Historical Blunders

*Armada

Learn to pronounce your R's, limey

Also accept Prearl Hrarbror for Pearl Harbor please, and Hrernrán Crortrés for Hernán Cortés.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War

Appeasement and allowing annexation clearly refer to Czechoslovakia.

So you want QM to change the question because you admittedly knew of only ONE annexation? That's on you, man.

The only thing about the question that could maybe be improved is that Britain did a lot worse than just allowing annexation. They actively negotiated away the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to give to the Reich.

You bought some fancy coleslaw and invaded Russia in the spring time?

One thing I remember from high school history class is that Russia has two generals who will always defeat invaders - General Distance and General Weather.

There's also a CVS where you can get passport photos taken, and a coffee stand and a pastry store. Convenient when making visa runs to the Saudi Arabian embassy right across the street.

Still not corrected...

* Never start a land war in Asia

* Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line ;)

It was at the time it was invaded. Turkey did not exist. But it's generously accepted as a type-in anyway.

True. During WWII the US supplied Ho Chi Minh with arms and guerilla training to help his Viet Minh fight the Japanese, which came back to haunt them when he became an enemy. As communists came closer to taking over, no US president wanted to go down in history as the one who allowed Vietnam to fall to communism and they kept increasing troops and support. Historians say that President Kennedy planned to have all troops out by 1965. After Kennedy's assassination, Johnson took over and felt he had to send in more troops to appease General Westmoreland. Nixon used the war for political gain and prolonged it, but at least he finally ended it. I heard his speech on TV and cried because my husband had a low draft number and would surely have been called up had the war not ended.

They wouldn't have gotten involved (on the side against Ho) in the first place except that deGaulle demanded it, and as France was crucial to Western Europe's resistance against Communism and the Soviets, the US gave up their support for Vietnamese independence. Roosevelt said the year before this, "Indo-China should not go back to France...France has had the country...one hundred years, and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning."

Here in the US, I had never heard of the event or poem until watching a Lindybeige video

You make the disaster sound inevitable - there is no such thing as fate, and seamanship hasn’t changed so much in the last century. The master is always responsible, and reducing speed in poor visibility with dangerous ice known to be around remains good practice to this day…

A blunder is a critical error in judgment or strategy that leads to ruin—not a minor oopsy.

“Forward, the Light Brigade!”

Was there a man dismayed?

Not though the soldier knew

Someone had blundered.

Theirs not to make reply,

Theirs not to reason why,

Theirs but to do and die.

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

Haven't heard about it till today. Interesting that this quiz was chosen.

He did lose his job as first Lord of the Admiralty and faded into relative obscurity for a number of years

Which is what attacking Pearl Harbor meant. Also, the Japanese failed to find or sink any American aircraft carriers during the attack which would later prove decisive at Midway.

? Russia has successfully annexed the largest amount of territory since something like WWII. And arguably at an extremely low cost of life for them. They're successfully fighting against something like 40-50 of the most-developed countries on Earth. They acted; Europe was shown to be meek.

Anyone can argue the financial cost, and set whatever boundaries on that as they wish. Or "reputation" (as though any of the permanent UN SC members care).

In 50 years who will be controlling the territory? Looks like Russia; same country that controls it today.

Morton Thiokol is an American company--where did you get UK? And it was Morthon Thiokol managers who overrode their engineers and called their data "inconclusive", contributing to the blunderous decision to launch. No company or organization is an unheard hero here.

Not sure where you got the impression the UK was involved or that anyone was calling "the US", whatever you mean by that. The course of events leading up to the launch is pretty well-documented.

Same. It's because it's easy to confuse "enter his capital city" with "enter this capital city". Also, most question about locations end with "this country" or similar.