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Multiple choice general knowledge history

Italians at the start of the 2nd world war in 1940 invaded Albania in Greece to found the "New Roman" empire, why was this a mistake?

  1. Greek Scientists were so angry they helped allies discover the power of the Atom bomb

  2. Italian troops were taken from the Mediterranean leaving the beaches of Normandy open to invasion

  3. German troops used to support the Italians were taken away from other critical places

  4. Albania was never invaded
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Blaming the Jewish community for the bad condition of Germany Adolph Hitler instigates a round up of all Jewish people and their subsequent executions in concentration and labour camps, why was this a mistake?

  1. It turned the world against Germany and alienated many important people

  2. It created a division in German causing it to split into East and West Germany

  3. It meant the loss of Tribute from Jerusalem

  4. The destruction of the Jewish community had no effect whatsoever on the war
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German engineer and scientist Herschel Porsche presented a light battle tank to Adolph Hitler in 1943, Hitler decides to ignore the tank (later christened the Hertzer)and approves production of the heavier Tiger tanks, why was this a mistake?

  1. It was not a mistake as the heavy Tiger tank was a force to reckon with

  2. It had a bad effect on morale

  3. It led to Professor Porsche’s suicide

  4. It was a waste of raw materials
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After Operation Valkerie and ten other such operations to assassinate him Adolph Hitler was so infuriated with the Generals and commanders involved he ordered many of them to be executed by hanging by a Piano wire (death was slow and took almost thirty minutes and was very painful) why was this a mistake?

  1. It lowered morale

  2. It made the allies ridicule him

  3. He killed off his best commanders this way

  4. It was no mistake, traitors should be executed
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In 1944 German troops surrounded and trapped a full regiment of American Soldiers in the Ardennes forest (Called the battle of the bulge). During the initial fighting the German SS divisions executed their prisoners, why was this a mistake?

  1. It intensified resistance as the Americans thought they were going to be executed anyway

  2. It had no efefct on teh battle and the war thereafter

  3. It led to the Marathon race being formed in honor of the incident

  4. It caused confusion in the German lines
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After the capture of South east Asia from European colonies and the Battle of teh Coral Sea Japan decides to attack the island of Midway in preperation to the invaion of Australia, was this a mistake?

  1. It was not a mistake Midway could have been fortified at a later date by the Allies

  2. Beyond being a fuel depot Midway had no major importance and hence should have been left alone

  3. It led to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aith Atom Bombs

  4. It led to the discovery of Radium
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