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Countries by National Trauma #1

Guess the countries who suffered these national traumas.
Every answer is a modern-day country
Quiz by kaderschaufel
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Last updated: August 24, 2021
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Year
Trauma
Country
1898
Loss of Cuba, their last significant colony
Spain
1986
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Ukraine
1985
Operation "Wooden Leg", bombing of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) headquarters
Tunisia
1979
Grand Mosque seizure, which is sometimes considered as the beginning of islamic terrorism
Saudi-Arabia
1940
Defeat against Germany in WWII and establishment of the Vichy government
France
2001
Grounding of their national airline, nicknamed "The Flying Bank"
Switzerland
2005
Scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who claimed to have cloned human embryos, turned out to be a fraud.
South Korea
2014
1:7 defeat against Germany at the FIFA World Cup in their own country
Brazil
1991
Battle of Vukovar
Croatia
2005
First defeat since 1987 in "The Ashes", the most important cricket tournament
Australia
1945
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan
1978
Kidnapping and murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro
Italy
1482
Erection of the Elmina Castle, which later became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade
Ghana
1968
Their army killed 503 unarmed civilians in the My Lai Massacre.
United States
1973
Augusto Pinochet ends democracy with a coup d'état.
Chile
1958
Beginning of the "Great Leap Forward" which caused the deadliest famine in human history.
China
2021
The Taliban regain power over the country.
Afghanistan
JWatson24
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Level 71
Aug 24, 2021
I wouldn't call My Lai a national trauma. It was certainly terrible, but it was covered up for a long time and, while it was shocking, it didn't have much of an impact on America in the long run. Even today, we barely cover it in history classes.

I think better examples of "national traumas" in American history would be Pearl Harbor, Watergate, and 9/11. You could also make an argument for the Vietnam War as a whole, just not My Lai specifically.

Otherwise though, good quiz! Definitely an interesting idea and there are many things on here I haven't heard of so it was a good learning opportunity.

Potatoe1187
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Level 65
Sep 1, 2021
A very intresting idea for a quiz, I would love to see more of these ;)
raneman11
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Level 66
Sep 1, 2021
Can't speak to any of the other countries on here, but I'm American and I had never heard of My Lai. Vietnam is certainly covered in history classes here, but the particular events are kind of summed up as "it was all really ugly and bad, and then the Tet offensive happened and people got tired of it all."
woshiwaiguoren
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Level 70
Sep 2, 2021
The Chilean one is very complicated... Allende had been ignoring the Congress and arrogating power to himself. Pinochet launched a coup but it was a situation where democracy was already breaking down with no easy way out.
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