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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| USS Maine exploded in the Havana harbor | Spanish-American War |
| Battle of San Juan Hill | Spanish-American War |
| Battle of Yorktown | American War for Independence |
| Battle of Saratoga | American War for Independence |
| Boston Tea Party | American War for Independence |
| Battle of Leipzig | Napoleonic Wars |
| Battle of Trafalgar | Napoleonic Wars |
| Battle of Waterloo | Napoleonic Wars |
| Pearl Harbor | World War II |
| Battle of Coral Sea | World War II |
| Battle of Bulge | World War II |
| Battle of Midway | World War II |
| Bombing of Hiroshima | World War II |
| Bombing of Nagasaki | World War II |
| Battle of Britain | World War II |
| Bataan Death March | World War II |
| trench warfare | World War I |
| Sinking of Lusitania | World War I |
| Zimmermann Note | World War I |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Cold War |
| Fall of Berlin Wall | Cold War |
| Gulf of Tonkin | Vietnam |
| Fall of Saigon | Vietnam |
| shock & awe air strike | Persian Gulf War |
| Operation Airlift | Cold War |
| invasion of Kuwait | Persian Gulf War |
| sailed west in effort to find a route to Far East; discovered New World | Christopher Columbus |
| first European to see the Pacific Ocean | Balboa |
| sent men & ships from Portugual base to explore along African coast | Prince Henry, the navigator |
| discovered the 3 laws of planetary motion | Johannes Keplar |
| placed under house arrest for the heresy of a heliocentric view of the universe | Galileo |
| another term for French Calvinist Protestants | Huguenots |
| First Protestant king of France | Henry IV |
| A fine naturalist, but a poor mathematician | Charles Darwin |
| promised to return to the Philippine Islands to liberate them from Japan | Gen. Douglas MacArthur |
| led the exploration who first circumnavigated the globe | Ferdinand Magellan |
| first American to orbit the earth | John Glenn |
| First man to walk on the moon | Neil Armstrong on July 20, 1969 |
| Supreme Allied Commander of Europe during WWII | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Date of D-Day, invasion of Normany, largest amphibious assault in history | June 6, 1944 |
| The "desert fox" of the African Korps | Gen. Rommel |
| British general who defeated the African Korps in WWII | Lord Montgomery |
| visited the empire of Kubla Khan and the Spice Islands | Marco Polo |
| Viking explorer who landed in present-day Canada in 1000AD | Leif Ericson |
| developed the steel plow | John Deere |
| developed the seed drill | Jethro Tull |
| developed the internal combusion engine | Gottlieb Daimler |
| wrote the famous oratorio, Messiah | Handel |
| author of Paradise Lost | John Milton |
| author of Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| greatest author ever, an Englishman | William Shakespeare |
| wife of Peter III who took over his throne | Catherine, the Great |
| led the takeover of Russia in 1917 in Bolshevik Revolution | Vladimir Lenin |
| introduced Russia to Christianity | Vladimir the Saint |
| the first czar of Russia | Ivan, the Terrible |
| the last czar of Russia | Nicholas II |
| author of the Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| His assassination led to WWI | Archduke Ferdinand |
| Prime Minister of England during WWII | Winston Churchill |
| Chinese Nationalist leader during WWII | Chiang Kai-shek |
| first Prime Minister of Israel (1948) | David Ben-Gurion |
| Arab states response to US for assisting Israel in 1970s | oil embargo |
| Prime Minister of England during 1980s, nicknamed "Iron Lady" | Margaret Thatcher |
| Lighting quick air raids | blitzkrieg |
| An emerging nation who is not on the side of either Communism or freedom during the Cold War | Third World |
| practiced civil disobedience in India as means of freeing India from British rule | Mahatma Ghandi |
| The peace accords resulting from Arabs & Jews sitting at a peace time for the first time | Camp David Peace Accords |
| Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf led American troops to victory during ___ | Operation Desert Storm |
| A movement to unite the world through an economic, political and religious sytem | globalism |
| The invasion of Kuwait was ordered by _______ in 1990. | Saddam Hussein |
| Osama bin Laden led the terrorist group _____ who attacked the World Trade Center in 2001. | Al-Qaeda |
| Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock | 1620 |
| Declaration of Independence signed | July 4, 1776 |
| New World discovered by Columbus in ___ | 1492 |
| Armistice Day (WWI ended) November 11, 1918 | |
| Pearl Harbor bombed by Japanese | Sunday, December 7, 1941 |
| D-Day invasion | June 6, 1944 |
| V-E Day, Victory in Europe Day | May 8, 1945 |
| Middle Ages | 500 - 1500 AD |
| Protestant Reformation | October 31, 1517 |
| Great Depression | 1929 - 1939 |
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