The real cause of the war was that 300,000 Salvadorans who had migrated to Honduras were threatened with involuntary repatriation and were reportedly being mistreated. Also, an inequality of population density led El Salvadorans to envy thousands of acres of unused Honduras land which lay just across the river. However, for ten points, what war that lasted for two weeks and cost several thousand lives in the summer of 1969 began hours after the two nations played the last of three bitterly contested matches in the World Cup?
The real cause of the war was that 300,000 Salvadorans who had migrated to Honduras were threatened with involuntary repatriation and were reportedly being mistreated. Also, an inequality of population density led El Salvadorans to envy thousands of acres of unused Honduras land which lay just across the river. However, for ten points, what war that lasted for two weeks and cost several thousand lives in the summer of 1969 began hours after the two nations played the last of three bitterly contested matches in the World Cup?
The real cause of the war was that 300,000 Salvadorans who had migrated to Honduras were threatened with involuntary repatriation and were reportedly being mistreated.
the {SOCCER WAR} (also accept: {Guerra de Futbol})