Only 2% Of People Can Pass This WW2 Quiz. Can You?

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Question 1/40

Hostilities in WWII began with the 1939 German invasion of this country.

France
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Russia

Question 2/40

The German word “Blitzkrieg” translates to…

Lightning war
Drunken fighting
Silent attack
Rolling thunder

Question 3/40

Accused of “appeasing” Hitler, this person was the Prime Minister of Great Britain when the Nazi hostilities began in 1939.

Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain
Clement Atlee

Question 4/40

What was Benito Mussolini’s nickname?

lI Capo
Il Arancia
Il Primo Violino
Il Duce

Question 5/40

On D-Day (June 6, 1944), Allied forces crossed the English Channel and stormed the beaches in this region of coastal France.

Aquitaine
Normandy
Brittany
Picardy

Question 6/40

In charge of the D-Day invasion was this American general.

Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
John Kennedy
Omar Bradley

Question 7/40

The Manhattan Project - the top secret American effort to develop a nuclear weapon - was led by…

Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Robert Oppenheimer
Enrico Fermi

Question 8/40

What were the names of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively?

Little Boy and Thin Man
Little Boy and Fat Man
Atta Boy and Sandman
Doughboy and Fat Man

Question 9/40

What was the name of the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb in history on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945?

“Enola Gay”
“Bockscar”
“Full House”
“Straight Flush”

Question 10/40

After a month of some of the most intense fighting of the war, U.S Marines captured Iwo Jima and famously raised the American flag over this mountain.

Fuji
Hirigana
Suribachi
Hitachi

Question 11/40

The battle for North Africa pitted American General George Patton and British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery against this German field marshal known as “The Desert Fox.”

Alfried Jodl
Karl Doenitz
Wilhelm Mohnke
Erwin Rommel

Question 12/40

Preparation for war between the U.S and Japan began in early 1941 and centered around the defense of China by the “The Flying Tigers” – commanded by this man.

Claire Lee Chennault
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz
Carl Spaatz

Question 13/40

One of the most effective Nazi weapons early in the war, U-boats sank almost 3,000 Allied ships and attacked in groups known as...

Pods
Löwenrudel
Blitzgruppen
Wolfpacks

Question 14/40

Vowing, “I shall return,” U.S. General Douglas MacArthur left this island nation in defeat in 1942. He returned in victory in 1944.

Formosa
Fiji
The Philippines
Hawaii

Question 15/40

This talented British intelligence officer orchestrated some very successful missions in the war, but was never given a license to kill.

Ian Fleming
Desmond Cory
Kingsley Amis
John le Carré

Question 16/40

The German code machine, Enigma, was finally broken by mathematician Alan Turing and his group at this home for the British Government Code & Cypher School.

Whitehall
Scotland Yard
Bletchley Park
Thames House

Question 17/40

The mission of Japanese kamikaze pilots was to fly their planes into Allied naval ships to exact the most damage. What does kamikaze translate to in English?

Divine wind
Fiery sky
Death with honor
Bad hangover

Question 18/40

In May 1943, the Royal Air Force began Operation Chastise in which “bouncing bombs” were dropped by Lancaster bombers to destroy what?

Nazi bunkers
U-boats
Coastal defenses
Hydroelectric dams

Question 19/40

First eaten out of necessity from GI rations, this “meat” became very popular with Hawaiians during WWII. Now a national dish, they eat over 5 million pounds a year.

Bologna
Deviled ham
Spam
Corned beef

Question 20/40

Undertaken by 800 British military and civilian boats in 1940, Operation Dynamo was the hastily coordinated evacuation of 330,000 trapped Allied troops from where?

Normandy
Dunkirk
North Africa
Holland

Question 21/40

Fought in the Ardennes forest in 1944-5, it was the last major German offensive of the war.

The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of Market Garden
The Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Monte Cassino

Question 22/40

In an attack that caused minimal damage, but that raised American morale after Pearl Harbor, this lieutenant colonel led a bombing raid on Tokyo in April 1942.

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington
Joe Foss
Jimmy Doolittle
Richard Bong

Question 23/40

What was the codename for the D-Day invasion and Battle of Normandy?

Operation Mickey Mouse
Operation Hannibal
Operation Daffy Duck
Operation Overlord

Question 24/40

In its first major offensive against Japan, Allied ground and naval forces attacked this strategically located island in August 1942, eventually capturing it in February 1943.

Rabaul
Guadalcanal
Leyte
Borneo

Question 25/40

These planes - and the RAF pilots who flew them - became legends by controlling the skies against the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain.

Supermarine Spitfires
Hawker Typhoons
Bristol Blenheims
de Havilland Mosquitoes

Question 26/40

Operation Barbarossa was Hitler’s ill-fated - and Napoleonesque - plan to invade what country?

England
Yugoslavia
France
Russia

Question 27/40

In February 1944, “The Big Three” met in Yalta in Crimea to discuss the post-war reconstruction of Europe. Who were “The Big Three?”

Churchill, Truman and Khrushchev
Atlee, Roosevelt and Stalin
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
Roosevelt, Churchill and Khrushchev

Question 28/40

The French Resistance engaged in sabotage, intelligence gathering and propaganda in their fight against the Nazis and these French Nazi collaborators.

The Vichy French
Les Espions
L’ennemi
Le Merde

Question 29/40

What was the collective name given to the English-speaking women who broadcast propaganda for the Japanese.

Orphan Annie
Lady Haw-Haw
Tokyo Rose
Sapporo Sally

Question 30/40

Aggressive and profane, this U.S. general and hero of the North African campaign, sat out of the war for 11 months for slapping a battle-fatigued soldier.

Omar Bradley
George S. Patton
Adna Chaffee
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Question 31/40

This plane was crucial to protecting long-range B-17 bomber missions over Germany and helped to ensure Allied air superiority over Europe.

The P-47 Thunderbolt
The P-38 Lightning
The F-4 Corsair
The P-51 Mustang

Question 32/40

Tasked with recovering, identifying, protecting and returning works of art and cultural significance, these allied personnel were known collectively as what?

The Professors
The Monuments Men
The Cavemen
The Bookworms

Question 33/40

What is the English translation of “Arbeit Macht Frei” – the sign appearing above the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp?

Work sets you free
Duty is freedom
Work is your fight
Work makes peace

Question 34/40

On July 20, 1944, an assassination attempt was made on Adolf Hitler at his field headquarters known as the Wolf’s Lair. That attempt was made by whom?

Russian commandos
American Special Forces
British Intelligence
Hitler’s own men

Question 35/40

After the war, this head of Germany’s rocket program and inventor of the V-2 surrendered to American forces and eventually became an integral part of NASA’s space program – including the moon landings.

Robert Goddard
Wernher von Braun
Erich Schumann
Walter Thiel

Question 36/40

Before entering the war in 1941, the United States supplied Great Britain, China and Free France with food and arms - at no cost - through this program.

Give-Grant
The Patriot Act
Lend-Lease
Project Care Package

Question 37/40

The Japanese surrender ceremony was held September 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay on the deck of this iconic U.S. battleship.

U.S.S. Massachusetts
U.S.S. Missouri
U.S.S. Constitution
U.S.S. Arizona

Question 38/40

Though not as powerful or well-armored as their German counterparts, this American tank was built in such numbers that it overwhelmed the European theater.

The M3 Stuart
The M60 Patton
The Mk. V Churchill
The M4 Sherman

Question 39/40

The forced 60-mile march of American and Filipino POWs to the Japanese prison camp at Capas, Philippines came to be known as what?

The Trail of Tears
The Hell Trail
The Bataan Death March
The Arukushi

Question 40/40

With nearly two million casualties, the 1942-43 battle between Russian and German forces for this city – now called Volgograd – was the bloodiest, not only of WWII, but in the history of warfare.

Stalingrad
Kiev
Kursk
Narva

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Only 2% Of People Can Pass This WW2 Quiz. Can You?

World War II

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