Question
This man ordered the destruction of dikes on the Yellow River in 1938 to slow invading Japanese forces. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this leader who, despite the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in that flood, would be forced to relocate his Nationalist Chinese government away from Wuhan just months later.
ANSWER: Chiang Kai-Shek [or Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng]
[10h] During Operation Barbarossa, Stalin ordered the destruction of the Dnipro Dam near this city in order to slow the Nazi invasion. This city also names a series of cars in the USSR that were labeled the "people's car" for their affordability.
ANSWER: Zaporizhzhia [or Aleksandrovsk or Oleksandrivsk; accept Zaporozhets]
[10m] In order to open shipping into Antwerp, dikes in this province were breached by the Allies to dislodge Nazi forces during Operation Infatuate. The 1953 North Sea flood devastated this province, leading to the construction of the Delta Works in it.
ANSWER: Zeeland
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