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The Franco-Prussian War
This conflict cost France Alsace-Lorraine, which severely embittered them toward Germany.
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Gavrilo Princip
This man murdered the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which lit the spark that set off WWI.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Americans dropped the first two atomic bombs on what two cities in order to end the war?
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Dachau
What was the first concentration camp established?
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Violet Jessop
This woman served on both the Titanic and Britannic, and survived both disasters.
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The Entente Cordiale
This is the friendship agreement between England and France, signed in 1904, and contributed to the formation of the Triple Entente.
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The sinking of the Lusitania
This disaster, which didn't directly cause America to enter the war, heavily contributed to America's eventual decision to.
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Blitzkrieg
This, meaning 'lightening war', was an innovative military tactic used by Germany in WWII.
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Zyklon B.
This was the gas used by the Nazis in gas chambers for mass murder.
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Second class
What is the only class on the Titanic not to lose any children in the sinking?
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Austria-Hungary
The Compromise of 1867 formed this empire.
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The War Guilt Clause
The Treaty of Versailles had this, along with several other punishments, that required Germany to accept full blame for World War I.
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Scorched Earth Policy
What strategy did Russia employ against the Nazis when the Nazis invaded?
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The Schutzstaffel
This Third Reich organization, starting out guarding the Fuhrer, was heavily responsible for and involved in Nazi concentration camps.
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The RMS Olympic
The HMS Hawke had a non-fatal collision with this ocean liner.
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The Scramble for Africa
This mass colonization caused tensions and rivalries among the Imperial powers, leading to World War I.
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
This treaty marked Russia's surrender to Germany in the First World War.
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The Battle of the Bulge
This was Hitler's last-ditch attempt to turn the war in his favor.
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Maus
This graphic novel by Art Spiegelman was about the Holocaust, depicting the people as animals.
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The sinking of the Titanic
This disaster caused maritime law changes, including that the Marconi telegraph must have someone operating it constantly.
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Belgium
This country is particularly infamous for its maltreatment of the people of the Congo.
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Industrialized warfare
What made World War I different than previous wars fought?
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Operation Overlord
What was the code name for D-Day, or the Allied invasion of Normandy?
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Bergen-Belsen
This was the concentration camp Anne Frank died in, just a few weeks before liberation.
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Morgan Robertson
This man wrote the book Futility, which basically predicted the Titanic disaster.
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