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Can you quickly recognize during which World War these events happened?
1: The spark that ignited the world conflict started in a small central Balkan city of Sarajevo.
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The assassination of Archduke Frantz Ferdinand of Austria on June 28th 1914 was the spark that led into horrors off the WW I.
2: The Tripartite Pact started a coalition of nations wishing to dominate world.
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September 27th 1940, Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact founding Rome-Berlin-Tokyo "Axis" powers that opposed Allied forces in WW II.
3: First and Second Balkan wars were the prelude to which world war?
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Balkan wars of 1912-1913 were the prelude to a much larger, world encompassing WW I.
4: Air combat was used to defend the English Channel and the South of England in which world war?
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The WW II Battle of Britain was the first battle fought only in the air between July 10th and October 31st 1940.
5: The first win of Central powers occurred more than a year after the war started.
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Serbia and Montenegro successfully defended their borders from Austro-Hungarian attacks in 1914-1915. Germany and their collaborators reversed the battlefield starting in October 1915.
6: The sinking of British ocean liner RMS Lusitania changed the course of which world war?
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Germany's torpedo sank RMS Lusitania off the coast of Ireland on May 7th 1915. That was the turning point after USA entered WW I and the effective naval blockade of Germany.
7: Operation Iceberg was a major battle in the Pacific in which world war?
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Code named Operation Iceberg designates one of the largest battles of WW II in the Pacific for the island of Okinawa between April 1st and June 22nd 1945.
8: Which world war had the Battle of Somme?
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Between June 1st and November 18th 1916, Germans fought French and British troops in trenches at the river Somme in northern France.
9: Fokker D VII was the best airplane fighter of which world war?
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Fokker D VII was so good that Allies requested all fabricated models and production facilities be handed over when they won WW I.
10: Battleship Bismarck was the pride of the German fleet in which world war?
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The Bismarck was the largest battleship built by Nazi Germany in WW II.
11: The Holocaust happened during which world war?
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The Systematic genocide of Jews, the Holocaust, murdered two thirds of the Jewish population in Europe during WW II.
12: The United States Air Force became a separate military branch after which world war?
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Since its conception in 1907, the air force was part of the US Army until well after WW II. The USAF was established as a separate branch on September 18th 1947.
13: The end of which world war marked also the end of four world empires?
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During WWI the Russian Empire collapsed in 1917, Austro-Hungarian and German when the war ended in 1918 and the Ottoman Empire dissolved in 1922.
14: Which of the world wars was also called "The Great War"?
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The First World War was called "The Great War" by its contemporaries because it was the largest land, air and naval conflict to the time that left more than 35 million solders dead or wounded.
15: 85 million people perished in which world war?
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WW II was the deadliest and the most destructive military conflict in the history of humanity. Out of estimated 85 million dead, about 60 million were civilian casualties of war.
