Wrong Calls, Euphemisms, and Plain Lies #1

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1. 'We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down'. Hitler Keitel Ribbentrop Himmler

2. 'I am not a crook'. Al Capone Richard Nixon Kenneth Lay Spiro Agnew

3. 'Peace for our time'. Edouard Daladier Benito Mussolini Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill

4. 'The______________ will sell us the rope with which we will hang them'. capitalists nationalists communists fascists

5. In the latter half of the 20th century Communist China underwent a number of ideological upheavals which were given uplifting slogans somewhat at odds with their outcome. Which of these came first? The Great Leap Foward Democracy Wall The Cultural Revolution The Hundred Flowers campaign

6. During the settlement of the old west promoters encouraged settlers with the slogan ‘__________ follows the plough’. Cloud The farmer Crops Rain

7. At the beginning of WWII in September 1939 the following statement was made at a meeting of senior Luftwaffe officers: ‘No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr my name is not ________. You can call me Meyer!’ Who? Hitler Kesselring Goering Goebbels

8. What was ‘The China Incident?’ A spy scandal A war A diplomatic crisis A romantic novel

9. In May 2003 President George W Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in front of a large banner which read ‘Mission ______.’ Complete Accomplished Impossible Ongoing

10. In Nazi Germany the sign 'Arbeit macht __________' was a symbol of the horrors of this regime. What was the missing word? free frei frau toil