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This official investigation concluded in 1964 that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy.

The Warren Commission 

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This Cuban revolutionary led the movement that overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959.

Fidel Castro

100

This revolutionary leader organised the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and was a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution.

Leon Trotsky

100

This man was accused of assassinating JFK but was killed before he could stand trial.

Lee Harvey Oswald

100

This agreement forced Germany to accept responsibility for World War I and imposed significant territorial and financial penalties.

Treaty of Versailles

200

This piece of film evidence, captured by a Dallas dressmaker, became one of the most closely analysed sources in the investigation into JFK's assassination.

The Zapruder Film

200

This Cuban dictator ruled Cuba before being overthrown by Castro's revolutionary forces.

Fulgencio Batista

200

As People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Trotsky represented Bolshevik Russia during negotiations for this treaty.

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

200

This mountain range served as Castro's headquarters during the guerrilla campaign against Batista.

Sierra Maestra

200

This trade network connected China to Europe and helped spread goods, religions and ideas.

Silk Road

300

The Warren Commission concluded that shots were fired from this location overlooking Dealey Plaza.

Texas School Book Depository

300

This failed 1953 attack on a military barracks became a symbolic starting point of the Cuban Revolution.

Attack on the Moncada Barracks

300

This military force, created and organised by Trotsky during the Russian Civil War, was crucial to the survival of the Bolshevik regime.

Red Army

300

This Bolshevik leader worked closely with Trotsky during the October Revolution and later became his greatest rival.

Joseph Stalin

300

This High Court decision recognised native title in Australia and overturned the doctrine of terra nullius.

Mabo Decision

400

This theory argues that a single bullet caused multiple wounds to both President Kennedy and Governor John Connally and remains one of the most debated aspects of the official investigation.

Single Bullet Theory

400

After his imprisonment following the Moncada attack, Castro delivered this famous speech in his defence.

"History Will Absolve Me"

400

Trotsky developed this theory, which argued that Russia could move directly from a bourgeois revolution to a socialist revolution.

Theory of Permanent Revolution

400

This American president established the Warren Commission to investigate JFK's assassination.

Lyndon B. Johnson

400

This event in 1916 is remembered as one of the bloodiest battles in British military history, with approximately 60,000 British casualties on the first day alone.

Battle of the Somme

500

This CIA-backed operation against Cuba is often cited by conspiracy theorists as a possible motive for individuals within the intelligence community to oppose Kennedy.

Bay of Pigs Invasion

500

This concept refers to the military strategy used by Castro's rebels, involving ambushes, mobility and support from local peasants.

Guerrilla warfare

500

Trotsky's theory of Permanent Revolution argued that the Russian working class could seize power with the support of this social group.

Peasants 

500

Many historians argue that Trotsky's greatest contribution to the consolidation of Bolshevik power was his leadership during this conflict between 1918 and 1922.

Russian Civil War

500

This Japanese attack on 7 December 1941 brought the United States into World War II.

Attack on Pearl Harbour