Quotations About War and Politics Quiz

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

"Man and Superman" was published in 1903.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950); James Joyce (1882-1941) and Brendan Behan(1923-1964) all were Dublin-born.

Answer: Richard Milhous Nixon

Quoted in David Frost, "I Gave Them a Sword" (1978) chapter 8.
Richard Nixon (1913-1994) was 37th President of U.S.A. and served in office from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.

Bill Clinton (born in 1946) was the 42nd U.S. President and served from 1993 till 2001.

Answer: Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) on 8 Jan. 1969. Lyndon B. Johnson was the 36th President of the U.S.A. Was in office from 1963 till 1969.
James Earl aka Jimmy Carter (°1924) 39th President of U.S.A.(from 1977-1981). Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002.
Ronald Reagan(born 1911) succeeded to him in 1981 as 40th President. He stayed in office till 1989. Longest-lived President of U.S.A.

Answer: Jorge Luis Borges

Leopoldo Galtieri played a major role in the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands. Margaret Thatcher, British Prime-Minister from 1977-90 was his formidable opponent.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges are important 20th century South-American authors. Borges lived from 1899 till 1986. He was born in Buenos Aires and died in Geneva. Famous as a poet, essayist and short-story writer.
Marquez was born in Colombia in 1928 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Best-known for "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

Answer: Marshall Foch

Foch was born at Tarbes in 1851 and died in Paris in 1929 and was one of the leading French generals in World War One. He was criticised for his obsession with "offensive warfare."
Henri Philippe Petain (1856-1951) was another French general from World War One. As a leader of Vichy France from 1940 till 1944 he was held responsible for France's collaboration with Nazi Germany and condemned to death after the war. General de Gaulle changed his sentence in life-long detention on the Isle of Yeu off the Breton coast.
Georges Clemenceau(1841-1929) became France's Prime Minister in the course of World War One. He played a major role in refusing any leniency to France in the Treaty of Versailles.
Maxime Weygand, a Brussels-born French general (1867-1965), was a French military commander in First and Second World War. He was criticised for his somewhat ambivalent role in the Vichy government.

Answer: Mussolini's Foreign Secretary Count Ciano

"La vittoria trova centi padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l' insuccesso." From Count Galeazzo Ciano's Diary, entry of 9 Sept. 1942.

Answer: Joseph Stalin

Roosevelt (1882-1945) was the 32nd President of U.S.A. Served four terms.
Harry S Truman(1884-1972) was his successor and served from 1945 till 1953.
Stalin (1879-1953) became the 2nd leader of U.S.S.R. after Lenin's death.
Von Ribbentrop(Born in 1893) had been Germany's Foreign Minister from 1938 till 1945. He was sentenced to death by hanging in 1946 at the Nuremberg trials.
So Roosevelt and von Ribbentrop were not involved in the Potsdam Conference.

Answer: Clement Attlee

Answer: George Bernard Shaw

Vladimir Iliych Lenin was born at Simbirsk in Russia in 1870 and died at Gorki in 1924. He became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1918.

Answer: are the fishes

Churchill made this radio-speech on 21st of October 1940. His message was that he felt confident about the superiority of the British Navy to the German "Kriegsmarine." In his view the fishes were already waiting for the corpses of the drowned Germans.
The invasion that the Americans or General de Gaulle may have been waiting for was the Landing in Normandy. And that was 1944.