World War I
This is the name of the political figure whose assassination set off World War I
What is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This country was invaded by Germany to set off World War II.
What is Poland?
This is the central conflict of ideas in the Cold War.
What is Capitalism vs. Communism?
Scientists working on this project leaked design plans for nuclear weapons to the Soviets.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This is one likely point of origin for the Spanish Flu.
What is Kansas? (Also, France, China, Britain. Def. not Spain)
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was one member of the central powers in World War I. This is one of the other three members.
What is Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, or Germany?
This night of vandalism and violence agains German Jews is considered the prelude to the holocaust.
What is Kristallnacht?
This is where the USSR was installing missile bases that, when discovered, set off a crisis for the United States.
Where is Cuba?
The US and Soviet Union built huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons in order to create Mutually Assured this.
What is Destruction?
This was the name of the first manmade satellite put into orbit.
What is Sputnik?
This is the ship that the German military sank, killing 125 American civilians and swinging American public opinion toward joining the war.
What is the Lusitania?
This Chinese city was the site of mass murder and rape by Japanese troops in December, 1937.
What is Nanjing?
This is the year that the Berlin Wall fell, and "Wind of Change" came out.
What is 1989?
This is what NATO stands for.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This decade saw a rise in jazz, partying, and dancing the foxtrot.
What is the 1920s?
This is what anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested for during World War I.
What is inciting men to not register for the draft?
These are the two Japanese cities struck by US atomic bombs at the end of World War II.
This is the type of nuclear fuel produced at Hanford in Washington state.
What is plutonium?
This was where the US tested the effects of nuclear weapons on military ships.
Where is Bikini Atoll?
What is Navajo?
These are three countries on the Allied side of Word War I.
What are France, the UK, the US, Russia, Japan, and Italy?
This is what the D in "D-Day" stands for.
What is day?
This is the year that the Soviets tested their first nuclear bomb.
What is 1949?
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, The Battle of the Cowshed is the allegorical equivalent to this conflict.
What is the Russian Civil War?