Term 3

Question 1

June 28, 1914

Answer 1

Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzigovina, Austrian-Hungarian Empire

Question 2

July 1914

Answer 2

July diplomatic crisis; blank check, ultimatum, Russian mobilization, Schlieffen Plan, Belgian neutrality

Question 3

August 1914

Answer 3

WWI begins

Question 4

1917

Answer 4

American enters war

Question 5

1915

Answer 5

Italy and Ottomans enter the fray

Question 6

November 11, 1918

Answer 6

armistice is signed ended the fighting on the Western Front

Question 7

1919

Answer 7

Versailles Peace Conference

Question 8

1905

Answer 8

“Bloody Sunday”

Question 9

February 1917

Answer 9

Czar is overthrown and replaced by a provisional government

Question 10

1917—1921

Answer 10

Civil War between the Reds and Whites in Russia

Question 11

11:00 11/11/1918

Answer 11

the armistice ending hostilities is signed in a train car

Question 12

1922-1928

Answer 12

The New Economic Policy was launched by Lenin

Question 13

1924

Answer 13

Lenin dies

Question 14

1928

Answer 14

First 5 Year Plan for heavy industry was launched by Stalin in the USSR

Question 15

1929-1930

Answer 15

Great Depression hits Europe

Question 16

1935

Answer 16

Mussolini ordered the invasion of Ethiopia

Question 16

1933

Answer 16

Hitler is appointed Chancellor by the aging Hindenburg in Germany

Question 17

1936-39

Answer 17

Spanish Civil War

Question 17

1936

Answer 17

Leon Blum, a socialist, leads the Popular Front in France

Question 18

March 1938

Answer 18

Anschluss German occupied Austria

Question 19

September of 1938

Answer 19

Munich Conference

Question 20

November 9, 1938

Answer 20

Kristallnacht

Question 21

August of 1939

Answer 21

Nazi/Soviet Pact

Question 22

November 9

Answer 22

Destiny Day

Question 23

Sept. 1, 1939

Answer 23

WWII begins

Question 24

1942

Answer 24

The “Final Solution” of the Jewish Question Gross Wannsee conference

Question 25

1940

Answer 25

Norway, Holland, Belgium, and even France are crushed

Question 26

June 22, 1941

Answer 26

“Operation Barbarossa”

Question 27

Dec. 7, 1941

Answer 27

Pearl Harbor

Question 28

June 6, 1944

Answer 28

D-Day

Question 29

May 8, 1945

Answer 29

V-E Day

Question 30

1947

Answer 30

Truman Doctrine

Question 31

1947-48

Answer 31

Marshall Plan

Question 31

1946

Answer 31

“Iron Curtain” speech.

Question 32

1948

Answer 32

Berlin Airlift

Question 33

1947

Answer 33

India gained independence from Britain

Question 34

1956

Answer 34

Khrushchev makes his six-hour long “secret speech”

Question 35

1956

Answer 35

Imre Nagy leads a movement in Hungary to become more independent from Moscow

Question 35

1957

Answer 35

Treaty of Rome

Question 36

1958

Answer 36

The Algerian Crisis

Question 37

1962

Answer 37

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 38

1961

Answer 38

Berlin Wall is erected

Question 39

1968

Answer 39

“Prague Spring” is crushed

Question 40

1979

Answer 40

The Soviet invaded Afghanistan

Question 41

1979

Answer 41

Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime Minister of Britain

Question 42

1979

Answer 42

Solidarity Movement under Lech Walesa is launched

Question 43

1985

Answer 43

Gorbachev is elected premier of the Soviet Union

Question 44

1988-89

Answer 44

The Velvet Revolutions

Question 45

1991

Answer 45

Fall of the Soviet Union

Question 45

1994-95

Answer 45

Ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia

Question 46

1990

Answer 46

Germany reunified

Question 47

1990’s

Answer 47

Eastern European states struggle to convert to free market capitalism and democracy

Question 48

September 11, 2001

Answer 48

terrorists combined with weapons of mass destruction become the new scourge of the twenty-first century.

Question 49

2008-2009

Answer 49

Great Recession

Question 50

2009-2024

Answer 50

rise of right wing populist authoritarianism who oppose immigration, globalization, and want a return to “traditional values”