HistoryNet Polls Archive
Which of these is the most impressive performance by a smaller air force against a larger one?
- Britain vs. Germany, 1940 (30.0%, 266 Votes)
- Israel vs. Egypt, Jordan & Syria, 1967 (27.0%, 244 Votes)
- Chenault's Flying Tigers vs. Japan, 1941 - 42 (18.0%, 165 Votes)
- Finland vs. USSR, 1939 - 40 (18.0%, 162 Votes)
- Germany vs. USA, 1944 - 45 (7.0%, 63 Votes)
Total Voters: 900
Start Date: 2/20/2009 @ 10:08 am
End Date: No Expiry
If the atomic bomb tests had failed, eliminating the bomb as an option, what would have been the best of the alternative plans for ending WWII in the Pacific?
- Continue bombing campaign against Japan's cities (42.0%, 269 Votes)
- Invade Japan (37.0%, 237 Votes)
- Continue naval blockade of Japan (21.0%, 132 Votes)
Total Voters: 638
Start Date: 2/13/2009 @ 1:38 pm
End Date: No Expiry
The impact of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is often debated. Do you think it had:
- Great impact on American history (50.0%, 240 Votes)
- Significant impact on American history (36.0%, 175 Votes)
- Little impact on American history (9.0%, 45 Votes)
- No impact on American history (3.0%, 14 Votes)
- Uncertain (2.0%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 484
Start Date: 2/6/2009 @ 12:13 pm
End Date: No Expiry
Which of these was the most important Middle Ages siege?
- Constantinople, 1453 (66.0%, 365 Votes)
- Vienna, 1683 (12.0%, 67 Votes)
- Vienna, 1529 (10.0%, 55 Votes)
- Calais, 1346 - 1347 (6.0%, 33 Votes)
- Nicopolis, 1396 (6.0%, 33 Votes)
Total Voters: 553
Start Date: 1/30/2009 @ 10:14 am
End Date: No Expiry
If the Allies could not have invaded at Normandy, what alternate location offered the best chance for success?
- Southern France (58.0%, 371 Votes)
- Pas de Calais (25.0%, 157 Votes)
- Norway (11.0%, 71 Votes)
- Istria, on the Adriatic (6.0%, 39 Votes)
Total Voters: 639
Start Date: 1/23/2009 @ 8:19 am
End Date: No Expiry
