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I must have signed out last night before I saw this post. That's too bad because it would have been fun to play. History by trivial pursuit is fun, but it is a grasp of the great sweeps of history, not the minutiae that demonstrates an knowledge and understanding of history. Still, history turns on the small details, like Hitler's obsession with Stalin's namesake city, Heine's political machinations and petty jealousies, and the great man losing his nerve or digging deeper when the crucial hour comes.

Now here's a real question that requires a grasp of history to answer. How long after Pearl Harbor did it take for the US to declare war on Germany, why did it take that long and why did the US declare war on Germany?

Easier question two: what was remarkable about Congress's decision to reauthorize the draft in 1940 and who violated every principle of a representative democracy to ensure that democracy would have the tools to survive?