History Quiz

[Annie]

I ain't a closet anything.

German general who initially devised the strategy for the 1940 French campaign (ie diversion in force on the west flank into Belgium, followed by primary assault with most armor in the center of the front, through the Ardennes region).

Mansteine? (sic?)

 

[freeandfun1]

I ain't a closet anything.

German general who initially devised the strategy for the 1940 French campaign (ie diversion in force on the west flank into Belgium, followed by primary assault with most armor in the center of the front, through the Ardennes region).

Rommel?

 

[USViking]

Mansteine? (sic?)

Add a "Von" to the front, and subtract the last "e" and you got it exactly;
close enough, in any case.

 

[IControlThePast]

I ain't a closet anything.

German general who initially devised the strategy for the 1940 French campaign (ie diversion in force on the west flank into Belgium, followed by primary assault with most armor in the center of the front, through the Ardennes region).

Rundstedt?

 

[USViking]

Rundstedt?

Close- Rundstedt was CIC of the central army group.

 

[USViking]

Manstein planned it and Rommel carried it out!

Rommel commanded the armored division which had perhaps the most distinguished record in the campaign.

 

[freeandfun1]

Rommel commanded the armored division which had perhaps the most distinguished record in the campaign.

Unfortunately for him, he did such a good job they sent him to North Africa!

 

[USViking]

Unfortunately for him, he did such a good job they sent him to North Africa!

Fortunately, he was never given the resourses he needed to win there. Another division or two might have been enough.

 

[Annie]

Add a "Von" to the front, and subtract the last "e" and you got it exactly;
close enough, in any case.

This guy lived in very bad times, (very beginning of Enlightenment) in a bad neighborhood. He must have had wicked dreams, for he wrote about a very scary place based on one of the books of the Bible. His 'scary place' is often used as another name for 'the government.'

I love one of the quotes, but I'll wait for someone to give an answer.

 

[USViking]

This guy lived in very bad times, (very beginning of Enlightenment) in a bad neighborhood. He must have had wicked dreams, for he wrote about a very scary place based on one of the books of the Bible. His 'scary place' is often used as another name for 'the government.'

I love one of the quotes, but I'll wait for someone to give an answer.

Hobbes and Leviathan?

 

[Annie]

Hobbes and Leviathan?

Excellent! Next question...(I am going to have to go to bed shortly, been gone from the 6th graders for over a week and they were to complete a Roman Webquest...)

 

[USViking]

20th century Portugese dictator approximately contemporanious with Franco of Spain.

 

[Annie]

20th century Portugese dictator approximately contemporanious with Franco of Spain.

Hint?

 

[USViking]

Hint?

Only way I can give a hint is some kind of letter or word play; let me think...

Room at (French phrase) Imperial Russian ruler's.

 

[IControlThePast]

Salazar?

 

[USViking]

Salazar?

That's him!

 

[Annie]

Salazar?

That name kept going through my head, then I thought, "No, Spain..." Dumb me!

 

[IControlThePast]

I'm going to bed soon, so I'm pretty sure I'm right regarding your hint so, my question is:

Since we are in the WWII timespan still, who was head of the German A4 program?

Just little notes about the A4. It was feared because, unlike the buzzbomb, it was faster than the speed of sound. You didn't hear it coming and you knew you survived if you heard its sound. Many important people in the A4 program, including this guy, conveniently escaped war crimes prosecution and came and worked for the US.

 

[USViking]

I'm going to bed soon, so I'm pretty sure I'm right regarding your hint so, my question is:

Since we are in the WWII timespan still, who was head of the German A4 program?

Just little notes about the A4. It was feared because, unlike the buzzbomb, it was faster than the speed of sound. You didn't hear it coming and you knew you survived if you heard its sound. Many important people in the A4 program, including this guy, conveniently escaped war crimes prosecution and came and worked for the US.

Von Braun?

 

[IControlThePast]

Von Braun?

Yep.

"I always shoot for the sky, but sometimes I hit London."

Von Braun