World War 1
Franz Ferdinand
What spurred the USA to get involved in WW2?
Pearl Harbor
What happened the world economy after WWI?
Great Depression
What did Article 5 of NATO determine?
If one country gets attacked, all will go to its defense
What group does Ms. Mamassian belong to?
Armenians
Trench warfare
What major city had a long siege, ending with a Russian victory over Germany?
Stalingrad
Who rose to power in Germany in the 1930s?
Adolf Hitler
What satellite did the USSR launch into space in 1957?
Sputnik
What group attempted to wipe out all Armenians?
Turks
What nation overthrew the Tsar during the war?
Russia
What battle marked the turning point in Western Europe?
D-Day invasion
Benito Mussolini?
Where did a literal wall divide East and Western societies?
Berlin
The Holocaust killed 6 million___________?
Jews
What nation replaced Russia after the communist takeover?
What battle marked the turning point in the Pacific?
Midway
Who ruled the USSR with an iron fist in the 1930s?
Joseph Stalin
What was the name of the symbolic divide between East and West in Europe?
Iron Curtain
The Hutus tried to eliminate all Tutsis were?
Rwanda
What treaty ended the war?
Treaty of Versailles
Fat Man and Little Boy fell on what two cities?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What British leader was associated with the concept of appeasement?
Neville Chamberlain
What country is currently divided into North and South as a result of a proxy war from the 1950s?
Korea
Apartheid took away rights from non-whites in what country?
South Africa