Mixed War History Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1941

They entered the war after Pearl Harbor. This attack was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base on the morning of December 7, 1941.

Answer: Ardennes

The Maginot Line was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defences, which France constructed along its border with Germany.

Answer: 1953

The Korean War, (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953) was a conventional war between South Korea and North Korea. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the Allies at the end of World War II.

Answer: 1919

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the war between Germany and the Allies. It was signed on June 28, 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Answer: M-16

The rifle was deployed for jungle warfare operations in South Vietnam in 1963, becoming the U.S. military's standard rifle of the Vietnam War in 1969, thus replacing the M14 rifle that was used prior to the M-16

Answer: October

For this reason it is known as the October Revolution. The Tsar had abdicated in February 1917 and in April Lenin returned to Russia. (All these months refer to the Julian calendar, which was then in use in Russia). The October Revolution was soon followed by a civil war in Russia that lasted until 1921.

Answer: Russo-Japanese War

The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 - 5 September 1905) is considered the first major war of the 20th century. This war was brought upon because of the rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire in the Far East.

Answer: Communist Party of China (CCP)

The Long March was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army.

Answer: A mass shooting of peaceful protesters in 1905

Bloody Sunday was a massacre on January 22, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed, peaceful demonstrators marching to give a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by the Imperial Guard while approaching the Winter Palace.

Answer: The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

It was a war that began with an assassination and ended with a series of revolutions. The assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, triggered the war. (The actual causes of the war are a different matter and are still controversial).