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Question 1

World War 1 started when this man was assassinated.

Accepted Answer

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Question 2

This was a policy made by President FDR where countries can buy weapons from the US in cash and bring it home themselves

Accepted Answer

Cash and Carry

Question 3

This was the nickname for the decade before the Depression.

Accepted Answer

The Roaring Twenties

Question 4

On Christmas Day in 1914, German and French soldiers stopped fighting to celebrate the holiday with each other.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

This was when Germany killed 6 million Jews during World War 2.

Accepted Answer

The Holocaust

Question 6

He replaced FDR as President after his death. He authorized dropping the atomic bombs on Japan.

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 7

This infection, caused by fungus spreading due to constant exposure to water, often resulted in limbs being amputated.

Accepted Answer

Trench Foot

Question 8

This was when everyone ran to the banks to withdraw their money during the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

Bank Runs

Question 9

This man led a slave revolt in Virginia after seeing a revelation from God.

Accepted Answer

Nat Turner

Question 10

This poisonous gas didn't have an odor, which means you can't smell it.

Accepted Answer

Mustard

Question 11

The Congo Wars were the deadliest conflict since World War 2.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

What role did women NOT have during World War 2?

Accepted Answer

Creating propaganda

Question 13

Adolf Hitler was executed in public and some spectators even cut off part of his face as a souvenir.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

This country in Africa saw 11 coup d'états in 33 years.

Accepted Answer

Nigeria

Question 15

Which country was NOT part of the Arab Spring.

Accepted Answer

Israel

Question 16

During WW1, soldiers who played baseball were given grenades first due to belief that they could throw them farther.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

At the end of the Haitian Revolution, the Haitians killed all the white settlers that refused to leave the island.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Name a country that did NOT have a revolution in 1989.

Accepted Answer

Canada

Question 19

Guernica, a painting by Pablo Picasso, described the civil war in this European country.

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 20

Which President formally ended segregation in the military?

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 21

He was the leader of the British Navy during WW1, and their Prime Minister during WW2.

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 22

He was the President of the United States during World War 1.

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 23

Nanjing, where the Rape of Nanjing occurred during World War 2, is a city in Japan.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

Rats would eat soldiers alive while they slept during WW1.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Antisemitism is hatred towards the LGBT community.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

Along with Marie Antoinette, he was the leader of France during the French Revolution.

Accepted Answer

King Louis XVI

Question 27

Lice caused Trench Fever during World War 1.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

This document imposed punishments on Germany for “starting World War 1”.

Accepted Answer

Treaty of Versailles

Question 29

This was the first country in the Axis Powers to surrender in WW2.

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 30

He was the President of the United States when the Great Depression ended and during most of WW2.

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 31

He was a soldier in World War 1 and later became the leader of the Nazi Party.

Accepted Answer

Adolf Hitler

Question 32

The Winter War started when the Soviets invaded which country?

Accepted Answer

Finland

Question 33

He was a freed slave who led the Haitian Revolution

Accepted Answer

Touissant Louverture

Question 34

World War 2 officially started after Germany invaded this country.

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 35

What happened to families during the Great Depression? (Two correct answers!)

Accepted Answer

Birth rates dropped, Divorce rates increased

Question 36

He was the dictator of the Soviet Union for 31 years, but not before he was in a gulag for stealing from the government.

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

Question 37

This was President Wilson's plan for a worldwide organization that would help maintain world peace.

Accepted Answer

League of Nations

Question 38

The Reign of Terror started during a revolution in this country.

Accepted Answer

France

Question 39

This was when Polish Jews revolted against the Nazis

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Question 40

Which group of Americans were NOT discriminated against during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

White Men

Question 41

This was a group of African-American soldiers who fought in World War 1.

Accepted Answer

Harlem Hellfighters

Question 42

He is the current dictator of Syria, which is dealing with a refugee crisis and a brutal civil war.

Accepted Answer

Bashar al-Assad

Question 43

The only slave revolt in history that led to a nation that wasnt ruled by whites and already abolished slavery was here

Accepted Answer

Haiti

Question 44

This initiative, led by Einstein and Oppenheimer, was when the US did research on atomic bombs.

Accepted Answer

Manhattan Project

Question 45

Operation Barbarossa is the largest land invasion in history.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 46

Where did the Arab Spring happen? (Two correct answers!)

Accepted Answer

Africa, Middle East

Question 47

This is when stocks for a company become more valuable than the company itself.

Accepted Answer

Overspeculation

Question 48

The Italians weren’t able to conquer Greece in World War 2. Or Kenya. Or Sudan.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

This was when mass protests against authoritarian regimes happened in Africa and the Middle East.

Accepted Answer

Arab Spring

Question 50

Allied troops were evacuated by British and French citizens in their fishing boats from this French city.

Accepted Answer

Dunkirk

Question 51

The Zimmerman Telegram leaked that this country was going to help Mexico invade the United States in WW1.

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 52

What was the “Final Solution”?

Accepted Answer

Germany’s idea on how to kill all of the Jews in Europe

Question 53

London, the capital of Great Britain, had to suffer from bombing raids for 4 months by which country?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 54

He was the President of the United States when the Great Depression started.

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 55

This amendment allowed women to vote in the United States.

Accepted Answer

19th

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