Dates To Know

Question 1

1922

Answer 1

Mussolini gains power in Italy

Question 2

1929

Answer 2

Wall Street crash starts Great Depression

Question 3

1943

Answer 3

Russians defeat Germans at Stalingrad and Kursk

Germans in North Africa surrender

Allies invade Italy

Question 4

1933

Answer 4

Reichstag fire and enabling act allow hitler to become chancellor

Question 5

1936

Answer 5

Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland and violates ToV

Question 6

1918

Answer 6

Germany surrenders

Question 7

1936-1939

Answer 7

Spanish civil war and Franco becomes leader

Question 8

1938

Answer 8

Germany takes Austria

Question 9

1961

Answer 9

Berlin Wall is built

Question 10

1939

Answer 10

Germany takes Poland->GB and F declare war on G and R invades Finland

Question 11

1917

Answer 11

USA joins WWI

Question 12

1941

Answer 12

Germany invaded Russia

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Question 13

1914

Answer 13

WWI begins

Question 14

1953

Answer 14

Stalin dies

Question 15

1928

Answer 15

Stalin consolidated power in Russia

Question 17

1945

Answer 17

Germany and Japan surrender

Question 18

1940

Answer 18

Germany conquers Norway, Holland, Belgium and France

Winston Churchill becomes prime minister

Question 19

1947-1948

Answer 19

Communists gain power in Eastern Europe

Question 20

1911

Answer 20

Revolution in China

Question 20

1949

Answer 20

Communists gain power in China

Question 21

1944

Answer 21

Allies invade France

Question 23

1961-1973

Answer 23

USA involved in Vietnam War

Question 24

1950

Answer 24

China invaded Tibet

Question 24

1950-1953

Answer 24

Korean War

Question 25

1963

Answer 25

JFK assassinated

Question 26

1942

Answer 26

USA defeats Japan at Midway

Question 27

1947

Answer 27

India becomes independent

Question 28

1962

Answer 28

Cuban missile crisis