Pre-Modern
This was the brother of the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal who also crossed the Alps with elephants with less casualties
Who is Hasdrubal?
This was the French client state in Switzerland during the Napoleonic Wars.
What was the Helvetic Republic?
This event directly followed the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and involved Austria-Hungary and Serbia
What was the July Crisis?
Hitler would later use this false flag attack, wherein Polish-speaking Germans in Polish uniforms with Polish weapons attacked a German radio station close to the border with Poland and then sent out a broadcast to the German Poles to start a revolution, to justify his invasion of Poland.
What was the Gleiwitz Incident?
This is used to describe an event wherein the US military somehow loses a nuclear weapon, the first being in February 1950, when a Convair B-36 Peacemaker crashed in British Columbia.
What is a Broken Arrow Incident?
This was the king of Sweden during the Thirty Years' War, often credited as the founder of the Swedish Empire and nicknamed "the Lion From the North"
Who was Gustavus Adolphus?
Often called the Battle of the Nations, this massive battle, fought in October 1813 and involving troops from 12 armies, was the last battle of the War of the Sixth Coalition..
What is the Battle of Leipzig?
Belgian refugees attempted to flee to this country were shot once they got too close by German soldiers.
What is the Netherlands?
This term is often used to describe secret experimental Axis weapons typically from the later parts of World War II, like jet fighters, solar-based weapons, and helicopters
What is Wunderwaffe?
This failed invasion of Cuba by Brigade 2506 was initially meant to be much larger but was scaled down to prevent war with the Soviets
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This battle from the Hundred Years' War is perhaps the best known battle of the Middle Ages
What is the Battle of Agincourt?
This lesser known conflict started when the French occupied Spain and Portugal and was fought between the occupying French and Spanish guerillas backed by Britain.
What was the Peninsular War?
American forces in World War I are best known for partaking in this offensive, the last of the entire war.
What was the Meuse-Argonne Offensive?
This atrocity occurred during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines and the deaths of an estimated 6-18,000 POWs
What was the Bataan Death March?
The Vietnam War was part of this series of conflicts between the native peoples and the French.
What were the Indochina Wars?
This formation, sometimes called "tortoise formation", was used to protect groups of Roman soldiers during sieges
What is testudo?
This member of the House of Wettin was coronated as the only Duke of Warsaw a year after he was coronated as the King of Saxony.
Who was Frederick Augustus I?
This German general was Chief of the Great General Staff between 1916 and 1918 and then President of the Weimar Republic between 1925 and 1934.
Who was Paul von Hindenburg?
This German general invented the infamous Blitzkrieg and wrote a book on it titled Achtung! Panzer!, which was published in 1937.
Who was Heinz Guderian?
This tactical nuclear recoilless gun is the smallest nuclear device ever built and was used by the US military between 1961 and 1971
What was the M-28/M-29 Davy Crockett?
These were citizen-soldiers in Ancient Greece called to serve in times of war.
What are hoplites?
This French general, killed during the Battle of Eylau, was the first leader of the Chasseurs à Cheval of the Imperial Guard, an elite light cavalry regiment that served between 1800 and 1815
Who was Nicholas Dahlmann?
After the end of World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to this city-double points for the country it's in.
Doorn, the Netherlands
This smaller conflict, fought between 1939 and 1940, was a massive embarrassment for the Soviet Union and made Hitler see the Red Army as weak, giving him greater confidence during Operation Barbarossa.
What was the Winter War?
This city in Ukraine is now a ghost town and is featured in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series and the mission All Ghillied Up from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
What is Pripyat?