

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THIS UPRISING IN APRIL 1943 BECAME THE LARGEST JEWISH REVOLT DURING WWII, RESISTING DEPORTATIONS TO TREBLINKA

WHAT IS THE CARSAW GHETTO UPRISING

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THIS ANCIENT NORTH AFRICAN CITY FOOUGHT THREE WARS AGAINST ROME BEFORE BEING DESTROYED IN 146 BCE. 

WHAT IS CARTHAGE

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THIS 1648 SERIES OF TREATIES ENDED THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR AND IS CREDITED WITH ESTABLISHING THE PRINCIPLES OF MODERN STATE SOVERIGNTY IN EUROPE

WHAT IS THE PEACE OF WESTPHALIA

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THIS 1970 CRISIS SAW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INVOKE THE WAR MEASURES ACT AFTER THE FLQ KIDNAPPED A QUEBEC CABINET MINISTER AND A BRITISH DIPLOMAT

WHAT IS THE OCTOBER CRISIS

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THIS 1955 INCIDENT BEGAN WHEN A YOUNG BLACK TEENAGER WAS MURDERED IN MISSISSIPPI, SPARKING NATIONAL OUTRAGE AND FUELING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

WHO IS EMMETT TIL?

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THIS SS OFFICER, KNOWN AS THE "ANGEL OF DEATH", PERFORMED DEADLY HUMAN EXPERIMENTS ON PRISONERS AT AUSCHWITZ

WHO IS JOSEPH MENGELE

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FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF THIS MMACEDONIAN KING AT AGE 32, HIS GENERALS-KNOWN AS THE DIADOCHI- SPLIT HIS EMPIRE IN A SERIES OF WARS THAT LASTED DECADES. 

WHO IS ALEXANDER THE GREAT?