History Fact Finder

European Conflicts

1. What was Bloody Sunday? [answer]
2. Who was Rasputin? [answer]
3. What was the Bolshevik Revolution? [answer]
4. What was the Red Terror? [answer]
5. What was the Spanish Civil War about? [answer]
6. Who was Generalissimo Francisco Franco? [answer]
7. What was the fighting in Bosnia about? [answer]
8. What was the origin of the term "genocide"? [answer]
9. What is the fighting in Kosovo about? [answer]
10. What is the "Irish Question"? [answer]

American Conflicts

1. What does "¡Viva Zapata!" mean? [answer]
2. Who was Che Guevara? [answer]
3. Why did the U.S. government send troops in pursuit of Pancho Villa? [answer]

Asian And African Conflicts

1. What was the Russo-Japanese War? [answer]
2. What was the Long March? [answer]
3. What was the Boxer Rebellion? [answer]
4. What was the Second Sino-Japanese War? [answer]
5. Who were the Khmer Rouge? [answer]
6. What were the killing fields? [answer]
7. Why was the United States involved in the Korean War? [answer]
8. Why was the Vietnam War fought? [answer]
9. Why did many Americans protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War? [answer]
10. What was the issue in the conflict in Rwanda? [answer]

Worldwide Conflicts

1. How did World War I begin? [answer]
2. What alliances were formed during World War I? [answer]
3. How did the United States become involved in World War I? [answer]
4. How did World War I end? [answer]
5. What did the Lusitania have to do with World War I? [answer]
6. Who were the Big Four? [answer]
7. How were European boundaries redrawn as the result of World War I? [answer]
8. How did the Treaty of Versailles lead to World War II? [answer]
9. What was Nazism? [answer]
10. How did World War II begin? [answer]
11. What countries were called the Allies in World War II? [answer]
12. What was the Atlantic Charter? [answer]
13. What happened at Pearl Harbor? [answer]
14. What is D day? [answer]
15. Why was the invasion of Normandy a decisive battle? [answer]
16. What was the Battle of the Bulge? [answer]
17. What are V-E Day and V-J Day? [answer]
18. Were any countries besides Switzerland neutral during World War II? [answer]
19. How did Anne Frank's diaries survive World War II? [answer]
20. What was the Berlin airlift? [answer]
21. What is NATO? [answer]
22. What was the Warsaw Pact? [answer]
23. What was the arms race? [answer]
24. What was the Bay of Pigs? [answer]
25. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? [answer]
26. What happened in Grenada? [answer]

Eastern Conflicts

1. When was Israel formed? [answer]
2. What is the basis of the conflict over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank? [answer]
3. What were the Camp David accords? [answer]
4. What is the Wye accord? [answer]
5. What did U.S. President George Bush mean when he said the United States had to "draw a line in the sand"? [answer]
6. Why was the Persian Gulf War important? [answer]