Mystery of History 4 Semester 2 Flashcards
(48 cards)
Man walks on the Moon
July 20, 1969
The collapse of the Soviet Union
December 26,1991
World War I
1914-1918
Formation of Isreal
May 14, 1948
The Great Depression
1929
World War II
Sept 3, 1939 - Sept 2, 1945
Who was the pilot of the first successful motorized flight? and what was the date?
Orville Wright
December 17, 1903
Who invented the braille system for the blind?
Louis Braille
Who wrote papers about the light, atoms and relativity and got his doctorate at age 26?
Albert Einstein
What Norwegian and his crew reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911?
Roald Amundsen
What country introduced poison gas in during World War I?
Germany
What country agreed to the armistice on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918?
Germany
Who formed the USSR in 1922, which grew from 4 to 15 republics?
Vladimir Lenin
Both the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil war lasted how many years?
Two years
Who marched on Rome Italy in 1922 and usurped Victor Emmanuel III in the “bloodless revolution”?
Benito Mussolini
Who died of a supposed brain hemorrhage before the Korean war ended?
Joseph Stalin
Who promised a “New Deal” for Americans in 1932?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
After the famous salt march, who organized the Quit India movement to free India from British rule?
Mohandas Gandhi
What country had the Weimar Republic, to give the people a constitution, a president and a two house parliament?
Germany
What secret society was founded in 1918 for the preservation of the Aryan race?
Who was the founder of the German worker’s Party
Thule Society
Anton Drexler
Who helped to found the confessing church, which did not align with the Nazi party?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What war ended when Francisco Franco was victorious over the left-wing Republican leaders?
the Spanish Civil War
Name the Axis Powers at the start of World War II
Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union
Who violated the Nazi/Soviet Pact by launching Operation Barbarossa and invading the USSR?
Adolf Hitler
