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What treaty ending WWI was a cause of German resentment before WWII?
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Ghent
Geneva Conference
What ineffective German government was headed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler by 1933?
Reichstag Republic
Federal Republic of Germany
The Bundesrat
Weimar Republic
What German speaking region of Czechoslovakia did Hitler desire by the end of the 1930's?
Alsace
Bavaria
Lorraine
Sudetenland
What French premier accompanied British Prime Minister Chamberlain to a late 1930's conference with Hitler that has today become famous for the appeasement issue?
Foche
Richard
de Gaulle
Daladier
What American staff officer oversaw the plan to rebuild the war torn Western Europe?
Marshall
Patton
Bradly
Eisenhower
Which of these WWII participants did not figure into the splitting of post WWII Germany?
Italy
United States
Britain
Russia
The post WWII Germany question caused serious tensions between what two former Allies?
US and Britain
US and France
Britain and France
US and USSR
What American Army General rode his success in WWII to the office of the Presidency? (last name only)
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The Japanese emperor during World War II was
Hirohito
Hiroshima
Hiromatsu
Tojo
Which one of the following countries was a member of the Axis Powers?
Italy
Soviet Union
China
Argentina
Which of these cities was NOT destroyed by bombing during World War II?
Dresden
Athens
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
France fell to the Nazis in
six weeks
three months
six months
France never fell to the Nazis
Which of the following was a Nazi extermination camp?
St. Helena
Andersonville
Auschwitz
Berlin
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade fought in the
Spanish Civil War
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Marne
The Battle of Britian
A key Pacific battle which gave the United States naval supremacy against Japan:
Coral Sea
Midway
Leyte Gulf
Gulf of Tonkin
Which of these Allies suffered the most military dead in World War II:
Britain
The Soviet Union
The United States
France
Which of these Nazi leaders was not born in Germany?
Goebbels
Himmler
Hitler
Rommel
Which of these Chinese cities suffered the rape and murder of hundreds of thousands of its residents by invading Japanese troops?
Nanking
Peking
Shanghai
Beijing
Toward the end of the war, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was
captured by U.S. troops and tried as a war criminal
captured and shot by Italian partisans
fled to Peru where he drowned years later while swimming
exiled to Switzerland
This German officer was promoted to field marshal the day before he surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad.
Wilhelm von Leeb
Franz Halder
Friedrich Paulus
Walter von Reichenau
Japanese wartime document described this island as "the fork in the road which leads to victory for them or for us."
Guadalcanal
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Midway
This officer replaced Joseph W. Stillwell as American commanding general of the China theater.
Douglas MacArthur
Alexander A. Vandegrift
John S. McCain
Albert C. Wedemeyer
The Allies' drive toward Rome stalled for five months after an amphibious landing near this Italian city.
Salerno
Pisa
Naples
Anzio
Two months after the invasion of Normandy, a combined American-Free French force landed near this town, routed the German defenders and swept north up the Route Napoleon.
St.-Tropez
Sete
La Rochelle
Toulouse
Operation Barbarossa was the subtitle of Fuhrer Directive No. 21, the plan of attack on this country.
Norway
Soviet Union
Greece
France
This South American country declared war on Germany less than two months before the end of hostilities in Europe.
Argentina
Chile
Paraguay
Brazil
A conference among Allied leaders at this site in 1944 composed the name "United Nations" for a post-war world organization.
Teheran
Bretton Woods
Dumbarton Oaks
San Francisco
A formal peace treaty between most of the victorious Allies and Japan came into force in this year.
1955
1947
1952
1949
When German emissaries gave beseiged American troops at Bastogne a surrender ultimatum, this general answered, "Nuts!"
George Patton
Matthew B. Ridgway
Walton H. Walker
Anthony C. McAuliffe
Hitler said, "it doesn't mean they will fight" when these two countries declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland.
Great Britain and Belgium
France and Great Britain
Netherlands and France
Norway and Sweden
This Soviet general led the West Front counterattack against German troops arrayed against Moscow.
Georgi K. Zhukov
Alexsandr M. Vasilevski
Semyon Timoshenko
Konstantin K. Rokossovski
German aircraft pounded this island throughout 1941, but it did not fall under the onslaught.
Sardinia
Corsica
Malta
Crete
In August 1942, this officer took command of the British Eighth Army in North Africa.
Bernard Law Montgomery
Louis Mountbatten
Archibald Wavell
Bertram H. Ramsay
?He was given the task of ridding Africa of the Germans.
The special American force known as Merrill's Marauders gained fame fighting where?
Philippines
Malaysia
Okinawa
Burma
About 1,400 Australian soldiers faced more than 4,000 Japanese troops in a defense of this location.
New Caledonia
Rabaul
Tulagi
Fiji
The Canadian First Army met fierce resistance from German troops in this country during the final month of combat in Europe.
Austria
Netherlands
Czechoslovakia
Poland
After fierce fighting, United States Marines captured this heavily fortified island in March, 1945.
Okinawa
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
Palau
This Japanese officer suggested a plan for a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Kiyohida Shima
Tomoyuki Yama****a
Hideki Tojo
Isoroku Yamamoto
This German general surrendered to the Allies on May 7, 1945, this signaling the end of hostilities in Europe.
Alfred Jodl
Gerd von Rundstedt
Albert Kesselring
Heinrich Himmler
This officer headed the American occupation of Japan at the conclusion of the war in the Pacific.
James Doolittle
Curtis LeMay
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Although many people refer to the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy as "Operation Overlord", the operation was actually called _______ .
Operation Neptune
Operation Trident
Operation D-Day
Operation Hailstorm
Virtually everybody knows the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima - the Enola Gay - but can you name the one that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki 3 days later?
Bock's Car
Betty Lou
Texas Tea
Black Betty
Known as the "Road of Life," this frozen lake provided a vital source of supplies for those trapped within the city of Leningrad during the 900 day siege. What is the name of this lake?
Lake Pagoda
Lake Volga
Lake Ladoga
Lake Baikal
The German invasion of the Soviet Union began on June 22, 1941. Who announced the news of the invasion to the people of the Soviet Union?
Josef Stalin
Andrei Vlasov
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Vyacheslav Molotov
Which of the following was one of few bright moments in the early Soviet War effort?
The large scale relocation of major industry prior to German occupation.
Victory at the Battle of Dneper.
The abandonment of a centrally planned economy.
The ending of the collectivization of agriculture.
This Soviet general organized an army in 1942 to fight on the side of the Germans. Who was he?
General Voroshilov
General Georgi Zhukov
General Andrei Vlasov
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky
True or false? Stalin was evacuated from Moscow on the eve of the German invasion of the city.
True
False
True or false? Stalin adopted a more lenient outlook toward the Russian Orthodox Church as part of his new emphasis on nationalism and defense of Mother Russia as a means of galvanizing the people around the Soviet war effort.
True
False
This famous order, issued by Stalin, declared that any Soviet soldier who allowed themselves to be captured by the enemy was to be considered an enemy of the state. Family members were to be arrested also. What was the order?
Order 43
Order 270
Order 95
Order 327
True or false? The massacre at Babi Yar in September of 1941 by German mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen) was the largest slaughter of Jews by these type of units in the Soviet Union.
True
False
The Grand Alliance between Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union began to show signs of strain even before the end of the war. Which of the following was NOT a reason for that strain?
The Soviet Union's territorial demands.
Katyn Forest and the massacre of Polish officers.
The need to de-Nazify Germany.
The amount of reparations to paid to the USSR by Germany.
There were two surrender ceremonies to mark the end of World War II. In what city was the first ceremony held on May 7, 1945?
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Germany
Paris, France
Reims, France
This machinegun put out a lot of lead. Over 1200 rounds a minute! Allied troops called it (erroneously) the Spandau. What was the name of this weapon.
MG-34
BAR
M2 Heavy Machinegun
MG-42
Any movie set that includes German soldiers in WW2 would be incomplete without the legendary MP-40, about how many real ones were actually made?
Fewer than 100 thousand
Roughly 2 million
Roughly 1 million
Exactly 500 thousand
The German Paratroopers needed a weapon that was lighter than the MG34/42, so an alternative was turned out, what was this?
MP42
FG42
GPMG41
SAW
What was the Luger's successor?
Walther PPK
Walther P38
Browning High Power
Webley Mark IV
Germany, like every other country in the war, had a service rifle, the Karbiner 98K. Do you know the dimensions of the bullet the rifle fired?
13mm x 107mm
7.62mm x 54mm
7.92mm x 57mm
5.45mm x 36mm
I was commander of the Vichy forces in North Africa at the time of the Allied landings in November 1942, which I enthusiastically supported, I then went on to command French forces in Italy, and became Chief of Staff following France's liberation.
Maxime Weygand
Philippe LeClerc
Thomas-Robert Bugeaud
Alphonse Juin
I was the commander of the USS Hornet in 1942 when it launched the Doolittle bombers, and then raced back to participate in the Battle of Midway. This battle proved to be the turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Raymond Spruance
William Halsey
Frank Fletcher
Marc Mitscher
It was for me that the plan for the invasion of France was named in 1940. In 1943 my reputation was made, when I almost pulled off the relief of Stalingrad, and then I pulled off the recapture of Kharkov.
Heinz Guderian
Franz Halder
Gunther von Kluge
Erich von Manstein
I was in command of the United States Pacific Fleet when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor, and was removed from command almost immediately afterwards.
Husband Kimmel
Fred Sherman
William Leahy
Conrad Helfrich
I commanded the 62nd Army at the Battle of Stalingrad, and went on to accept the surrender of the city of Berlin.
Pavel Rybalko
Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Vasily Chuikov
Alexander Klubov
I was Inspector General of Fighters in the Luftwaffe, and at the age of 30 became the youngest General in the German Armed Forces.
Werner Molders
Adolf Galland
Hans Rudel
Erich Hartmann
Though I was in the German Air Force, it was as commander of ground forces in Italy that I really made my mark. I slowed down the Allied advance so successfully that eventually I was promoted to command German forces in Western Europe.
Ernst Udet
Albrecht Kesselring
Hugo Sperrle
Erhard Milch
I started the war as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, after which I commanded all British Expeditionary Forces in France in 1940. Though I was responsible for withdrawing the Army so that it could be saved at Dunkirk, it was determined that I should move aside, and I held secondary posts for the remainder of the war.
Edmund Ironside
John Gort
John Dill
Alan Brooke
I was Commander in Chief of the German Army at the outbreak of the war, but after the Army's failure to capture Moskow in 1941 I was dismissed and Hitler took over personal command of the Army.
Walter von Brauchitsch
Paul von Kleist
Walter von Reichenau
Wilhelm von Leeb
I commanded the U.S. Tenth Army in the last operation of the war in the Pacific, the capture of Okinawa. I was killed shortly before the island was secured by a piece of shrapnel that hit me in the heart.
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Reichmarschall Hermann Goering was number one in Nazi Germany next to Hitler himself. Which of the following is NOT true?
He was Chief of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)
He was executed for war crimes on October 15, 1946.
He was an ace fighter pilot of WW I
He was named Hitler's successor in 1939
Adolf Eichmann became an SS Lieutenant-Colonel during WWII. Which of the is NOT true concerning Eichmann?
Eichmann escaped to Argentina after the war where he died in 1961.
Prior to the war, he worked as a travelling salesman.
Eichmann was Chief of the Jewish Office of the Gestapo.
Eichmann's office was the headquarters for the 'Final Solution' which he was to implement.
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuehrer of the SS, Chief of the German Police and SS. Which of the following is NOT true?
Himmler ordered the establishment of Auschwitz in Poland
He was godson of Prince Heinrich von Bayern.
Shot and killed by British soldiers while trying to escape
He worked for a time as a poultry farmer.
Joseph Goebbels was born on October 29, 1897. Which of the following is NOT true?
He had a crippled foot due to a WW I injury.
He was shot by an SS guard at his own request
He was the Nazi propaganda leader.
His wife tried to divorce him because of his numerous affairs.
Which of the following Nazis was Hitler's personal lawyer?
Martin Bormann
Klaus Barbie
Hans Frank
Alois Brunner
Did Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun ever marry?
Yes
No
Which of the following was referred to as the "Angel of Death"?
Hans Munch
Heinrich Himmler
Josef Mengele
Adolf Hitler
Albert Speer was what by trade?
A travelling salesman
An architect
A lawyer
An accountant
This SS man was nicknamed the 'Butcher of Lyon'. Who was he?
Hans Fritzsche
Alfred Jodl
Klaus Barbie
Walter Funk
Hitler promoted this Nazi to the rank of Commander and Chief of the German Navy only to charge him of incompetence later on in 1943. Who was he?
Erich Raeder
Alfred Jodl
Karl Doenitz
Franz Von Pappen
What was the code name for the allied efforts to create an Atomic Bomb?
The Mannerheim Project
The Manhattan Project
The Mutilation Project
The Maddison Project
In the summer of 1940 the German High Command drew up plans for the invasion of Britain. What was the code name for this operation?
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Walrus
Operation Seal
Operation Sea Leopard
What was the German code name for the summer offensive against Russia in 1941?
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Danube
Operation Cossack
Operation Bismark
The Allies tried to fool the Germans into believing that they were going to invade France through the French port of Calais. To this end they built elaborate fake installations in the Dover area of south eastern England. What was the code name given to this operation?
Operation Fortitude
Operation France
Operation Phoney
Operation Forthright
On September 8th, 1943 General Mark Clark led the US 5th Army on this invasion of the Italian Mainland, code named?
Operation Alpine
Operation Kestral
Operation Austral
Operation Avalanche
What was the name of the pivotal Naval battle fought between the USA and Japan off the north east coast of Australia in May 1942?
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Okinawa
What was the code name for the allied assault on Arnhem in the Netherlands on September 17th, 1944, depicted in the movie 'A Bridge Too Far'?
Operation Bridgehead
Operation Flying Fox
Operation Ulysses
Operation Market Garden
What was the name given to the last great tank battle of World War 2?
The Last Great Tank Battle
The Somme
Operation Breakout
The Battle of the Bulge
What Australian city was bombed more heavily than Pearl Harbor?
Sydney
Darwin
Melbourne
Perth
What was the name of the decisive naval battle, in June 1942, that saw the destruction of a major part of the Japanese fleet?
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Okinawa
As part of 'Operation Thunderclap' on February 13-15 1945, the RAF and US Airforce fire bombed a major German city into non-existence. What was the name of this city?
Dresden
Hamburg
Berlin
Munich
From July 1942 to January 1943 Australian troops fought a bloody battle against the Japanese along a muddy jungle trail that tranversed the highlands of New Guinea. What was the name of this trail?
The Konyoda Trail
The Kodak Trail
The Kokoda Trail
The Kodiak Trail
Only 3 men of a crew of 1,420 survived the sudden explosion of this British ship, engaged in a battle with the German warship 'Bismarck' on May 24th, 1941?
HMS Suffolk
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Norfolk
HMS Hood
What was the name of the US warship upon which the final Japanese surrender was accepted, on September 2nd, 1945?
USS Missouri
USS Yorktown
USS Enterprise
USS Hornet
What was the name of the city that was given international status at the end of WWI and was the center of the infamous Polish Corridor?
Moscow
Danzig
Berlin
London
What was the alliance the France made with Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia in 1921 called?
Le Secure
The Quadruple Edged sword
The Little Entente
The Axis alliance
On what date was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
June 28, 1918
November 28, 1918
July 28, 1919
June 28, 1919
Which famous article of the Treaty of Versailles stated that nations were to disarm "to a level that is consistent with national safety"?
Article 16
Article 8
"The disarmament white paper"
President Wilson's 14 points
In what year was the Treaty of Rapallo signed between Germany and the Soviet Union?
1922
1939
1919
1926
Who were the 'Big Four' at the Versailles Conference held in the Hall of Mirrors?
Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyed George and Vittorio Orlando
Neville Chamberlin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco
Woodrow Wilson, Malcolm Faser, Georges Clemenceau and Winston Churchill
Douglas Haig, Leon Blum, Joseph Stalin and Che Guevara
In what year did Germany enter the League of Nations?
1939
1933
1926
1945
In what year was the Treaty of Locarno signed?
1925
1922
1919
1929
What did the Locarno Treaty guarantee?
France's willingness allow German troops into the Rhineland
Germany's Eastern Borders as set out in the Versailles Treaty
Germany's Western Borders as set out in the Versaillies Treaty
Gemany's willingness to admit that she caused WWI
What year did Mussolini and the Fascist Party in Italy come to power?
1922
1929
1933
1923
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
An economic plan to get Italy out of the Great Depression
An agreement reached between US Secretary of State, Kellogg, and French Foriegn Minister, Briand agr
A document that renounced war as a means of national policy
A pact that was made between Fascist Powers in Europe to invade the USSR
What year did Japan invade Manchuria?
1943
1939
1931
1941
What began in 1929 and was to have major consequences for the world in regard to causing another war?
The Industrial Revolution
WWII
The French Revolution
The Great Depression
What was the purpose of the Comintern?
To outlaw Communism in Germany
To promote Soviet interest abroad and 'spread the revolution'
To create a broad-left alliance against Fascism
To set up a Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe
"The economic clauses of the treaty were malignant and silly to the extent that made them obviously futile". Who said this about the Versailles Treaty's economic clauses?
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
What year did Adolf Hitler come to power in Germany?
1933
1939
1929
1934
How many seats did the Nazi Party gain in the Reichstag in the March 1933 elections in Germany?
288
196
107
169
What event ensured that Hitler would be dictator of Germany?
The Battle of Britain
The Reichstag Fire
Anschluss with Austria
The boycott on Jewish shops
In what year did Hitler re-militarise the Rhineland?
1939
1938
1936
1932
In what year did the Soviet Union enter the League of Nations?
1922
1934
1926
1928
What was the date of the Munich Conference?
September 29-30, 1936
September 29-30, 1938
September 29-30, 1941
September 29-30, 1933
The Munich agreement ceded what to Germany?
Upper Silesia
The Sudetenland
Alsace-Lorraine
Czechoslovakia
In what month and year did Anschluss take place?
March 1938
September 1936
March 1939
September 1939
Who was present at the Munich Conference?
Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler
Baldwin, Orlando, Stalin and Hitler
Chamberlain, Blum, Mussolini and Hitler
Lenin, Franco, Mussolini and Hitler
When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed?
September 1, 1939
August 25, 1939
August 23, 1939
August 20, 1939
What was the name of the admiral that commanded the Bismarck in battle and went down with his ship?
Karl Doenitz
Gunther Lutjens
Heinrich Raeder
Maximilin Graf von Spee
What is the name of the German U-Boat commander that succeeded in invading the British anchorage of Scapa Flow?
Gunther Prien
Wolfgang Luth
Otto Kretchmer
Hans-Gunther Lange
What was the name of the only German Aircraft Carrier that was laid down but never completed?
Graf Spee
Graf Zepplin
Admiral Hipper
Admiral Tirpitz
What is the name of the TOP flying ace of the Second World War?
Gerhard Barkhorn
Erich Hartmann
Gunther Rall
Otto Kittel
What was the name of the Heavy Cruiser sank just two weeks before the end of WW II? (hint: It's name is mentioned by Robert Shaw in the movie "JAWS")
USS Indianapolis
USS Chicago
USS New Jersey
USS Indiana
What was the name of the bomber that dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Enola
Alamo
Retribution
Enola Gay
What was the name of the MOST decorated soldier of the Second World War?
Lt. Aaron Murray
Capt. Franklin Pierce
Lt. Audie Leon Murphy
Sgt. J.T. York
What was the name of the first "post Dreadnaught" Battleship in the U.S.Navy?
USS Maine
USS Indiana
USS Texas
USS Arkansas
What was the name of the US navy's first Aircraft Carrier?
USS Langley
USS Hornet
USS Enterprise
USS Saratoga
What was the name of the Admiral who was in overall command of the Imperial Japanese Navy?
Isoruku Yamamoto
Kiyohide Shima
Shoji Nishimura
Admiral Tojo
What World War II movie portrays the D-day invasion from start to finish with an all-star cast?
From Here to Eternity
The Longest Day
Blitzkrieg
Patton
Which two British Battlecruisers were sunk while in action with the British Battleship HMS Prince Of Wales?
HMS King George V and HMS Valiant
HMS Repulse and HMS Ramilles
HMS Hood and HMS Repulse
HMS Hood and HMS Rodney
To whom did Adolf Hitler dictate the transcript of "Mein Kampf"?
Hermann Goring
Martin Bormann
Rudolph Hess
Ernst Rohm
Where and when was Adolf Hitler born?
Vienna, Austria, April 20, 1900
Hamburg, Germany, April 19, 1891
Bonn, Germany, May 23, 1887
Braunau Am Inn, Austria, April 20, 1889
What was the code name for the invasion of Africa?
Operation Overlord
Operation Anvil
Operation Avalanche
Operation Torch
What was 'Operation Millenium'?
1st.bombing of the Ploesti oilfields
Invasion of Italy
The first 1,000 bomber raid
Invasion of Germany
On what date did the Allied invasion of France occur?
June 6, 1944
June 8, 1945
June 4, 1944
July 6, 1944
What was the name of the ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat that helped bring the United States into WW II?
SS Lusitainia
SS New York
SS Erethusa
SS Athenia
What claim to infamy is acredited to Alois Schicklgruber?
Geman master spy
German U-boat ace
He is Adolph Hitler's father
German army General
How many beaches were earmarked for the invading Allied troops on D-Day?
five
six
four
three
What was the name of the first jet propelled fighter to fight in WW II?
Fokker-265
Me-336
Me-262
Junkers-47
Who was the overall commander of all Allied forces at the war's end?
General Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
General Bradley
Archibald Wavell
How may years did the Second World War last (from the day war was declared on Germany, to the end of hostilities with Japan)?
October 30, 1939 - July 30, 1945
August 31, 1938 - August 23, 1945
September 3, 1939 - September 2, 1945
September 23, 1939 - September 3, 1945
Which battle below took place near a spot known as Lunga Point?
Pearl Harbor
Leyte Gulf
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
The last defensive line established by Germany across the Italian peninsula was known as...
The Caesar Line
The Gustav Line
The Gothic Line
The Arno Line
Which statement below is true about the US 13th Airborne Division's service in Europe?
They were the only airborne division in Europe made up entirely of African Americans.
They suffered 90 percent casulties after walking into an ambush at the Hurtgen Forest.
They were the only American division in Europe that never saw action.
They were dropped behind the Rhine to secure the Remagen bridgehead.
Who wrote the post-WWII book 'Panzer Leader'?
Heinz Guderian
Paul Hausser
Erwin Romel
Friedrich Von Paulus
The German word 'panzer' means...
Tank
Armored
Motorized
Steel
Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden, and V.M. Molotov all had a part in which one of the following events...
The Moscow Conference
Drafting the Murmansk Compromise
Signing of the Yalta Protocals
The Yakoff Agreement
What do each of the following have in common: Konstantin von Neurath, Reinhard Heydrich, and Karl Herman Frank?
They have nothing in common.
They succeeded each other as Reich Protector of Bohemia-Moravia.
They co-authored the Wannsee Conference proposal that lead to the final solution.
They were all awarded the Knight's Cross with oakleaves eventhough none of them ever saw combat.
The 'Fighting Lady' was the nickname of the...
USS Saratoga
USS Lexington
USS Yorktown
USS Bunker Hill
The Battle of the Coral Sea took place because...
US and Japanese forces ran into each other by accident.
The allies were trying to prevent an invasion of Port Moresby.
The British insisted that the US join them in achieving a much needed victory in the Pacific.
The Japanese knew from message intercepts that the US fleet would be in the Coral Sea.
Which of the following was NOT the code name for an electronic warfare project during WWII?
Jasmine
Knickebein
Huff-Duff
Herald
World War II started with the German invasion of Poland on this date:
March 3, 1940
August 11, 1939
Septemer 1, 1939
November 23, 1939
Adolf Hitler's aborted plan to invade Great Britain was called:
The Schlieffen Plan
The Kraftwerk Offensive
Operation Bismark
Operation Sealion
This man was head of Germany's Luftwaffe:
Herman Goering
Hans Eichelberger
Heinrich Himmler
Peter Botha
The United States equipped some of its servicemen with BAR Guns. BAR stood for:
Ballistic Ammunition Rifle
Browning Automatic Rifle
Ballistic Automatic Reloader
Bren Automatic Repeater
What German ship was lost in the Battle of the River Plate?
Hipper
Admiral Graf Spee
Deutschland
Bismark
This was the first naval battle fought solely between aircraft carriers:
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Battle of Jutland
Battle of the Coral Sea
This last battle of World War II was fought on this island:
Iwo Jima
Singapore
Guadalcanal
Okinawa
Hopelessly outnumbered Canadian troops surrendered this Crown Colony to the Japanese on Chrismas Day 1941:
Guadalcanal
Singapore
Hong Kong
Malaysia
This German tank was the heaviest of the war:
Panzer Mk. IV
Elefant
Hummel
Tiger II
The American atomic bomb development program was nicknamed:
The Philadelphia Experiment
The Oppenheimer Project
The Starshell Program
The Manhattan Project
This country's forces fought and won the Battle For Berlin, bringing an end to the war in Europe:
Great Britain
Canada
Russia
United States
The Japanese built the two biggest battleships of World War II. One was called the Yamato, the other was called the?
Musashi
Mikuma
Migumo
Hiryu
On D-Day, which beach did the Canadians come ashore on?
Omaha
Sword
Juno
Utah
What was the nickname of the Grumman F6F fighter plane?
Spitfire
Hellcat
Butcherbird
Avenger
Who was "The Last Fuhrer"?
Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler
Admiral Karl Donitz
Oberstgruppenfuhrer Otto Ohlendorf
Reichminister Adolf Eichmann
On October 31 1941, weeks before a declaration of war, a US Navy Destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat. What was the name of the US Destroyer?
USS Reuben James
USS Breckinridge
USS Greer
USS Lawrence
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Ghent
Geneva Conference
What ineffective German government was headed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler by 1933?
Reichstag Republic
Federal Republic of Germany
The Bundesrat
Weimar Republic
What German speaking region of Czechoslovakia did Hitler desire by the end of the 1930's?
Alsace
Bavaria
Lorraine
Sudetenland
What French premier accompanied British Prime Minister Chamberlain to a late 1930's conference with Hitler that has today become famous for the appeasement issue?
Foche
Richard
de Gaulle
Daladier
What American staff officer oversaw the plan to rebuild the war torn Western Europe?
Marshall
Patton
Bradly
Eisenhower
Which of these WWII participants did not figure into the splitting of post WWII Germany?
Italy
United States
Britain
Russia
The post WWII Germany question caused serious tensions between what two former Allies?
US and Britain
US and France
Britain and France
US and USSR
What American Army General rode his success in WWII to the office of the Presidency? (last name only)
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The Japanese emperor during World War II was
Hirohito
Hiroshima
Hiromatsu
Tojo
Which one of the following countries was a member of the Axis Powers?
Italy
Soviet Union
China
Argentina
Which of these cities was NOT destroyed by bombing during World War II?
Dresden
Athens
Nagasaki
Hiroshima
France fell to the Nazis in
six weeks
three months
six months
France never fell to the Nazis
Which of the following was a Nazi extermination camp?
St. Helena
Andersonville
Auschwitz
Berlin
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade fought in the
Spanish Civil War
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Marne
The Battle of Britian
A key Pacific battle which gave the United States naval supremacy against Japan:
Coral Sea
Midway
Leyte Gulf
Gulf of Tonkin
Which of these Allies suffered the most military dead in World War II:
Britain
The Soviet Union
The United States
France
Which of these Nazi leaders was not born in Germany?
Goebbels
Himmler
Hitler
Rommel
Which of these Chinese cities suffered the rape and murder of hundreds of thousands of its residents by invading Japanese troops?
Nanking
Peking
Shanghai
Beijing
Toward the end of the war, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was
captured by U.S. troops and tried as a war criminal
captured and shot by Italian partisans
fled to Peru where he drowned years later while swimming
exiled to Switzerland
This German officer was promoted to field marshal the day before he surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad.
Wilhelm von Leeb
Franz Halder
Friedrich Paulus
Walter von Reichenau
Japanese wartime document described this island as "the fork in the road which leads to victory for them or for us."
Guadalcanal
Okinawa
Iwo Jima
Midway
This officer replaced Joseph W. Stillwell as American commanding general of the China theater.
Douglas MacArthur
Alexander A. Vandegrift
John S. McCain
Albert C. Wedemeyer
The Allies' drive toward Rome stalled for five months after an amphibious landing near this Italian city.
Salerno
Pisa
Naples
Anzio
Two months after the invasion of Normandy, a combined American-Free French force landed near this town, routed the German defenders and swept north up the Route Napoleon.
St.-Tropez
Sete
La Rochelle
Toulouse
Operation Barbarossa was the subtitle of Fuhrer Directive No. 21, the plan of attack on this country.
Norway
Soviet Union
Greece
France
This South American country declared war on Germany less than two months before the end of hostilities in Europe.
Argentina
Chile
Paraguay
Brazil
A conference among Allied leaders at this site in 1944 composed the name "United Nations" for a post-war world organization.
Teheran
Bretton Woods
Dumbarton Oaks
San Francisco
A formal peace treaty between most of the victorious Allies and Japan came into force in this year.
1955
1947
1952
1949
When German emissaries gave beseiged American troops at Bastogne a surrender ultimatum, this general answered, "Nuts!"
George Patton
Matthew B. Ridgway
Walton H. Walker
Anthony C. McAuliffe
Hitler said, "it doesn't mean they will fight" when these two countries declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland.
Great Britain and Belgium
France and Great Britain
Netherlands and France
Norway and Sweden
This Soviet general led the West Front counterattack against German troops arrayed against Moscow.
Georgi K. Zhukov
Alexsandr M. Vasilevski
Semyon Timoshenko
Konstantin K. Rokossovski
German aircraft pounded this island throughout 1941, but it did not fall under the onslaught.
Sardinia
Corsica
Malta
Crete
In August 1942, this officer took command of the British Eighth Army in North Africa.
Bernard Law Montgomery
Louis Mountbatten
Archibald Wavell
Bertram H. Ramsay
?He was given the task of ridding Africa of the Germans.
The special American force known as Merrill's Marauders gained fame fighting where?
Philippines
Malaysia
Okinawa
Burma
About 1,400 Australian soldiers faced more than 4,000 Japanese troops in a defense of this location.
New Caledonia
Rabaul
Tulagi
Fiji
The Canadian First Army met fierce resistance from German troops in this country during the final month of combat in Europe.
Austria
Netherlands
Czechoslovakia
Poland
After fierce fighting, United States Marines captured this heavily fortified island in March, 1945.
Okinawa
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
Palau
This Japanese officer suggested a plan for a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Kiyohida Shima
Tomoyuki Yama****a
Hideki Tojo
Isoroku Yamamoto
This German general surrendered to the Allies on May 7, 1945, this signaling the end of hostilities in Europe.
Alfred Jodl
Gerd von Rundstedt
Albert Kesselring
Heinrich Himmler
This officer headed the American occupation of Japan at the conclusion of the war in the Pacific.
James Doolittle
Curtis LeMay
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Although many people refer to the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy as "Operation Overlord", the operation was actually called _______ .
Operation Neptune
Operation Trident
Operation D-Day
Operation Hailstorm
Virtually everybody knows the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima - the Enola Gay - but can you name the one that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki 3 days later?
Bock's Car
Betty Lou
Texas Tea
Black Betty
Known as the "Road of Life," this frozen lake provided a vital source of supplies for those trapped within the city of Leningrad during the 900 day siege. What is the name of this lake?
Lake Pagoda
Lake Volga
Lake Ladoga
Lake Baikal
The German invasion of the Soviet Union began on June 22, 1941. Who announced the news of the invasion to the people of the Soviet Union?
Josef Stalin
Andrei Vlasov
Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Vyacheslav Molotov
Which of the following was one of few bright moments in the early Soviet War effort?
The large scale relocation of major industry prior to German occupation.
Victory at the Battle of Dneper.
The abandonment of a centrally planned economy.
The ending of the collectivization of agriculture.
This Soviet general organized an army in 1942 to fight on the side of the Germans. Who was he?
General Voroshilov
General Georgi Zhukov
General Andrei Vlasov
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky
True or false? Stalin was evacuated from Moscow on the eve of the German invasion of the city.
True
False
True or false? Stalin adopted a more lenient outlook toward the Russian Orthodox Church as part of his new emphasis on nationalism and defense of Mother Russia as a means of galvanizing the people around the Soviet war effort.
True
False
This famous order, issued by Stalin, declared that any Soviet soldier who allowed themselves to be captured by the enemy was to be considered an enemy of the state. Family members were to be arrested also. What was the order?
Order 43
Order 270
Order 95
Order 327
True or false? The massacre at Babi Yar in September of 1941 by German mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen) was the largest slaughter of Jews by these type of units in the Soviet Union.
True
False
The Grand Alliance between Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union began to show signs of strain even before the end of the war. Which of the following was NOT a reason for that strain?
The Soviet Union's territorial demands.
Katyn Forest and the massacre of Polish officers.
The need to de-Nazify Germany.
The amount of reparations to paid to the USSR by Germany.
There were two surrender ceremonies to mark the end of World War II. In what city was the first ceremony held on May 7, 1945?
Berlin, Germany
Munich, Germany
Paris, France
Reims, France
This machinegun put out a lot of lead. Over 1200 rounds a minute! Allied troops called it (erroneously) the Spandau. What was the name of this weapon.
MG-34
BAR
M2 Heavy Machinegun
MG-42
Any movie set that includes German soldiers in WW2 would be incomplete without the legendary MP-40, about how many real ones were actually made?
Fewer than 100 thousand
Roughly 2 million
Roughly 1 million
Exactly 500 thousand
The German Paratroopers needed a weapon that was lighter than the MG34/42, so an alternative was turned out, what was this?
MP42
FG42
GPMG41
SAW
What was the Luger's successor?
Walther PPK
Walther P38
Browning High Power
Webley Mark IV
Germany, like every other country in the war, had a service rifle, the Karbiner 98K. Do you know the dimensions of the bullet the rifle fired?
13mm x 107mm
7.62mm x 54mm
7.92mm x 57mm
5.45mm x 36mm
I was commander of the Vichy forces in North Africa at the time of the Allied landings in November 1942, which I enthusiastically supported, I then went on to command French forces in Italy, and became Chief of Staff following France's liberation.
Maxime Weygand
Philippe LeClerc
Thomas-Robert Bugeaud
Alphonse Juin
I was the commander of the USS Hornet in 1942 when it launched the Doolittle bombers, and then raced back to participate in the Battle of Midway. This battle proved to be the turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Raymond Spruance
William Halsey
Frank Fletcher
Marc Mitscher
It was for me that the plan for the invasion of France was named in 1940. In 1943 my reputation was made, when I almost pulled off the relief of Stalingrad, and then I pulled off the recapture of Kharkov.
Heinz Guderian
Franz Halder
Gunther von Kluge
Erich von Manstein
I was in command of the United States Pacific Fleet when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor, and was removed from command almost immediately afterwards.
Husband Kimmel
Fred Sherman
William Leahy
Conrad Helfrich
I commanded the 62nd Army at the Battle of Stalingrad, and went on to accept the surrender of the city of Berlin.
Pavel Rybalko
Ivan Chernyakhovsky
Vasily Chuikov
Alexander Klubov
I was Inspector General of Fighters in the Luftwaffe, and at the age of 30 became the youngest General in the German Armed Forces.
Werner Molders
Adolf Galland
Hans Rudel
Erich Hartmann
Though I was in the German Air Force, it was as commander of ground forces in Italy that I really made my mark. I slowed down the Allied advance so successfully that eventually I was promoted to command German forces in Western Europe.
Ernst Udet
Albrecht Kesselring
Hugo Sperrle
Erhard Milch
I started the war as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, after which I commanded all British Expeditionary Forces in France in 1940. Though I was responsible for withdrawing the Army so that it could be saved at Dunkirk, it was determined that I should move aside, and I held secondary posts for the remainder of the war.
Edmund Ironside
John Gort
John Dill
Alan Brooke
I was Commander in Chief of the German Army at the outbreak of the war, but after the Army's failure to capture Moskow in 1941 I was dismissed and Hitler took over personal command of the Army.
Walter von Brauchitsch
Paul von Kleist
Walter von Reichenau
Wilhelm von Leeb
I commanded the U.S. Tenth Army in the last operation of the war in the Pacific, the capture of Okinawa. I was killed shortly before the island was secured by a piece of shrapnel that hit me in the heart.
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Reichmarschall Hermann Goering was number one in Nazi Germany next to Hitler himself. Which of the following is NOT true?
He was Chief of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)
He was executed for war crimes on October 15, 1946.
He was an ace fighter pilot of WW I
He was named Hitler's successor in 1939
Adolf Eichmann became an SS Lieutenant-Colonel during WWII. Which of the is NOT true concerning Eichmann?
Eichmann escaped to Argentina after the war where he died in 1961.
Prior to the war, he worked as a travelling salesman.
Eichmann was Chief of the Jewish Office of the Gestapo.
Eichmann's office was the headquarters for the 'Final Solution' which he was to implement.
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuehrer of the SS, Chief of the German Police and SS. Which of the following is NOT true?
Himmler ordered the establishment of Auschwitz in Poland
He was godson of Prince Heinrich von Bayern.
Shot and killed by British soldiers while trying to escape
He worked for a time as a poultry farmer.
Joseph Goebbels was born on October 29, 1897. Which of the following is NOT true?
He had a crippled foot due to a WW I injury.
He was shot by an SS guard at his own request
He was the Nazi propaganda leader.
His wife tried to divorce him because of his numerous affairs.
Which of the following Nazis was Hitler's personal lawyer?
Martin Bormann
Klaus Barbie
Hans Frank
Alois Brunner
Did Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun ever marry?
Yes
No
Which of the following was referred to as the "Angel of Death"?
Hans Munch
Heinrich Himmler
Josef Mengele
Adolf Hitler
Albert Speer was what by trade?
A travelling salesman
An architect
A lawyer
An accountant
This SS man was nicknamed the 'Butcher of Lyon'. Who was he?
Hans Fritzsche
Alfred Jodl
Klaus Barbie
Walter Funk
Hitler promoted this Nazi to the rank of Commander and Chief of the German Navy only to charge him of incompetence later on in 1943. Who was he?
Erich Raeder
Alfred Jodl
Karl Doenitz
Franz Von Pappen
What was the code name for the allied efforts to create an Atomic Bomb?
The Mannerheim Project
The Manhattan Project
The Mutilation Project
The Maddison Project
In the summer of 1940 the German High Command drew up plans for the invasion of Britain. What was the code name for this operation?
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Walrus
Operation Seal
Operation Sea Leopard
What was the German code name for the summer offensive against Russia in 1941?
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Danube
Operation Cossack
Operation Bismark
The Allies tried to fool the Germans into believing that they were going to invade France through the French port of Calais. To this end they built elaborate fake installations in the Dover area of south eastern England. What was the code name given to this operation?
Operation Fortitude
Operation France
Operation Phoney
Operation Forthright
On September 8th, 1943 General Mark Clark led the US 5th Army on this invasion of the Italian Mainland, code named?
Operation Alpine
Operation Kestral
Operation Austral
Operation Avalanche
What was the name of the pivotal Naval battle fought between the USA and Japan off the north east coast of Australia in May 1942?
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Okinawa
What was the code name for the allied assault on Arnhem in the Netherlands on September 17th, 1944, depicted in the movie 'A Bridge Too Far'?
Operation Bridgehead
Operation Flying Fox
Operation Ulysses
Operation Market Garden
What was the name given to the last great tank battle of World War 2?
The Last Great Tank Battle
The Somme
Operation Breakout
The Battle of the Bulge
What Australian city was bombed more heavily than Pearl Harbor?
Sydney
Darwin
Melbourne
Perth
What was the name of the decisive naval battle, in June 1942, that saw the destruction of a major part of the Japanese fleet?
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Okinawa
As part of 'Operation Thunderclap' on February 13-15 1945, the RAF and US Airforce fire bombed a major German city into non-existence. What was the name of this city?
Dresden
Hamburg
Berlin
Munich
From July 1942 to January 1943 Australian troops fought a bloody battle against the Japanese along a muddy jungle trail that tranversed the highlands of New Guinea. What was the name of this trail?
The Konyoda Trail
The Kodak Trail
The Kokoda Trail
The Kodiak Trail
Only 3 men of a crew of 1,420 survived the sudden explosion of this British ship, engaged in a battle with the German warship 'Bismarck' on May 24th, 1941?
HMS Suffolk
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Norfolk
HMS Hood
What was the name of the US warship upon which the final Japanese surrender was accepted, on September 2nd, 1945?
USS Missouri
USS Yorktown
USS Enterprise
USS Hornet
What was the name of the city that was given international status at the end of WWI and was the center of the infamous Polish Corridor?
Moscow
Danzig
Berlin
London
What was the alliance the France made with Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia in 1921 called?
Le Secure
The Quadruple Edged sword
The Little Entente
The Axis alliance
On what date was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
June 28, 1918
November 28, 1918
July 28, 1919
June 28, 1919
Which famous article of the Treaty of Versailles stated that nations were to disarm "to a level that is consistent with national safety"?
Article 16
Article 8
"The disarmament white paper"
President Wilson's 14 points
In what year was the Treaty of Rapallo signed between Germany and the Soviet Union?
1922
1939
1919
1926
Who were the 'Big Four' at the Versailles Conference held in the Hall of Mirrors?
Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyed George and Vittorio Orlando
Neville Chamberlin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco
Woodrow Wilson, Malcolm Faser, Georges Clemenceau and Winston Churchill
Douglas Haig, Leon Blum, Joseph Stalin and Che Guevara
In what year did Germany enter the League of Nations?
1939
1933
1926
1945
In what year was the Treaty of Locarno signed?
1925
1922
1919
1929
What did the Locarno Treaty guarantee?
France's willingness allow German troops into the Rhineland
Germany's Eastern Borders as set out in the Versailles Treaty
Germany's Western Borders as set out in the Versaillies Treaty
Gemany's willingness to admit that she caused WWI
What year did Mussolini and the Fascist Party in Italy come to power?
1922
1929
1933
1923
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
An economic plan to get Italy out of the Great Depression
An agreement reached between US Secretary of State, Kellogg, and French Foriegn Minister, Briand agr
A document that renounced war as a means of national policy
A pact that was made between Fascist Powers in Europe to invade the USSR
What year did Japan invade Manchuria?
1943
1939
1931
1941
What began in 1929 and was to have major consequences for the world in regard to causing another war?
The Industrial Revolution
WWII
The French Revolution
The Great Depression
What was the purpose of the Comintern?
To outlaw Communism in Germany
To promote Soviet interest abroad and 'spread the revolution'
To create a broad-left alliance against Fascism
To set up a Soviet bloc in Eastern Europe
"The economic clauses of the treaty were malignant and silly to the extent that made them obviously futile". Who said this about the Versailles Treaty's economic clauses?
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
What year did Adolf Hitler come to power in Germany?
1933
1939
1929
1934
How many seats did the Nazi Party gain in the Reichstag in the March 1933 elections in Germany?
288
196
107
169
What event ensured that Hitler would be dictator of Germany?
The Battle of Britain
The Reichstag Fire
Anschluss with Austria
The boycott on Jewish shops
In what year did Hitler re-militarise the Rhineland?
1939
1938
1936
1932
In what year did the Soviet Union enter the League of Nations?
1922
1934
1926
1928
What was the date of the Munich Conference?
September 29-30, 1936
September 29-30, 1938
September 29-30, 1941
September 29-30, 1933
The Munich agreement ceded what to Germany?
Upper Silesia
The Sudetenland
Alsace-Lorraine
Czechoslovakia
In what month and year did Anschluss take place?
March 1938
September 1936
March 1939
September 1939
Who was present at the Munich Conference?
Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler
Baldwin, Orlando, Stalin and Hitler
Chamberlain, Blum, Mussolini and Hitler
Lenin, Franco, Mussolini and Hitler
When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed?
September 1, 1939
August 25, 1939
August 23, 1939
August 20, 1939
What was the name of the admiral that commanded the Bismarck in battle and went down with his ship?
Karl Doenitz
Gunther Lutjens
Heinrich Raeder
Maximilin Graf von Spee
What is the name of the German U-Boat commander that succeeded in invading the British anchorage of Scapa Flow?
Gunther Prien
Wolfgang Luth
Otto Kretchmer
Hans-Gunther Lange
What was the name of the only German Aircraft Carrier that was laid down but never completed?
Graf Spee
Graf Zepplin
Admiral Hipper
Admiral Tirpitz
What is the name of the TOP flying ace of the Second World War?
Gerhard Barkhorn
Erich Hartmann
Gunther Rall
Otto Kittel
What was the name of the Heavy Cruiser sank just two weeks before the end of WW II? (hint: It's name is mentioned by Robert Shaw in the movie "JAWS")
USS Indianapolis
USS Chicago
USS New Jersey
USS Indiana
What was the name of the bomber that dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Enola
Alamo
Retribution
Enola Gay
What was the name of the MOST decorated soldier of the Second World War?
Lt. Aaron Murray
Capt. Franklin Pierce
Lt. Audie Leon Murphy
Sgt. J.T. York
What was the name of the first "post Dreadnaught" Battleship in the U.S.Navy?
USS Maine
USS Indiana
USS Texas
USS Arkansas
What was the name of the US navy's first Aircraft Carrier?
USS Langley
USS Hornet
USS Enterprise
USS Saratoga
What was the name of the Admiral who was in overall command of the Imperial Japanese Navy?
Isoruku Yamamoto
Kiyohide Shima
Shoji Nishimura
Admiral Tojo
What World War II movie portrays the D-day invasion from start to finish with an all-star cast?
From Here to Eternity
The Longest Day
Blitzkrieg
Patton
Which two British Battlecruisers were sunk while in action with the British Battleship HMS Prince Of Wales?
HMS King George V and HMS Valiant
HMS Repulse and HMS Ramilles
HMS Hood and HMS Repulse
HMS Hood and HMS Rodney
To whom did Adolf Hitler dictate the transcript of "Mein Kampf"?
Hermann Goring
Martin Bormann
Rudolph Hess
Ernst Rohm
Where and when was Adolf Hitler born?
Vienna, Austria, April 20, 1900
Hamburg, Germany, April 19, 1891
Bonn, Germany, May 23, 1887
Braunau Am Inn, Austria, April 20, 1889
What was the code name for the invasion of Africa?
Operation Overlord
Operation Anvil
Operation Avalanche
Operation Torch
What was 'Operation Millenium'?
1st.bombing of the Ploesti oilfields
Invasion of Italy
The first 1,000 bomber raid
Invasion of Germany
On what date did the Allied invasion of France occur?
June 6, 1944
June 8, 1945
June 4, 1944
July 6, 1944
What was the name of the ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat that helped bring the United States into WW II?
SS Lusitainia
SS New York
SS Erethusa
SS Athenia
What claim to infamy is acredited to Alois Schicklgruber?
Geman master spy
German U-boat ace
He is Adolph Hitler's father
German army General
How many beaches were earmarked for the invading Allied troops on D-Day?
five
six
four
three
What was the name of the first jet propelled fighter to fight in WW II?
Fokker-265
Me-336
Me-262
Junkers-47
Who was the overall commander of all Allied forces at the war's end?
General Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
General Bradley
Archibald Wavell
How may years did the Second World War last (from the day war was declared on Germany, to the end of hostilities with Japan)?
October 30, 1939 - July 30, 1945
August 31, 1938 - August 23, 1945
September 3, 1939 - September 2, 1945
September 23, 1939 - September 3, 1945
Which battle below took place near a spot known as Lunga Point?
Pearl Harbor
Leyte Gulf
Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
The last defensive line established by Germany across the Italian peninsula was known as...
The Caesar Line
The Gustav Line
The Gothic Line
The Arno Line
Which statement below is true about the US 13th Airborne Division's service in Europe?
They were the only airborne division in Europe made up entirely of African Americans.
They suffered 90 percent casulties after walking into an ambush at the Hurtgen Forest.
They were the only American division in Europe that never saw action.
They were dropped behind the Rhine to secure the Remagen bridgehead.
Who wrote the post-WWII book 'Panzer Leader'?
Heinz Guderian
Paul Hausser
Erwin Romel
Friedrich Von Paulus
The German word 'panzer' means...
Tank
Armored
Motorized
Steel
Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden, and V.M. Molotov all had a part in which one of the following events...
The Moscow Conference
Drafting the Murmansk Compromise
Signing of the Yalta Protocals
The Yakoff Agreement
What do each of the following have in common: Konstantin von Neurath, Reinhard Heydrich, and Karl Herman Frank?
They have nothing in common.
They succeeded each other as Reich Protector of Bohemia-Moravia.
They co-authored the Wannsee Conference proposal that lead to the final solution.
They were all awarded the Knight's Cross with oakleaves eventhough none of them ever saw combat.
The 'Fighting Lady' was the nickname of the...
USS Saratoga
USS Lexington
USS Yorktown
USS Bunker Hill
The Battle of the Coral Sea took place because...
US and Japanese forces ran into each other by accident.
The allies were trying to prevent an invasion of Port Moresby.
The British insisted that the US join them in achieving a much needed victory in the Pacific.
The Japanese knew from message intercepts that the US fleet would be in the Coral Sea.
Which of the following was NOT the code name for an electronic warfare project during WWII?
Jasmine
Knickebein
Huff-Duff
Herald
World War II started with the German invasion of Poland on this date:
March 3, 1940
August 11, 1939
Septemer 1, 1939
November 23, 1939
Adolf Hitler's aborted plan to invade Great Britain was called:
The Schlieffen Plan
The Kraftwerk Offensive
Operation Bismark
Operation Sealion
This man was head of Germany's Luftwaffe:
Herman Goering
Hans Eichelberger
Heinrich Himmler
Peter Botha
The United States equipped some of its servicemen with BAR Guns. BAR stood for:
Ballistic Ammunition Rifle
Browning Automatic Rifle
Ballistic Automatic Reloader
Bren Automatic Repeater
What German ship was lost in the Battle of the River Plate?
Hipper
Admiral Graf Spee
Deutschland
Bismark
This was the first naval battle fought solely between aircraft carriers:
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Battle of Jutland
Battle of the Coral Sea
This last battle of World War II was fought on this island:
Iwo Jima
Singapore
Guadalcanal
Okinawa
Hopelessly outnumbered Canadian troops surrendered this Crown Colony to the Japanese on Chrismas Day 1941:
Guadalcanal
Singapore
Hong Kong
Malaysia
This German tank was the heaviest of the war:
Panzer Mk. IV
Elefant
Hummel
Tiger II
The American atomic bomb development program was nicknamed:
The Philadelphia Experiment
The Oppenheimer Project
The Starshell Program
The Manhattan Project
This country's forces fought and won the Battle For Berlin, bringing an end to the war in Europe:
Great Britain
Canada
Russia
United States
The Japanese built the two biggest battleships of World War II. One was called the Yamato, the other was called the?
Musashi
Mikuma
Migumo
Hiryu
On D-Day, which beach did the Canadians come ashore on?
Omaha
Sword
Juno
Utah
What was the nickname of the Grumman F6F fighter plane?
Spitfire
Hellcat
Butcherbird
Avenger
Who was "The Last Fuhrer"?
Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler
Admiral Karl Donitz
Oberstgruppenfuhrer Otto Ohlendorf
Reichminister Adolf Eichmann
On October 31 1941, weeks before a declaration of war, a US Navy Destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat. What was the name of the US Destroyer?
USS Reuben James
USS Breckinridge
USS Greer
USS Lawrence