War Dates
This year marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
What is 1775?
This movie, released in 2023, follows the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
What is Oppenheimer?
This wall dividing a German city was built in 1961 and fell in 1989, symbolizing the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This board game challenges players to conquer the world through territorial battles, using dice and armies.
What is Risk?
This king ruled England during the American Revolution and lost the colonies after the American victory in 1783.
Who is King George III?
World War I began in this year, sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is 1914?
Tom Hanks leads a squad searching for a missing soldier in this 1998 WWII film.
What is Saving Private Ryan?
This event marked the entry of the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This military-themed video game franchise, first released in 2003, includes titles like "Modern Warfare" and "Black Ops."
Who is Henry VIII?
The U.S. Civil War began in April of this year with the attack on Fort Sumter.
What is 1861?
This 1993 Steven Spielberg film, shot largely in black and white, follows a German businessman who saved over a thousand Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.
What is Schindler's List?
This 1815 battle marked Napoleon's final defeat.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This satirical Vonnegut novel, inspired by his experience surviving the Dresden bombing, follows Billy Pilgrim who becomes "unstuck in time."
What is Slaughterhouse-Five?
This French king was executed by guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
The Treaty of Versailles was signed in this year, officially ending World War I.
What is 1919?
This 1979 Vietnam War film features the line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
What is Apocalypse Now?
This 1763 treaty ended the French and Indian War, forcing France to cede most of its North American territory to Britain.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This toy franchise features small plastic figures that have been a staple of military-themed play since 1964.
What is G.I. Joe?
This Confederate general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865, effectively ending the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The Defenestration of Prague triggered the Thirty Years' War in this year when two imperial governors and their secretary were thrown out of a window by Protestant Bohemians.
What is 1618?
This 1957 Stanley Kubrick film, starring Kirk Douglas, critiques French military justice during WWI trench warfare.
What is Paths of Glory?
This East African nation successfully repelled an Italian invasion at the 1896 Battle of Adwa, remaining one of the few African nations never colonized.
What is Ethiopia?
This musical, based loosely on Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," is set during the Vietnam War and follows a doomed romance between a Vietnamese woman and an American soldier.
What is Miss Saigon?
This Soviet premier ordered the placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962, leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis with President Kennedy during the Cold War.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?