Question
In this year, Allied forces broke through the Hindenburg Line during the Hundred Days Offensive, reversing the gains Germany had made in the spring. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this year in which German defeats led to the armistice that brought an end to World War I.
ANSWER: 1918
[10m] Repeated defeats and one hour of sleep each night caused this German general to suffer nervous breakdowns in 1918. He sidelined his superior von Hindenburg to plan the pyrrhic Spring Offensive.
ANSWER: Erich Ludendorff [or Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff]
[10h] Ludendorff described the first day of this battle as the “black day of the German Army” after 500 tanks broke through German lines. It was the first battle of the Hundred Days Offensive.
ANSWER: Battle of Amiens [or Third Battle of Picardy; prompt on Battle of Picardy]
<Yingzhi Nyang, History - European - 1900+> ~19904~ <Editor: Michael Bentley>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 80% | 0% |
Data
| Hunter A | Belmont | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Thomas Jefferson C | Mira Loma | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| St. Mark's | Winston Churchill A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Troy | Kinkaid | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| University Lab | Plymouth | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |