The book is named (translated) How the Germans bravely held their ground in Vietnam.
Its a small book written in a humoristic style , it describes a lot of errors, humoristic and tragic made by students history throughout the Netherlands.
Question:After the second world war tensions rose between the US and the USSR.
Name two events that occurred in the period 1945 and 1950 which Stalin could have explained as US agression.
Answer: Attack on Iraq/ Attack on Pearl Harbor
Question: Write down the 4 most important allied countries during the war
Answer: Japan, Indonesia, China, US
Answer:France, Belgium, Luxemburg(!) and UK
Question:Describe two aspects typical for the cold war.
Answer: many deads, hunger.
In this case the poor student mixed two facts, the cold war between NATO and Warschaupact and the hungerwinter period in holland in 1944.
Question:Give two reasons for the Germans to start world war 2.
Answer:a)Hitler, opinions
b) The Germans wanted to hit Versailles with a dagger.
Question:Give two examples that describe why the Roman empire collapsed?
Answer:The citizins started a revolt and therefore the communist system collapsed.
Question:What role did The Netherlands play in the events that lead to the first world war?
Answer:The Netherlands wanted to stay neutral, The US as well because the Dutch had a colony in New York
Question:Describe in short what Stalingrad and D-day meant for the duration of the war?
Answer:Stalingrad is a city with a king named Staling.
On D-day the Germans lost in Stalingrad and many people were liberated
Question:What had Pearl Harbor to do with the annexation of Dutch territories by the Japanese army in 1942?
Answer:He commited attacks....
Question: What date were the Netherlands liberated in world war 2?
Answer:a)10 may 1940 by Denmark.
b) in 1945 by the Japanese and the US, they came with a boat and started fighting with the Germans.
Than the Germans fought on in the US
Question:Why did kaiser Wilhelm fled to the Netherlands after the great war?
Answer:He wanted to take over the country.
Question:What was typical for the vietnam conflict during the cold war era?
Answer:In Vietnam nobody used real weapons
Question:What influence had tv reporting on the Vietnam war?
Answer:Vietnam knew the presence of the Germans because of the tv, they knew where the Germans would attack and could prepare better.
Question:What arguments did the US government use to defend the war in Vietnam?
Answer:The south may not become national-socialists
Question:What was the main tactic or defense strategy of the Dutch army against a German attack in 1940?
Describe why this tactics did not work.
Answer:Soldiers riding on bikes.
The enemy stole their bikes and used them to overun the country themselves.
