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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	German for "lightning war", this word describes Germany's use of tanks and airplanes to make rapid advances in WWII	Blitzkrieg	94%
N	The part of France where troops landed on D-Day	Normandy	93%
O	China lost two wars trying to halt the import of this dangerous drug	Opium	91%
A	City that lost the Peloponnesian War	Athens	90%
J	Country that the Mongols couldn't conquer, thanks in part to typhoons	Japan	90%
C	This city was captured by the Turks in 1453 who used cannons to reduce its once impregnable walls	Constantinople	86%
R	From 390 BC to 410 AD this city was never taken by a foreign enemy	Rome	86%
S	The failure of the Nazis to capture this Russian city is seen as the turning point of WWII	Stalingrad	85%
I	Branch of the army that fights on foot	Infantry	84%
K	Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons to attack this ethnic group in 1988	Kurds	84%
L	A unit of around 5,000 Roman soldiers	Legion	81%
F	Rank equivalent to a five-star general	{Field} Marshal	76%
M	Style of gun that predated the rifle	Musket	76%
E	The plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima	{Enola} Gay	72%
Z	Word that represents the letter Z in the NATO phonetical alphabet. Also, a group of people that fought against the British in South Africa in 1879.	Zulu	72%
U	Small Israeli submachine gun desired by street criminals	Uzi	71%
V	War known to some as the "Resistance War Against America"	{Vietnam} War	70%
G	Term for a Nepali soldier fighting in the British army	Gurkha	58%
T	If a German soldier was a Jerry, then a British soldier was a ...	Tommy	58%
Q	He united China under his leadership, becoming the first emperor. After his death, he was buried with 6,000 terracotta warriors.	{Qin} Shi Huang	56%
D	Unit of about 10,000 to 25,000 troops in a modern army	Division	55%
P	A victory that is so costly that it is like a defeat	{Pyrrhic} Victory	47%
W	Russia's best "general", who defeated both Napoleon and the Nazis	Winter	39%
H	Greek soldier, armed with a shield and spear, that fought in a phalanx formation	Hoplite	38%
Y	The last major battle in the American Revolutionary War	Siege of {Yorktown}	38%
X	This student of Socrates was one of the "Ten Thousand" mercenaries who had to fight their way out of Persia	Xenophon	14%

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