Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
90s Trivia: How many Americans suffered battle-related deaths during the first Gulf War?
The 90s, unlike the 00s, were punctuated with numerous successful American military conflicts. Most remembered of those was the closest thing we had to a full-scale war during the 90s: the First Gulf War, otherwise known as Operation Desert Storm. During the conflict, the United States and other allies invaded Iraq to beat back an Iraqi invasion of neighboring Kuwait. The conflict was an unprecedented military success for the United States, with an extremely low number of American battle-related military deaths. So, off of Pocket Trivia: 90s Trivia - How many Americans suffered battle-related deaths during the first Gulf War? Was it 148, 390, 1212 or 4,539?
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Which of these countries has the United States never declared war on?
Ahh, foreign policy. War, trade, tariffs, sanction, mental evaluations of foreign leaders health...wait, what? Let's just move on. We don't deal with foreign policy much in either of our games, but this is one of those questions that does, and it's on a big subject: war. So, from our Pocket Trivia: US History game: Which of these countries has the United States never declared war on? Britain, France, Spain or Hungary?
This one isn't too hard if you know your foreign history.
The U.S. declared war on Britain in 1812 during the appropriately named War of 1812. I didn't count the revolutionary war since that wasn't necessarily the "United States" declaring war (at least as the United States exists today), but the War of 1812 was the first time that the United States ever actually declared war.
The U.S. declared war on Spain in 1898 during the Spanish-American war. The war lasted a mere four months and saw the U.S. bushwhacking the Spanish and annexing Puerto Rico, the Philippians and Guam.
The U.S. declared war on Hungary during World War II. The U.S. actually made three separate declarations of war during World War II - on December 8, 1941, the U.S. declared war on Japan, then followed up three days later by declaring war on Nazi Germany. A third and final declaration of war was issued on June 5, 1942, against Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. That is the last time that the U.S. has declared war on anyone.
That leaves France - yes, despite the advent of Freedom Fries, the U.S. has never declared war on France - in fact, were it not for their assistance during the Revolutionary War, the U.S. may not be a country to this day.
This one isn't too hard if you know your foreign history.
The U.S. declared war on Britain in 1812 during the appropriately named War of 1812. I didn't count the revolutionary war since that wasn't necessarily the "United States" declaring war (at least as the United States exists today), but the War of 1812 was the first time that the United States ever actually declared war.
The U.S. declared war on Spain in 1898 during the Spanish-American war. The war lasted a mere four months and saw the U.S. bushwhacking the Spanish and annexing Puerto Rico, the Philippians and Guam.
The U.S. declared war on Hungary during World War II. The U.S. actually made three separate declarations of war during World War II - on December 8, 1941, the U.S. declared war on Japan, then followed up three days later by declaring war on Nazi Germany. A third and final declaration of war was issued on June 5, 1942, against Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. That is the last time that the U.S. has declared war on anyone.
That leaves France - yes, despite the advent of Freedom Fries, the U.S. has never declared war on France - in fact, were it not for their assistance during the Revolutionary War, the U.S. may not be a country to this day.
Above: An Undeclared War?
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