WWII quizz

flashleg8 · Post by **flashleg8** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:30 am

Nope.
It was a really incendiary act that inflamed the nation.

Skittles! · Post by **Skittles!** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:32 am

No idea.

spinwizard · Post by **spinwizard** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:00 am

stole hitlers girlfriend???

RobinJ · Post by **RobinJ** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:57 am

flashleg8 wrote:Okay, since there’s no more questions posted, I'll jump in.
It's a wee bit pre-war, but still...

What did Marinus van der Lubbe do (or supposedly do ) in Germany 1933 that lead to the banning of the German Communist Party?

No google or Wiki please.

Burnt down the lower house - the Reichstag one week before the elections (which the Nazis then had a landslide victory in - suspicious or what? - the Nazi bastards probably did it themselves

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Titanic · Post by **Titanic** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:47 am

Set the Reichstag on fire. I think that was 1933, and it matches the clue of blaming the communists and making the Nazis popular.

Bigfalcon65 · Post by **Bigfalcon65** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:11 am

I havnt got one yet, but ill ask a question anyway. Can anyone tell me why D-day was a sucsess?

alex_white101 · Post by **alex_white101** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:14 am

shut the hell up you havent got one and nobody likes you.

Bigfalcon65 · Post by **Bigfalcon65** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:35 am

alex_white101 wrote:shut the hell up you havent got one and nobody likes you.

Hey alex hows your model carrer goin?

Bigfalcon65 · Post by **Bigfalcon65** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:38 am

Everyone alex is a model, heres his line of 3M

Titanic · Post by **Titanic** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:48 am

Bigfalcon65 wrote:I havnt got one yet, but ill ask a question anyway. Can anyone tell me why D-day was a sucsess?

There about 20 major reasons at least. Hitler split the Panzer divisions up, the allies tricked the Nazis into where they were going to land, they invaded under cover of darkness, they captured the vital bridges very quickly, the floating harbours provided huge amounts of artillery and resources very quickly, they had more soldiers, they flew a sorty of around 200 planes in support, the French resistance helped keep some troops away from teh front line etc, etc...

lord twiggy1 · Post by **lord twiggy1** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:07 pm

you forgot the main reason though...the american and british paratroopers that landed at about 0100 before the land assult. they compleated all their objectives before noon and theysurprised the germans by using their own taktics agsinst them(the geremans had paratroopers also)

flashleg8 · Post by **flashleg8** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:20 pm

RobinJ wrote:
flashleg8 wrote:Okay, since there’s no more questions posted, I'll jump in.
It's a wee bit pre-war, but still...

What did Marinus van der Lubbe do (or supposedly do ) in Germany 1933 that lead to the banning of the German Communist Party?

No google or Wiki please.
Burnt down the lower house - the Reichstag one week before the elections (which the Nazis then had a landslide victory in - suspicious or what? - the Nazi bastards probably did it themselves )

Correct! (along with Titanic).
I agree the Nazis probably were behind it.

RobinJ · Post by **RobinJ** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:57 pm

Right then, my turn:

Which 2 conferences took place betwen the ally leaders in 1945?

Stopper · Post by **Stopper** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:18 pm

Potsdam and Yalta? I hope this is right and I haven't made a stupid mistake or anything. They just popped into my head.

spurgistan · Post by **spurgistan** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:19 pm

damn. was right behind ya, stopper.

lord twiggy1 · Post by **lord twiggy1** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:19 pm

ya im pretty sure your right and didnt make a stupid mistake

spurgistan · Post by **spurgistan** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:23 pm

Yeah, twas Potsdam and Yalta.

Hitman079 · Post by **Hitman079** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:06 pm

spurgistan wrote: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.

they could have done without their policy of proportional representation though

genius6 · Post by **genius6** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:23 pm

Wow, this thread is still going? Amazing. Spam.

RobinJ · Post by **RobinJ** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:10 pm

Stopper wrote:Potsdam and Yalta? I hope this is right and I haven't made a stupid mistake or anything. They just popped into my head.

Well, for anyone who still cares, you are right - I was too lazy to think of a truly difficult question.

lord twiggy1 · Post by **lord twiggy1** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:32 pm

allright since stopper hasent posted his question yet ill post one

What was the turning point in the war in europe?

duday53 · Post by **duday53** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:57 pm

the first defeat of the german army during the russian winetr...germany was put on the defensive. i think it was the time the germans tried to invade Stalingrad or advance to Moscow or something.

Numia Kereru · Post by **Numia Kereru** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:58 pm

The battles in Russia? Hitler bit off far more than he could chew when he double-crossed the Russians and they turned their forces against him.

No German army was ever going to survive a war against acclimatised Russian soldiers on freezing Russian turf.

edit: damn, fastposted

Incandenza · Post by **Incandenza** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:04 pm

lord twiggy1 wrote:allright since stopper hasent posted his question yet ill post one

What was the turning point in the war in europe?

I believe the technical answer to that was Hitler's refusal to allow Paulus to evacuate the Sixth Army from Stalingrad.

Numia Kereru · Post by **Numia Kereru** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:04 pm

I think it's your go, duday