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41 Questions

Why didn't the Chinese attack Hungnam during the evacuation?

Did Empress Cixi divert funds for the Beiyang Fleet to build the Summer Palace?

Why were the Yellow River dyke repairs delayed?

What were Stilwell's plans had his coup succeeded?

What did Zhang Zuolin say after his train blew up?

What were the American-equipped armies of Nationalist China equipped with?

Why is the heir to the British throne called “Prince of Wales”?

Why is Shandong named Lu?

Was anyone blamed for Japan's defeat at Tai'erzhuang?

What were officers' casualty rates among the major powers of WWII?

When did Wang Mingzhang die?

Why did carrier battle groups require multiple carriers?

What was the National Revolutionary Army's “Training Brigade”?

Was Heisuke Yanagawa really censored out in photos, and why?

Why was the Marian reforms' inclusion of landless masses necessary?

What is the longest retreat?

How many defensive lines did China build for the Second Sino-Japanese War?

How did they manage accuracy with traction trebuchets?

What's the difference between Route Army and Army Group?

Why did Emperor Xian's flight from Chang'an take one year?

Why was Luodian important in the Battle of Shanghai?

Why were Chinese divisions undersized?

Why did Japan take so long to attack Wuhan?

What was the nature of the Japanese cabinet crisis after the Battle of Taierzhuang?

Did Jiang Baili receive a sword from Emperor Meiji for graduating first of his class?

Did Hongwu Emperor flay 5000 women, and why?

When and what was the maximum extent of Nationalist China?

What did Native Americans know, or speculate, about the Old world?

Why were the 8th Route Army better at fighting the Japanese than the Nationalists were?

Did the Trojan Horse actually exist?