War
Five real newspaper headlines about war, printed between 1900 and 2003, with their dates removed. Read each one and guess the year it was published. No multiple choice and no trivia questions, just the headline as it was printed.
There are 5 rounds of five in this topic, and a new one appears whenever the archive has enough for it.
Headline one
The Times
1900
The Boxer Rebellion, an anti-foreign uprising backed by the Empress Dowager Cixi, besieged the foreign legations in Peking for 55 days. An eight-nation international military force eventually relieved the legations and suppressed the rebellion. The aftermath forced China to accept the humiliating Boxer Protocol, imposing massive reparations and foreign military presence.
Headline two
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
1941
Imperial Japan launched a surprise military strike on the US Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of 7 December 1941, killing 2,403 Americans and wounding nearly 1,200 more. The attack destroyed or damaged eight US Navy battleships and 300 aircraft. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress the following day, calling it a date which would live in infamy, and the United States entered World War Two.
Headline three
The New York Times
1959
Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country in the early hours of 1 January 1959 as Fidel Castro's rebel forces advanced on Havana. Castro had led a guerrilla campaign from the Sierra Maestra mountains since 1956. The revolutionary government was proclaimed with Castro as Prime Minister, fundamentally reshaping the Cold War balance of power in the Western Hemisphere.
Headline four
The Times
1980
Iraqi forces under President Saddam Hussein launched a full-scale invasion of Iran on 22 September 1980, beginning an eight-year war that would kill up to a million people. Iraq aimed to seize the oil-rich Khuzestan region and topple the Islamic revolutionary government of Ayatollah Khomeini. The war ended in 1988 with no territorial changes but devastating human losses on both sides.
Headline five
The Times
2003
On 20 March 2003, a US-led coalition including British and Australian forces launched a military invasion of Iraq, beginning with a massive aerial bombardment of Baghdad. The invasion was justified by the Bush administration on the grounds that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, a claim that was later found to be unfounded. Saddam Hussein's government fell within weeks, though the conflict and its aftermath would reshape global politics for decades.
Answer the five above to see your score.
Scoring works as it does in the daily game. Each headline is worth up to 100 points, and you lose two points for every year you are out. Being a decade wrong still earns you 80. A perfect round is 500.
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