Australia
Where did the ANZAC troops land in 1915?
Gallipoli
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand started WWI between which two countries initially?
Austria-Hungary or Serbia
The Vietnam War lasted how many years?
20 years (1955-1975)
What is the currency in Russia?
Roubles
What divided the capital city during the Cold War?
Berlin Wall (1961 - 1989)
Who succeeded Stalin and was leader of Soviet Union during Cold War?
Nikita Khrushchev
In 1938, the 26th Jan was initially a day of protest before it later became Australia Day. What was it called?
Day of Mourning
Why did the US suddenly join WWII?
Pearl Harbour
How did Viet Cong travel throughout the country?
The Romanov dynasty had ruled Russia for approx. how many years before it ended with Tsar Nicholas II in 1918?
300
When was the Weimar Republic founded and when did it collapse?
1918 - 1933
When did the Soviet Union collapse?
1991
In which year did Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologise for the Stolen Generations?
2008
What was the name of the German bombing campaign during WWII?
Blitzkrieg
The Vietnam War was the first ever war to be...?
televised
The capital city, St Petersburg was renamed twice - what were the two other names?
Petrograd and then Leningrad
Which famous physicist was from Germany?
Albert Einstein
The world came close to full-blown nuclear war in an event known as...?
Cuban Missile Crisis
What did the rejected 1999 Referendum propose?
That Australia become a republic i.e. kick out the British monarchy
What is it called when neither side is making progress during war?
stalemate
Which US President increased troop deployment to Vietnam?
John F. Kennedy
Which year did Vladimir Putin become President?
2000
Who was the first female Chancellor?
Angela Merkel
What did the US' Bay of Pigs invasion aim to do?
Overthrow Fidel Castro as leader of Cuba
In 1921, the first woman elected to Parliament was named?
Edith Cowan
What was Hermann Goering's sentence after the Nuremberg Trial found him guilty of war crimes?
death sentence (by hanging)
How did the Vietnam War end?
the US withdrew from the war and left South Vietnam to fend for itself
How many countries were part of the Soviet Union?
15
What global event did the Nazis host in Berlin as a form of propaganda?
Olympics
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Kosovo were part of which country during the Cold War?
Yugoslavia
The first ever European sighting of Australia was actually made in 1606. Which country was Willem Janszoon from?
Netherlands
What flu caused a pandemic during WWI?
Spanish flu
When the war ended, the US evacuated 3000 South Vietnamese orphans out of the country. What was the name of the operation?
Operation Babylift
Who was the first Russian empress?
Catherine I
The famous concept of Bauhaus emerged from Weimar Germany and refers to a type of what?
Art or architecture
What did the Soviets call their largest nuclear bomb?
Tsar Bomba