History Quiz

[padisha emperor]

Well, nobody ask a new question, so, to continue the quizz :

Chief of Karl Dönitz in the german Kriegsmarine (so, the Kriegsmarine's leader's name)

 

[USViking]

Well, nobody ask a new question, so, to continue the quizz :

Chief of Karl Dönitz in the german Kriegsmarine (so, the Kriegsmarine's leader's name)

Erich Raeder began WW2 as the German navy's commander.
Donitz later replaced him.

Donitz was selected to succeed Hitler as well, so became
the second and last chief of state of the Third Reich.


Question:
Soviet army commander in Stalingrad during the entire
battle, he would later lead one of the armies which took Berlin.

 

[padisha emperor]

Krouchtchev ?

 

[USViking]

Krouchtchev ?

No, K was a military commissar, not a
regular army officer, and was never in
actual command of troops as far as I know.

I goofed on asking this question- it is
a repeat from several months ago which
I had forgotten.

 

[padisha emperor]

Vassili Tchouikov (google)

Ask a new question if you goofed the precedent one

 

[USViking]

Vassili Tchouikov (google)

Ask a new question if you goofed the precedent one

Chuikov (in English) is correct.

Question:

Soviet WW2 spy in Japan.

He was a German journalist of high repute,
who so ingratiated himself with the German
ambassador that he was able at times to
virtually peruse for documents to photograph.

He learned form a German military attache
of the impending 6/41 attack on the USSR,
but was ignored.

A few months later he learned form the Japanese
that they would not be attacking the Soviet
Far East. This may have convinced the USSR
high command that it could withdraw forces
from the east for the crucial battle for Moscow
in 12/41, when Germany suffered its first major
defeat of the war.

 

[padisha emperor]

I have no idea.

if nobody finds - it seems to be - ask a new question

 

[USViking]

Question:

Soviet WW2 spy in Japan.

He was a German journalist of high repute,
who so ingratiated himself with the German
ambassador that he was able at times to
virtually peruse for documents to photograph.

He learned form a German military attache
of the impending 6/41 attack on the USSR,
but was ignored.

A few months later he learned form the Japanese
that they would not be attacking the Soviet
Far East. This may have convinced the USSR
high command that it could withdraw forces
from the east for the crucial battle for Moscow
in 12/41, when Germany suffered its first major
defeat of the war.

Answer:

Richard Sorge.

His activities were discovered, and he was
arrested in 10/41. The Japanese offered to
exchange him for Japanese being held by
the USSR. The USSR disclaimed all knowledge
of him and his activies, and he was hanged
in 1944.

20 years later the USSR finally did recognize
him, posthumously awarding him the country's
highest decorations, and even issuing a postage
stamp bearing his face and name.

Someone else please ask a question.

 

[padisha emperor]

When were the Church States created (in the middle of Italy, the players of Europa Universalis II localize them well ), and by who (or should it be whom ?) ?

 

[USViking]

When were the Church States created (in the middle of Italy, the players of Europa Universalis II localize them well ), and by who (or should it be whom ?) ?

Per Wikipedia the "Donation of Pippin" in 756.

Ask another.

 

[padisha emperor]

Yes. King of France Pépin le Bref (Pippin the short, father of Charlemagne, son of Charles-Martel - Charles the Hammer - ) gave it to the Pope after the conquest of these territories against the Lombards.

Q : For the Ancients Greeks, which part of Earth was called "EUROPA", and how did they call its inhabitants ( a current denomination) ??

 

[padisha emperor]

Is that Mythology Europa or historical???

Q:Where did the saying "mind your P's and Q's" come from?

The name "Europe" (the continent) came from the myth of the rapt of Europa by Zeus.
But in the Vth C. BC, "Europa" was the name for a part of Earth, and its inhabitants had a "special" denomination. Same thing for the Romans (for them, not really exactly the same place, because their territory was different than the Greek's one, but it was the same idea, the same logic).

So, the question is about this geographical area and the name of its inhabitants for the Greeks and Romans.

 

[padisha emperor]

No, no, larger.

HInt : think to the mentality of the Greeks and Romans about certain peoples...And both didn't consider themselves as Europeans.

 

[USViking]

I view of the French-oriented tenor of many
of your posts here, I am going to guess Gaul.

 

[padisha emperor]

No

The term Europa for the Greeks was for the territories of the North and West (Spain, Gaul, Germany................................), its inhabitants were the Barbarians. Europa was not in the civilisation. The greek world is focused on Greece and Mediterranee sea. So Greece was not in Europe for them.

Rome called Europa the territories out of the Empire, like Germany, here were the Barbarians. So, less barabrians and uncivilized territories than the greeks.

Even with their Empire, from Africa to Scotland, from Spain to Syria, the Romans didn't consider themselves as european, this concept was out. Frot ehm, the wxorld was also focused on Mediterranee sea, their "Mare Nostrum".
Italy and the roman Empire was not European. But more Mediterranean.


It shows the evolution of the concept of Europe and European.




Q : where do the names "Russia" and "Russian" come ? (name and signification of the terrm)

 

[USViking]

Q : where do the names "Russia" and "Russian" come ? (name and signification of the terrm)

Aren't they derived from "Rurik", the same
of a Viking chieftan who founded the state
of Kiev c950?

 

[padisha emperor]

It comes from the Viking, yes, but I read that it was the name given by the local population (in Russia) to the Viking : "Rus".


Ask a new one, please

 

[USViking]

Question:

This major USSR city held out under seige
for over eight months in WW2.

Unfortunately, unlike Leningrad and Stalingrad,
it eventually fell to the Germans.

 

[padisha emperor]

Kharkov ?

 

[USViking]

Kharkov ?

Sorry, no- Kharkov was I think quickly taken
by the Germans in 1941.

It was captured by the USSR in the post-
Stalingrad advance in 1943, recaptured
by a German counteroffensive, and won
for good by the USSR after Kursk.

The city I am thinking of fell after another
notable siege in the 19th century.