Religion
World War I
World War II
Holocaust
Wild Card
100

The three Abrahamic faiths

What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

100

The kind of fighting WWI became famous for

What is trench warfare?

100

The event that led the United States to join World War II

What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

100

Two laws/events that led up to the Holocaust in Germany

What is

- Kristallnacht?

- (laws from sheet)?

100

The difference between the words Islam and Muslim

What is Islam is the name of the religion and a Muslim is someone who follows it?

200

One feature all three Abrahamic faiths have in common

What is monotheism?


What is belief in helping the less fortunate?

200

The man whose assassination triggered the start of World War I

Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria?

200

Why the United Kingdom declared war on Germany

What is an alliance with Poland, which Germany had attacked?

200

Name of a death camp

What is 

Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Majdanek, Trostinets?

200

The tone/attitude of German politics in the 1920s

What is aggressive and argumentative, due to bitterness of returning soldiers from WWI?

300

One feature of Christianity that is different than Islam or Judaism

What is believing Jesus is the savior and son of God?

300

The years in which World War I occurred

What is 1914-1918?

300

The reason why Russia did not retaliate when Germany invaded Poland

What is a secret deal to share territory in Eastern Europe?

300

A country that notably accepted a number of Jewish refugees in the 1930s

What is the Dominican Republic

300

Meaning and significance of the word "Nabka"

What is the forced relocation of 700,000 Arab Palestinians after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War?

400

What is a feature of Islam that is different than Judaism or Christianity?

What is...

- five pillars

- Mohamed as God's final prophet

400

A requirement of the Treaty of Versaille, which ended the war

What is...

- Germany having to make reparations

- demilitarization of the Rhineland

- Germany having to disarm significantly

- Germany having to hand over former colonies

400

Event that brought World War II to an end

The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

400

Name of trial at which high-ranking Nazis were tried and punished for crimes against humanity after World War II

Nuremberg Trials

400

The father of Zionism

Theodor Herzl

500

A Christian or Muslim fundamentalist sect

What is...

- Wahabi

- Opus Dei

- Amish

500

Three of the four underlying causes that contributed to World War I

What are militarism, nationalism, colonialism, and alliances? 

500

Define "collaborator" in the context of World War II

Someone who helped the Nazis

500

What was the name of the mobile killing squads that massacred Jewish people in Eastern Europe during WWII?

Einsatzgruppen

500

Significance and year of the Balfour Declaration

What is the 1917 document stating British support for a Jewish state in Palestine