Question
Answer some questions about the United States’ involvement in China during World War II, for 10 points each.
[10h] This American missionary in China during World War II was described in a Robert Welch biography as the first casualty of the Cold War. Welch named a conspiracy-peddling anti-Communist organization after this man.
ANSWER: John Birch [accept John Birch Society]
[10m] Claire Lee Chennault led the American Volunteer Group, a volunteer air force in China during World War II that is usually referred to by this two-word English nickname.
ANSWER: Flying Tigers
[10e] Jimmy Doolittle’s namesake 1942 Doolittle Raid was intended to land in China after attacking this Japanese capital city.
ANSWER: Tokyo [or Edo]
<History - American History>
Summary
2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
Fordham | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
NYU A | Lehigh | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
University of Delaware A | NYU C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
Rowan | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Swarthmore A | Penn | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Columbia B | Swarthmore B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |