WWII quizz

lord twiggy1 · Post by **lord twiggy1** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:59 pm

not nesisarilly it could have still happened if whoever took the time machine was a retard and actually gave the nazis more reason to fight and we could be under the rule of nazis

lord twiggy1 · Post by **lord twiggy1** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:02 pm

Post a question smurf

Smurf75 · Post by **Smurf75** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:11 pm

Sorry about the delay. Dont you just hate it when this IRL stuff has to get you away from the computer.

Dunno to much about ww2, but this is an interesting sidenote. Which is the only country who have repaid its war debt from ww1 and ww2?

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:54 pm

Well, not Britain, because they just repaid their WWII debt to America a few months ago - it was in the news and everything. But the WWI debt apparently is still outstanding, and has never been repaid at all.

EDIT: I'll guess Finland, because you're from there. Except was Finland an independent country in WWI?

lord twiggy1 · Post by **lord twiggy1** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:22 pm

Stopper wrote:Except was Finland an independent country in WWI?

i belive it was

Bigfalcon65 · Post by **Bigfalcon65** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:30 pm

lord twiggy1 wrote:
Stopper wrote:Except was Finland an independent country in WWI?
i belive it was

Finland didnt battle in either world wars did they?

Bigfalcon65 · Post by **Bigfalcon65** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:32 pm

i will guess Germany.

flashleg8 · Post by **flashleg8** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:46 pm

Bigfalcon65 wrote:
lord twiggy1 wrote:
Stopper wrote:Except was Finland an independent country in WWI?
i belive it was
Finland didnt battle in either world wars did they?

Finland fought an excellent campaign against the might of the soviet union, they ultimately were defeated but caused massive casualties (and humiliation) to the Red army. I believe the sanction for this action was part of the pact Germany made with the USSR over the partition of Poland.

Smurf75 · Post by **Smurf75** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:41 am

Stopper wrote:Well, not Britain, because they just repaid their WWII debt to America a few months ago - it was in the news and everything. But the WWI debt apparently is still outstanding, and has never been repaid at all.

EDIT: I'll guess Finland, because you're from there. Except was Finland an independent country in WWI?

Yup Finland it was. And Finland became an independent country in 1917, just in time to start paying

Hitman079 · Post by **Hitman079** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:49 am

if maybe the Weimar Republic had been using better policies the Nazi Party would still have existed, but it wouldn't have come to power so quickly..or maybe not at all.

spurgistan · Post by **spurgistan** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:38 am

The Weimar Republic was not terribly ill-conceived (although the sheer number of parties did make coalition governance difficult), it was more the devestated economy from WW1 and Versailles (and a global depression, on top of that) that really did it in.

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:26 am

Smurf75 wrote:Yup Finland it was. And Finland became an independent country in 1917, just in time to start paying

Gerrinthere! Oh, and I checked up on Finland after I typed that. I knew they separated from Russia at some point, I just wasn't sure if it was during or long after the Russian Revolution. Finland has a really interesting post-WWI history.

Anyway, here's another. I think this may come as a surprise to some, but maybe not:

Which South American country had a 25,000-strong force fighting on the Allied side in the Italian campaign?

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:29 am

Paraguay?

Random guess.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:43 am

peru?

Guidocks · Post by **Guidocks** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:52 am

brazil?

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:55 am

Guidocks wrote:brazil?

You win.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:56 am

wow, we missed the odvious one!

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:57 am

I was gonna say that..

But you said we'd be surprised =(

So I went for a small country.

Guidocks · Post by **Guidocks** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:01 am

Stopper wrote:
Guidocks wrote:brazil?
You win.

i just had a bit of a stab in the dark.

Anyway, name the two countries that joined in 1942 for the axis.

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:01 am

Skittles! wrote:I was gonna say that..

But you said we'd be surprised =(

So I went for a small country.

I qualified my surprise remark with a "maybe not", because I like to cover my arse that way.

Anyway, I think a lot of people believe that South America was more or less neutral in WWII. I know I was surprised to find Brazil ever had any troops in Europe when I read about it a few years ago - though I only found out it was 25,000 troops when I looked it up today. The book where I'd originally read about it said it was more like 300.

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:03 am

Guidocks wrote:
Stopper wrote:
Guidocks wrote:brazil?
You win.
i just had a bit of a stab in the dark.

Anyway, name the two countries that joined in 1942 for the axis.

Umm..... Umm... Ummm... It's probably really obvious. But I'm wondering if it's in the Pacific or in Europe..

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:03 am

japan and north vietnam?

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:04 am

spinwizard wrote:japan and germany?

Germany was 1939, Japan was before 1939.

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:04 am

Guidocks wrote:
Anyway, name the two countries that joined in 1942 for the axis.

My stab in the dark, without Googling - I'm guessing it'll be two countries bordering (or nearly bordering) the USSR in Europe, which Germany would have forced in because they were desperate for troops.

Romania and Hungary?

Guidocks · Post by **Guidocks** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:04 am

Skittles! wrote:
spinwizard wrote:japan and germany?
Germany was 1939, Japan was before 1939.

Yeah what he said.