World History Events AD 1918 - 1945
| The Catholic rebellion of 1926-1929 that lessened persecution of Catholics by the anti-clerical Mexican government. | Cristeros. |
| What September, 1929 event in America sparked the Great Depression which spread to the whole world? | Stock Market Crash. |
| Motion pictures were silent until this movie in October, 1927, became the first full-length ‘talkie’. | Jazz Singer. |
| What country besides Germany and Italy was a member of the Axis powers in World War II? | Japan. |
| Where was the November 7, 1941 surprise attack that brought America into World War II? | Pearl Harbor. |
What is the name for the June 6 landing/battle of Allied forces in German occupied Normandy?
| D-Day. |
| Where is millions perish, including 6 million Jews, in planned extermination by Nazi Germany? | Concentration camps. |
| What was the cause of Hitler’s initial defeat (which also started Napoleon’s decline in the 19th century)? | Russian Winter. |
| What did the United States use to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force entrenched Japan to surrender in 1945? | Atomic Bomb. |
| What did Winston Churchill call the boundary between communist Eastern Europe and the West? | Iron Curtain. |