Can you name the countries bombed by the USA after WWII? by thomasbown

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countries bombed by the USA after WWII Quiz

by thomasbown

Created Dec 8, 2009 in History
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	thomasbown:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:52 GMT		6 points
	i wanted the game to only do countries after WWII so i left those out intentionally, though i didnt make that clear, iv edited the instruction. sorry for the mess about

	ajd007:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 21:15 GMT		2 points
	Gives a whole new perspective on US foreign policy, doesnt it?

	amidabutsu:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 22:02 GMT		8 points
	you should accept the current name of the country, i.e. Democratic Republic of the Congo for "Belgian Congo", Bosnia Herzegovina, etc. Maybe also accept just Korea, since the two Koreas did not exist until the Korean war? Otherwise, pretty interesting quiz. It's always good to remind people that the USA are not always the great defender of democracies around the world :)

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	urbanmapper:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 03:08 GMT		21 points
	I'm pretty sure the US is bombing Pakistan, alot.

	Quebecer:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 06:02 GMT		17 points
	In fact, Pakistan should be added, at least as a bonus. It has been reported many times that there has been bombings by american drones in Pakistan, in the Waziristan province, close to the Afghanistan border.

	aeihdahm:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 08:10 GMT		11 points
	i take it this doesnt include accidents because im sure during the kosovo war, the US accidentally bombed Bulgaria.

	Brownepants:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 10:02 GMT		8 points
	You should include the Marshall islands given how much US nuclear testing was done there

	Probus:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 14:49 GMT		5 points
	You might like to clarify that Yugoslavia was actually the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - ie Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo - rather than the Kingdom of "Yugoslavia" established in the aftermath of WW1.

	MattL1216:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 18:02 GMT		12 points
	And Iraq should also be in 2003 due to the Shock And Awe bombing campaign in the Iraq War.

	Gareth:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 01:25 GMT		5 points
	There were actually two koreas before the Korean war, so he is correct to specify North Korea. North Korea was created when the Soviets pushed the Japanese out of the northern end of the peninsula while at the same time American forces arrived in the south.

	joebobs:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 18:42 GMT		8 points
	Pakistan should definitely be on there. A lot of the fighting (and bombing) of the War on Terror has taken place in Pakistan.

	joebobs:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 18:47 GMT		2 points
	An interesting thing this quiz shows is that for the last 20 years the Americas have basically fallen in line behind the US. Some (such as intelligence analyst George Friedman) have said that the US's first policy is to secure North America, then their second aim is to stop any power dominating Eurasia. This reflects that pretty well.

	jimmaloney12:	Dec 10th, 2009 at 19:29 GMT		2 points
	Japan and Germany are not on there because they were not bombed "after WWII." It is easier when you look at the title of the game before complaining.

	typhoidpat:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 18:05 GMT		2 points
	I agree you should accept just Congo or the current names for that area, in addition to Belgian Congo. I've never seen that on other Sporcle quizzes. Does the quiz accept Belgium as well? (Not that I thought of guessing it.) Really interesting stuff! Thanks for adding this. What did our gov't have against Guatemala?!

	shakescene:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 22:40 GMT		4 points
	It would be nice if you were working off some source that would suggest criteria (e.g. USAF or DoD statistics). Otherwise, there are questions about, for example, Colombia, South Korea and Thailand. Plus you'd avoid the danger of this looking as if it's some kind of propaganda.

	SOAR21:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 03:32 GMT		4 points
	@jimmaloney12 read the comments first. The title wasn't always AFTER WW2.

	egroeg:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 23:11 GMT		-3 points
	One could argue that WWII was over when the US bombed Japan.

	TreehuggnCowgirl:	Dec 17th, 2009 at 23:19 GMT		3 points
	Very interesting quiz. I agree that you should accept Serbia for Yugoslavia, because that's how it was commonly known in the US at the time. Only Serbia was still calling itself Yugoslavia in 1999. There's definitely a good argument for including both Colombia and Pakistan on this list. I guess it depends on whether you consider unmanned drones and lighting coca fields on fire from airplanes as "bombing".

	Zephos:	Apr 3rd, 2010 at 23:51 GMT		1 point
	We've been truly awful to most of the Americas south of us for the past fifty years.

	Caz3773:	May 12th, 2010 at 14:56 GMT		4 points
	It might help to be more specific about what you mean by "bombed" - actual aerial bombardment, or just "attacked"? Lebanon was actually shelled by the Navy in 1958 as well, and while we certainly supported terrible state or rebel atrocities in (for example) Latin America, we (meaning the United States military) haven't aerially bombed any of these countries since WWII, though the CIA did use non-Air Force planes to bomb Guatemala during the coup in 1954. Also, unless it was exceptionally covert, we did not bomb Iran in 1998. Clarification would help...

	newenglander:	May 12th, 2010 at 19:11 GMT		4 points
	i wonder how reduced this list would be if texas stayed an independent nation

	formicbean:	May 13th, 2010 at 01:21 GMT		2 points
	Pakistan?

	kennyb:	May 28th, 2010 at 20:51 GMT		7 points
	The US has attacked Yemen with drones in at least 2002, 2009 and 2010.

	herrod54:	Dec 5th, 2010 at 11:02 GMT		2 points
	The U.S. bombed North and South Vietnam, not Vietnam.

	carbon_rod:	Mar 12th, 2011 at 22:12 GMT		2 points
	Allow Congo or Congo-Leopoldville for Belgian Congo, main reason being that it was independent in 1960, so your answer is factually incorrect.

	uristra:	Mar 23rd, 2011 at 10:13 GMT		1 point
	the FBI participated in bombing a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA in 1985.

	madzema:	Apr 19th, 2011 at 07:11 GMT		3 points
	You should add the US's most recent bombing of Libya, even though there were others involved.

	shakescene:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 03:34 GMT		2 points
	Belgian Congo is pure nonsense in 1964, since Belgium left the Congo in June 1960. Congo-Leopoldville or the later names of Congo-Kinshasa (1966), Zaire (1971-97) or the Democratic Republic of the Congo (since 1997) would work and should work. So should just plain old Congo, which is what I tried (even though you don't mean Congo-Brazzaville).

	MSRacer68:	Jun 17th, 2011 at 19:29 GMT		1 point
	Accept DRC or Zaire for Belgian Congo, otherwise nobody will get it.

	Jason_montyfan:	Feb 10th, 2012 at 07:08 GMT		-1 points
	Belgian Congo is the formal name for Democratic Republic of Congo. And your missing one obvious country......... USA. It's been testing on the Nevada range for years.