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10-02-2004, 11:20 AM
TITL: WWII
COMP: Mr. Katz
'General WWII
What treaty ending WWI was a cause of German resentment before WWII?
Treaty of Paris
*Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Ghent
Geneva Conference
?The Treaty of Versailles placed sole blame on Germany for starting WWI and imposed reparations that Germany was unable to pay.
What ineffective German government was headed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler by 1933?
Reichstag Republic
Federal Republic of Germany
The Bundesrat
*Weimar Republic
?The Weimar Repulbic saw the fair (and subsequent strongarm takeover) election of Hitler.
What German speaking region of Czechoslovakia did Hitler desire by the end of the 1930's?
Alsace
Bavaria
Lorraine
*Sudetenland
?Hitler took the Sudetenland claiming ethnic Germans were being mistreated.
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
?Daladier went with Chamberlain on the mission prompting Churchill's remark, 'Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor, they chose dishonor.'
What American staff officer oversaw the plan to rebuild the war torn Western Europe?
*Marshall
Patton
Bradly
Eisenhower
?George C. Marshall, a Virginia Military Institute educated US Army general planned the rebuilding of Europe.
Which of these WWII participants did not figure into the splitting of post WWII Germany?
*Italy
United States
Britain
Russia
?In 1943 Italy changed sides . . .
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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Eisenhower
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
?The landings were originally known as Overlord, but in September 1943 the codename was changed to Neptune, and Overlord from then on was used to refer to the general Allied strategy in northwestern Europe.
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
?Nagasaki was not the original target - the intended target city of Kokura was passed over as the bomber was under orders to attack only a clear target and at the time, the city was shrouded in smog. Nagasaki was the first alternative target city.
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 Siege of Leningrad, lasting from September of 1941 until January of 1944, was the longest (known) siege of a city since Biblical times. Death toll estimates range from 600,000 to over one million for city inhabitants.
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
?Molotov announced the commencement of hostilities with Germany to the Russian people. Stalin did not make a public speech until July 3, 1941. He spoke amid tears, as if he'd had a nervous breakdown. In their memoirs, both Krushchev and General Zhukov describe how Stalin was almost paralyzed by the news, having not expected a German attack before 1943. Stalin's refusal to act on the news of the German invasion played a large role in the German's early rout of the Soviet Army.
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.
?The Soviet Union managed to successfully relocate over 2500 factories before Germany gained control of western Soviet territories. The salvaging of industrial potential played a huge role in the Soviet's later ability to outproduce the Germans in tanks, armaments and airplanes by the end of the war.
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
?Having become disillusioned with Stalin's regime because of the military purges of the 1930s, General Vlasov saw the war as a chance to free Russia from Stalinist oppression. In 1942, he organized an army to fight on the side of the Soviet Union. He was captured at war's end by the Americans and turned over to the Soviets. He was executed in 1946.
True or false? Stalin was evacuated from Moscow on the eve of the German invasion of the city.
True
*False
?Although the government was evacuated to Kuibyshev, Stalin chose to remain in Moscow. Historians argue that it was Stalin's continued presence in the city which helped stiffen resistance to the German offensive.
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
?As the war progressed, Stalin realized increasingly that an appeal to Communist ideology alone would not motivate the people to support the war. To gain the support of the Russian Orthodox Church for the war effort, Stalin restored the Holy Synod and allowed churches to reopen. Metropolitan Sergius, the head of the Russian Church, delivered the church support Stalin desperately needed to galvanize the people.
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
?Order 270 was issued in July of 1941. Stalin's own son, Yakov, was to fall victim to this order. Shortly after his capture in July, Yakov's wife was arrested and sentenced to two years in a labor camp. In addition, Stalin refused a German offer to exchange Yakov for a high-ranking German officer. Yakov died in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1943.
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
?In two days, in a ravine at Babi Yar, outside Kiev, 33,771 Jews were killed. But this was not the largest slaughter. At Odessa, an estimated 75,000 to 80,000 Jews were killed by Germany's Romanian allies and the local Einsatzgruppe.
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.
?The de-Nazification of Germany was the one thing that the Allies could all agree on. Other issues which affected relations included Great Britain's and American's repeated postponement of a cross Channel invasion, and the personality clash between Truman and Stalin after Roosevelt's death.
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
?On the morning of May 7, 1945, General Jodl was authorized by Admiral Doenitz, Hitler's successor, to sign a surrender with General Eisenhower in Reims, France. The Soviet representative was General Susloparov. Susloparov was caught offguard; he had no instructions from Moscow. But if he did not sign, he risked a German surrender without Soviet participation. Susloparov signed under the condition that Moscow would be able to repeat the ceremony if desired. Stalin was infuriated. He accused his Western allies of having concluded a "shady deal." A second ceremony was held on May 9, 1945 in Berlin.
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
?Allied soldiers reported that this gun made a sound like that of ripping linoleum. The gun fired so fast, in fact that each shot happened too fast for the human ear to process it individually!
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
?Allied soldiers highly valued the venerable MP-40 and would gladly have traded in their Thompsons and Stens for one of the weapons.
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
?The Fallschirmjaeger (German paratroops) were the toughest fighters on the German front, they needed a weapon similar to the American BAR. Something that would provide the firepower of the MG42 with the weight of a service rifle. The FG42 fired a full sized rifle round, this combined with its light weight made it a handful when firing on full automatic.
What was the Luger's successor?
Walther PPK
*Walther P38
Browning High Power
Webley Mark IV
?The Luger was a great if not incredibly reliable weapon, however it was never made in large numbers. So it's successor, the P38 was developed. With eight 9mm parabellum rounds in the butt, compact size, reliability (unusual for a German pistol) and simplicity all made the P38 a wonderful little pistol.
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
?The 7.92mm bullet packed a larger punch than any of the other service calibers of the Axis or Allied nations.
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
?Juin was later made a Marshal of France by de Gaulle.
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
?Mitscher also commanded forces at Guadalcanal, the Philippine Sea, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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
?Manstein was regarded by many as the greatest German field commander of the war, and when he was finally removed by Hitler his removal certainly aided Russia rather than Germany.
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
?Kimmel was held to blame for not being prepared for an attack, and immediatley removed from command and put in for retirement.
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
?Chuikov was later made a Marshal of the Soviet Union and commanded all Soviet forces in Germany following the war.
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
?Galland managed to inspire the men that he commanded by personally shooting down 104 aircraft. He was also one of the few officers in the Luftwaffe who had the courage to stand up to Goering.
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
?'Smiling Al' ran a brilliant defensive campaign with very little in the way of supplies and support to slow down the Allied forces in Italy.
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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Buckner
Simon Buckner
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
?Goering committed suicide in his prison cell hours before he was due to be executed. He had indeed been ace fighter pilot in WWI and at least a few of those medals he loved to wear had been earned ...
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.
?Eichmann did escape from an American internment camp and took refuge in Argentina until he was tracked down there in 1960 by the Israeli secret service, which abducted him. He was taken to Israel, where he was tried for crimes against humanity, convicted and executed.
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.
?He was captured by British forces in 1945, but not recognized. He complained about not receiving VIP treatment and revealed his identity. On discovering, to his amazement, that he was indeed of the highest interest, but as a war criminal and not a respected VIP, he immediately committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule.
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.
?Goebbels had a crippled foot as a result of a childhood case of polio. After Hitler's suicide, he had his 6 children poisoned and he and his wife shot by an SS guard.
Which of the following Nazis was Hitler's personal lawyer?
Martin Bormann
Klaus Barbie
*Hans Frank
Alois Brunner
?Frank was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to death by hanging.
Did Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun ever marry?
*Yes
No
?On April 29, 1945, they were married. They both committed suicide the following day.
Which of the following was referred to as the "Angel of Death"?
Hans Munch
Heinrich Himmler
*Josef Mengele
Adolf Hitler
?Dr. Josef Mengele was posted to Auschwitz where he was part of the 'selection' process--deciding who did and who did not go to the gas chambers. He performed many unthinkable experiments on his 'human guinea pigs'. His main interests were in genetic abnormalities and twins.
Albert Speer was what by trade?
A travelling salesman
*An architect
A lawyer
An accountant
?Speer designed monuments and decorations for Nazi rallies. At the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1946, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He published the bestseller 'Inside the Third Reich' in 1970.
This SS man was nicknamed the 'Butcher of Lyon'. Who was he?
Hans Fritzsche
Alfred Jodl
*Klaus Barbie
Walter Funk
?Barbie was posted to Lyons, France, in 1942-44. His job was to help destroy the resistance in France. He was notoriously cruel and sadistic. Captured by the Americans after the war, he did a deal with the CIA. He gave them information (quite worthless) and the 'firm' helped him escape to Latin America.
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
?Raeder resigned his position in 1943 and was replaced by Karl Doenitz. At the Nuremberg Trials, he was sentenced to life imprisonment but released in 1955.
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
?The first allied atomic bomb to be used against an enemy target was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th, 1945, between 240,000 and 270,000 citizens died as a result.
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
?Luckily this operation was abandoned and the task of subdugating the British was given to the Luftwaffe.
What was the German code name for the summer offensive against Russia in 1941?
*Operation Barbarossa
Operation Danube
Operation Cossack
Operation Bismark
?During World War 2 over 20,000,000 citizens of the USSR were killed.
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
?The Germans were deceived by this operation and diverted a large number of their troops to the Calais area.
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
?General Clark accepted the final German surrender in Italy in May 1945.
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
?The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first Naval battle in history where the opposing fleets never sighted each other. It was fought entirely between ships and aircraft.
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
?This failed allied operation was an attempt to shorten the war, by going through 'Hitler's back door'.
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
?Hitler's last great gamble, an attempt to break through the allied lines in The Ardennes which was begun on 16 December 1944.
What Australian city was bombed more heavily than Pearl Harbor?
Sydney
*Darwin
Melbourne
Perth
?Darwin was bombed 63 times over a period of 21 months. The most devastating attack occurred on February 19th, 1942.
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
?The Japanese attempted to draw the US Pacific Fleet into the open sea and destroy it. The plan failed and this battle marked the end of Japan's Naval dominance in the Pacific.
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
?Dresden had been left virtually untouched by allied bombing, because of it's lack of strategic targets. During these three days up to 200,000 people perished in the flames, mostly civilians.
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
?The Battle of the Kokoda Trail lasted six gruelling months and was the first land defeat suffered by the Japanese during World War 2.
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
?Only eight minutes into the attack on the Bismarck by the British warships Hood and Prince of Wales, the Hood was hit amidships by a shell from the Bismarck. It exploded and sank in less than five minutes.
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
?During the six years of World War 2 approximately 60 million people, both service personel and civilians were killed.
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
?Danzig was made an international city to give Poland access to the sea. It cut Prussia off from the rest of Germany, which caused bitter resentment among Germans towards the Western powers. Hitler was to play on this resentment in his rise to power.
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
?France frantically went about trying to guarantee her own security in Europe at the end of WWI. She was knocked back by America and Britain so she formed this military alliance in 1921.
On what date was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
June 28, 1918
November 28, 1918
July 28, 1919
*June 28, 1919
?Most historians are of the opinion that in effect, the treaty solved absolutely nothing. Even some people living at the time prophesized that there would be another war in 20 years. An example of this was the famous 'Peace and future cannon fodder' cartoon by British cartoonist Will Dyson.
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
?This article caused major arguments between powers. All nations regarded 'a level consistent with national safety' to be a level at which they possessed more arms than their neighbors or potential enemies. No wonder disarmament failed in the interwar years.
In what year was the Treaty of Rapallo signed between Germany and the Soviet Union?
*1922
1939
1919
1926
?This treaty allowed Germany to test its arms inside the USSR. Germany was the first country to actually recognize the new Communist country.
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
?They helped Wilson write most of the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. They thought it would bring peace; Germans called it a 'diktat' or a dictated peace.
In what year did Germany enter the League of Nations?
1939
1933
*1926
1945
?One of the problems with the League was that not all of the big powers were in it at the same time.
In what year was the Treaty of Locarno signed?
*1925
1922
1919
1929
?The Locarno Honeymoon took place in Switzerland and was attended by the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Britain; Briand, Stressemann and Chamberlain respectively.
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
?It plastered the Western borders, but not Germany's eastern ones. This gave Germans the idea that long term revisionism in the east would be acceptable to Western Powers.
What year did Mussolini and the Fascist Party in Italy come to power?
*1922
1929
1933
1923
?Mussolini used to be a hard-liner socialist, believe it or not!
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
?It did renounce war as a means of national policy, but wasn't worth the paper it was written on. Nations simply said that they were fighting wars for 'defensive' purposes. The first to break the pact was Japan.
What year did Japan invade Manchuria?
1943
1939
*1931
1941
?The invasion of Manchuria turned into a full scale war with China in 1937 and is seen by many as the start of World War II.
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
?It turned order into Chaos - particularly in Germany.
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 Bolsheviks set this up to communicate with Communists abroad and spread the revolution all over the world. You know: "workers of the world unite" and all that jazz.
"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
?Churchill said it - but he had the benefit of hindsight.
What year did Adolf Hitler come to power in Germany?
*1933
1939
1929
1934
?Hitler was made Chancellor on January 30th, 1933. Von Papen and other conservatives in Germany thought that he would be "controllable"; poor fools.
How many seats did the Nazi Party gain in the Reichstag in the March 1933 elections in Germany?
*288
196
107
169
?288. This was still not a total majority - with the Nazis only getting just over 43 per cent of the vote. They formed a coalition with the Center Party and the National Party to take office.
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
?The Nazis blamed the fire on the Communists. Hitler was then given the powers of a dictator to "protect the people and the state".
In what year did Hitler re-militarise the Rhineland?
1939
1938
*1936
1932
?This was one of the biggest gambles that Hitler took in peace-time. Both Britain and France were still stronger than Germany in 1936, and could have stopped Hitler from marching battalions into the Rhineland, but they chose not to.
In what year did the Soviet Union enter the League of Nations?
1922
*1934
1926
1928
?This meant nothing though. After the depression, the League was basically powerless to stop aggression.
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 one last desparate attempt by Chamberlain to avoid war in 1938.
The Munich agreement ceded what to Germany?
Upper Silesia
*The Sudetenland
Alsace-Lorraine
Czechoslovakia
?Hitler gained 3 million 'new' Germans into the Reich as well as the Czech Skoda Arms Factory.
In what month and year did Anschluss take place?
*March 1938
September 1936
March 1939
September 1939
?This gave Hitler even more power and more people. This made his "Third Reich" absolutely huge.
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
?You should know this one!
When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed?
September 1, 1939
August 25, 1939
*August 23, 1939
August 20, 1939
?Left and Right come together. This shocked the world. It gave Hitler the guarantee that he'd been looking for: to avoid war on two fronts. This was broken in 1941 when Hitler began one of the most famous conquests in history and invaded the Soviet Union.
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
?Admiral Lutjens was 52 when he went to his death on the Bismarck. He along with over 2,000 officers and men, as well as prize crews and the admirals staff aboard.
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
?On October 13th, 1939, Prien sank the Battleship Royal Oak at anchor in Scapa Flow getting through a gap in the defences. Ironically the spot he used was scheduled to have another block ship sunk in the same passage the next day. Royal Oak, built in 1914-16, 600 ft long, 8-15' main Guns in 4 turrets. Top speed of 20 Knots took part in the battle of Jutland. Crew of 1,100 was hit by 1 torpedo that did slight dammage then 3 more from a second salvo which caused it to sink in 11 minutes, taking over 800 of her crew to their deaths.
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
?The Graf Zepplin was laid down but never completed as Hitler scrapped the program to divert the steel to building other armaments.
What is the name of the TOP flying ace of the Second World War?
Gerhard Barkhorn
*Erich Hartmann
Gunther Rall
Otto Kittel
?Hartmann downed 352 planes during WW II, the highest number of any nation in the world. A great number of these victories were during the Russian campaigns.
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
?USS Indianapolis was sunk on its return trip from delivering components of the Atomic bombs. Because it was on its secret mission, no one knew it was missing for a few days after she went down. Many who survived the sinking lost their lives to the great numbers of sharks in the area.
What was the name of the bomber that dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Enola
Alamo
Retribution
*Enola Gay
?Paul Warfield Tibbets piloted the Enola Gay and dropped the first Atomic Bomb on August 6th, 1945 on Hiroshima, Japan killing 60,000 to 70,000. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing about 40,000, convincing Japan to surrender. Unconditionally.
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
?Film star Audie Murphy was awarded 28 medals during WW II including the Medal Of Honor.
What was the name of the first "post Dreadnaught" Battleship in the U.S.Navy?
USS Maine
*USS Indiana
USS Texas
USS Arkansas
?Commissioned November 2, 1895, used as target ship . . . sunk at Tangier Sound (Chesepeake Bay) during aerial bomb tests November 1920.
What was the name of the US navy's first Aircraft Carrier?
*USS Langley
USS Hornet
USS Enterprise
USS Saratoga
?Langley was hit by Japanese planes in 1942. Too severely damaged by the planes, she was susequently sunk by her escort.
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
?Isoruku Yamamoto was the best naval mind in the Japanese Empire. He was the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Brilliant and aggressive, he commanded and received respect and obedience from his juniors. He was killed when his plane was shot down by p-38 Lightnings on April 14, 1943.
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
?"The Longest Day" was a spectacular movie with such stars as John Wayne, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Red Buttons, Henry Fonda, Peter Lawford, Robert Mitchum, Edmond O'Brian, Robert Wagner, Rod Steiger and Paul Anka.
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
?HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen on May 24, 1941, HMS Prince Of Wales was badly damaged. The Prince Of Wales and the Battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by Japanese air attack on December 10, 1941.
To whom did Adolf Hitler dictate the transcript of "Mein Kampf"?
Hermann Goring
Martin Bormann
*Rudolph Hess
Ernst Rohm
?While in prison in 1923, Hess took dictation for Hitler's book "Mein Kampf". He was one of Hitlers earliest and most fervent followers. On April 21, 1933 he was made Deputy Fuhrer. He later fell out of favor to Martin Bormann and trying to regain Hitlers approval, he flew to England on a peace mission trying to convince the British that Hitler wanted only more "Lebensraum" or living space and they need not continue this war. He failed and remained in custody the rest of the war. Sentenced to life in prison at Nurnberg, he committed suicide in 1987 at age 92.
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
?Adolf Hitler's father Alois was married twice and had many affairs before marrying Clara Polzl, Adolf's Mother.
What was the code name for the invasion of Africa?
Operation Overlord
Operation Anvil
Operation Avalanche
*Operation Torch
?The beginning of the end for Rommel and his Africa Korps.
What was 'Operation Millenium'?
1st.bombing of the Ploesti oilfields
Invasion of Italy
*The first 1,000 bomber raid
Invasion of Germany
?May 30-31, 1942 the Allies sent 1,000 bombers to the city of Cologne and dropped 1,455 tons on bombs that destroyed 18,440 buildings including over 13,000 homes and 250 factories.
On what date did the Allied invasion of France occur?
*June 6, 1944
June 8, 1945
June 4, 1944
July 6, 1944
?Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy was originally set to go June 4, 1944 but bad weather delayed it.
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
?September 3, 1939 Lemp commanding U-30 sank the Athenia apparently "mistaking" it for an armed merchant cruiser. Over 300 of the 1,000 people on board were Americans heading home from the war.
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
?Alois Schicklgruber is the actual name of Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler's father. He was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. His uncle Johann Georg Hidler convinced Alois to change it to Hiedler to carry on the family name. At the time it was recorded however, it was written Hitler instead. (Can you imagine all the Nazis chanting "Heil Schicklgruber???").
How many beaches were earmarked for the invading Allied troops on D-Day?
*five
six
four
three
?Sword, Juno, Omaha, Gold and Utah were the code names for the Normandy beaches.
What was the name of the first jet propelled fighter to fight in WW II?
Fokker-265
Me-336
*Me-262
Junkers-47
?The Messerschmidt 262 did see battle in WW II and was faster than anything the Allies had, but never was produced in numbers big enough to change the course of the war.
Who was the overall commander of all Allied forces at the war's end?
*General Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
General Bradley
Archibald Wavell
?Eisenhower was declared the Supreme commander of all Allied forces. He later went on to become President of The United States.
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
?Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939 and the Japanese surrendered on August 14, 1945.
Which battle below took place near a spot known as Lunga Point?
Pearl Harbor
Leyte Gulf
*Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
?Elements of the US 1st Marine Division landed on Guadalcanal August 7th, 1942, near the site called Lunga Point.
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
?Set up behind the Arno River, the Gothic Line, the final German defensive line in Italy, was hit by the British 8th Army in August, 1943, and was eventually penetrated by combined forces of the British 8th and American 5th Armies.
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.
?It was the US 17th Airborne that took part in operation Varsity to support the crossing of the Rhine River. And, as far as I know, no division in Europe ever sustained 90 percent casulties, nor were there ever any all black airborne divisions. The 13th was simply kept in reserve, or scheduled for drops that didn't take place, so they ended the war never being in a position where they could be committed to battle. (Who says 13 is an unlucky number.)
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
?The Moscow Conference took place on October 19th through 30th, 1943. Among other things, it resulted in the signing of the Joint Four-Power Declaration (signed also by China's ambassador to the Soviet Union) that stated the Allies resolve to press the war on Germany to unconditional surrender, and it also set the groundwork for the creation of the post-war United Nations. As far as I know there never were anything called the Yalta Protocals, the Murmansk Compromise, or the Yakoff Agreement (I made them up).
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.
?Heydrich replaced Neurath after the latter stepped down for health reasons. Neurath was sentenced at Nuremberg to 15 years in prison but was released, again for health reasons, in 1954. After Heydrich's death in Prague on June 4th, 1942, (the result of an attack by Czeck resistance men parachuted in from Britain) he was succeeded by Frank. Frank ordered the complete obliteration of the Czech village of Lidice, and all of its inhabitants, in retalliation for Heydrich's death, and was sentnced to be publically hanged by a Czech post-war court on May 22nd, 1946, for this and other attorcities attributed to him in his stint as Protector of Bohemia-Moravia.
The 'Fighting Lady' was the nickname of the...
USS Saratoga
USS Lexington
*USS Yorktown
USS Bunker Hill
?Yorktown was known as the 'Fighting Lady' and Lexington was known as 'Lady Lex'. The Saratoga was known as 'Sara', but I don't know if the Bunker Hill had a nickname.
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.
?The Japanese operation called 'Mo' was intended to seize Port Moresby and carry out landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Port Moresby was intended as a site for air bases from which the Japanese could attack Australia and, hopefully, knock her out of the war. The Japanese suspected (but did NOT know from message intercepts) that the US would move to head off this strike, and their intention was to trap and destroy this force at sea. Although the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in history where the oposing forces never came within visual sighting of one and other, turned into a tactical victory for Japan it was also a strategic defeat for her as well (since it forced the Port Moresby attack force to wirthdraw and denied Japan the opportunity to seriously threaten Australia).
Which of the following was NOT the code name for an electronic warfare project during WWII?
*Jasmine
Knickebein
Huff-Duff
Herald
?Huff-Duff (or HF-DF) was a British direction finder used to locate German submarines at sea by their radio transmissions (it was more successful then radar in that role and the Germans never knew it was being used against them). Knickebein was a German split beam position locator for bombers (the plane flew along one beam and dropped its bombs when it contacted the second beam over the target). Herald was an American fixed sonar system used to find and track submarines attempting to enter a harbor. As far as I know, the code name Jasmine never existed (or at least it was never used in an electronic warfare context).
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
?US Navy Destroyers escorted convoys through the Western Atlantic 'Neutrality Zone' and identical Royal Navy Town class destroyers escorted the convoys through the Eastern Atlantic to England. A ships silhouette viewed through a U-Boat periscope was of little use to determine the ships Nationality under these circumstances. On October 31 1941, the German U-552 torpedoed and sunk the USS Reuben James DD-245.
COMP: Mr. Katz
'General WWII
What treaty ending WWI was a cause of German resentment before WWII?
Treaty of Paris
*Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Ghent
Geneva Conference
?The Treaty of Versailles placed sole blame on Germany for starting WWI and imposed reparations that Germany was unable to pay.
What ineffective German government was headed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler by 1933?
Reichstag Republic
Federal Republic of Germany
The Bundesrat
*Weimar Republic
?The Weimar Repulbic saw the fair (and subsequent strongarm takeover) election of Hitler.
What German speaking region of Czechoslovakia did Hitler desire by the end of the 1930's?
Alsace
Bavaria
Lorraine
*Sudetenland
?Hitler took the Sudetenland claiming ethnic Germans were being mistreated.
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
?Daladier went with Chamberlain on the mission prompting Churchill's remark, 'Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor, they chose dishonor.'
What American staff officer oversaw the plan to rebuild the war torn Western Europe?
*Marshall
Patton
Bradly
Eisenhower
?George C. Marshall, a Virginia Military Institute educated US Army general planned the rebuilding of Europe.
Which of these WWII participants did not figure into the splitting of post WWII Germany?
*Italy
United States
Britain
Russia
?In 1943 Italy changed sides . . .
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)
[BL]
Eisenhower
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
?The landings were originally known as Overlord, but in September 1943 the codename was changed to Neptune, and Overlord from then on was used to refer to the general Allied strategy in northwestern Europe.
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
?Nagasaki was not the original target - the intended target city of Kokura was passed over as the bomber was under orders to attack only a clear target and at the time, the city was shrouded in smog. Nagasaki was the first alternative target city.
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 Siege of Leningrad, lasting from September of 1941 until January of 1944, was the longest (known) siege of a city since Biblical times. Death toll estimates range from 600,000 to over one million for city inhabitants.
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
?Molotov announced the commencement of hostilities with Germany to the Russian people. Stalin did not make a public speech until July 3, 1941. He spoke amid tears, as if he'd had a nervous breakdown. In their memoirs, both Krushchev and General Zhukov describe how Stalin was almost paralyzed by the news, having not expected a German attack before 1943. Stalin's refusal to act on the news of the German invasion played a large role in the German's early rout of the Soviet Army.
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.
?The Soviet Union managed to successfully relocate over 2500 factories before Germany gained control of western Soviet territories. The salvaging of industrial potential played a huge role in the Soviet's later ability to outproduce the Germans in tanks, armaments and airplanes by the end of the war.
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
?Having become disillusioned with Stalin's regime because of the military purges of the 1930s, General Vlasov saw the war as a chance to free Russia from Stalinist oppression. In 1942, he organized an army to fight on the side of the Soviet Union. He was captured at war's end by the Americans and turned over to the Soviets. He was executed in 1946.
True or false? Stalin was evacuated from Moscow on the eve of the German invasion of the city.
True
*False
?Although the government was evacuated to Kuibyshev, Stalin chose to remain in Moscow. Historians argue that it was Stalin's continued presence in the city which helped stiffen resistance to the German offensive.
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
?As the war progressed, Stalin realized increasingly that an appeal to Communist ideology alone would not motivate the people to support the war. To gain the support of the Russian Orthodox Church for the war effort, Stalin restored the Holy Synod and allowed churches to reopen. Metropolitan Sergius, the head of the Russian Church, delivered the church support Stalin desperately needed to galvanize the people.
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
?Order 270 was issued in July of 1941. Stalin's own son, Yakov, was to fall victim to this order. Shortly after his capture in July, Yakov's wife was arrested and sentenced to two years in a labor camp. In addition, Stalin refused a German offer to exchange Yakov for a high-ranking German officer. Yakov died in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1943.
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
?In two days, in a ravine at Babi Yar, outside Kiev, 33,771 Jews were killed. But this was not the largest slaughter. At Odessa, an estimated 75,000 to 80,000 Jews were killed by Germany's Romanian allies and the local Einsatzgruppe.
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.
?The de-Nazification of Germany was the one thing that the Allies could all agree on. Other issues which affected relations included Great Britain's and American's repeated postponement of a cross Channel invasion, and the personality clash between Truman and Stalin after Roosevelt's death.
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
?On the morning of May 7, 1945, General Jodl was authorized by Admiral Doenitz, Hitler's successor, to sign a surrender with General Eisenhower in Reims, France. The Soviet representative was General Susloparov. Susloparov was caught offguard; he had no instructions from Moscow. But if he did not sign, he risked a German surrender without Soviet participation. Susloparov signed under the condition that Moscow would be able to repeat the ceremony if desired. Stalin was infuriated. He accused his Western allies of having concluded a "shady deal." A second ceremony was held on May 9, 1945 in Berlin.
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
?Allied soldiers reported that this gun made a sound like that of ripping linoleum. The gun fired so fast, in fact that each shot happened too fast for the human ear to process it individually!
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
?Allied soldiers highly valued the venerable MP-40 and would gladly have traded in their Thompsons and Stens for one of the weapons.
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
?The Fallschirmjaeger (German paratroops) were the toughest fighters on the German front, they needed a weapon similar to the American BAR. Something that would provide the firepower of the MG42 with the weight of a service rifle. The FG42 fired a full sized rifle round, this combined with its light weight made it a handful when firing on full automatic.
What was the Luger's successor?
Walther PPK
*Walther P38
Browning High Power
Webley Mark IV
?The Luger was a great if not incredibly reliable weapon, however it was never made in large numbers. So it's successor, the P38 was developed. With eight 9mm parabellum rounds in the butt, compact size, reliability (unusual for a German pistol) and simplicity all made the P38 a wonderful little pistol.
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
?The 7.92mm bullet packed a larger punch than any of the other service calibers of the Axis or Allied nations.
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
?Juin was later made a Marshal of France by de Gaulle.
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
?Mitscher also commanded forces at Guadalcanal, the Philippine Sea, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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
?Manstein was regarded by many as the greatest German field commander of the war, and when he was finally removed by Hitler his removal certainly aided Russia rather than Germany.
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
?Kimmel was held to blame for not being prepared for an attack, and immediatley removed from command and put in for retirement.
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
?Chuikov was later made a Marshal of the Soviet Union and commanded all Soviet forces in Germany following the war.
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
?Galland managed to inspire the men that he commanded by personally shooting down 104 aircraft. He was also one of the few officers in the Luftwaffe who had the courage to stand up to Goering.
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
?'Smiling Al' ran a brilliant defensive campaign with very little in the way of supplies and support to slow down the Allied forces in Italy.
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.
[BL]
Buckner
Simon Buckner
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
?Goering committed suicide in his prison cell hours before he was due to be executed. He had indeed been ace fighter pilot in WWI and at least a few of those medals he loved to wear had been earned ...
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.
?Eichmann did escape from an American internment camp and took refuge in Argentina until he was tracked down there in 1960 by the Israeli secret service, which abducted him. He was taken to Israel, where he was tried for crimes against humanity, convicted and executed.
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.
?He was captured by British forces in 1945, but not recognized. He complained about not receiving VIP treatment and revealed his identity. On discovering, to his amazement, that he was indeed of the highest interest, but as a war criminal and not a respected VIP, he immediately committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule.
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.
?Goebbels had a crippled foot as a result of a childhood case of polio. After Hitler's suicide, he had his 6 children poisoned and he and his wife shot by an SS guard.
Which of the following Nazis was Hitler's personal lawyer?
Martin Bormann
Klaus Barbie
*Hans Frank
Alois Brunner
?Frank was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to death by hanging.
Did Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun ever marry?
*Yes
No
?On April 29, 1945, they were married. They both committed suicide the following day.
Which of the following was referred to as the "Angel of Death"?
Hans Munch
Heinrich Himmler
*Josef Mengele
Adolf Hitler
?Dr. Josef Mengele was posted to Auschwitz where he was part of the 'selection' process--deciding who did and who did not go to the gas chambers. He performed many unthinkable experiments on his 'human guinea pigs'. His main interests were in genetic abnormalities and twins.
Albert Speer was what by trade?
A travelling salesman
*An architect
A lawyer
An accountant
?Speer designed monuments and decorations for Nazi rallies. At the Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1946, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He published the bestseller 'Inside the Third Reich' in 1970.
This SS man was nicknamed the 'Butcher of Lyon'. Who was he?
Hans Fritzsche
Alfred Jodl
*Klaus Barbie
Walter Funk
?Barbie was posted to Lyons, France, in 1942-44. His job was to help destroy the resistance in France. He was notoriously cruel and sadistic. Captured by the Americans after the war, he did a deal with the CIA. He gave them information (quite worthless) and the 'firm' helped him escape to Latin America.
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
?Raeder resigned his position in 1943 and was replaced by Karl Doenitz. At the Nuremberg Trials, he was sentenced to life imprisonment but released in 1955.
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
?The first allied atomic bomb to be used against an enemy target was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th, 1945, between 240,000 and 270,000 citizens died as a result.
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
?Luckily this operation was abandoned and the task of subdugating the British was given to the Luftwaffe.
What was the German code name for the summer offensive against Russia in 1941?
*Operation Barbarossa
Operation Danube
Operation Cossack
Operation Bismark
?During World War 2 over 20,000,000 citizens of the USSR were killed.
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
?The Germans were deceived by this operation and diverted a large number of their troops to the Calais area.
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
?General Clark accepted the final German surrender in Italy in May 1945.
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
?The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first Naval battle in history where the opposing fleets never sighted each other. It was fought entirely between ships and aircraft.
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
?This failed allied operation was an attempt to shorten the war, by going through 'Hitler's back door'.
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
?Hitler's last great gamble, an attempt to break through the allied lines in The Ardennes which was begun on 16 December 1944.
What Australian city was bombed more heavily than Pearl Harbor?
Sydney
*Darwin
Melbourne
Perth
?Darwin was bombed 63 times over a period of 21 months. The most devastating attack occurred on February 19th, 1942.
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
?The Japanese attempted to draw the US Pacific Fleet into the open sea and destroy it. The plan failed and this battle marked the end of Japan's Naval dominance in the Pacific.
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
?Dresden had been left virtually untouched by allied bombing, because of it's lack of strategic targets. During these three days up to 200,000 people perished in the flames, mostly civilians.
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
?The Battle of the Kokoda Trail lasted six gruelling months and was the first land defeat suffered by the Japanese during World War 2.
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
?Only eight minutes into the attack on the Bismarck by the British warships Hood and Prince of Wales, the Hood was hit amidships by a shell from the Bismarck. It exploded and sank in less than five minutes.
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
?During the six years of World War 2 approximately 60 million people, both service personel and civilians were killed.
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
?Danzig was made an international city to give Poland access to the sea. It cut Prussia off from the rest of Germany, which caused bitter resentment among Germans towards the Western powers. Hitler was to play on this resentment in his rise to power.
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
?France frantically went about trying to guarantee her own security in Europe at the end of WWI. She was knocked back by America and Britain so she formed this military alliance in 1921.
On what date was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
June 28, 1918
November 28, 1918
July 28, 1919
*June 28, 1919
?Most historians are of the opinion that in effect, the treaty solved absolutely nothing. Even some people living at the time prophesized that there would be another war in 20 years. An example of this was the famous 'Peace and future cannon fodder' cartoon by British cartoonist Will Dyson.
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
?This article caused major arguments between powers. All nations regarded 'a level consistent with national safety' to be a level at which they possessed more arms than their neighbors or potential enemies. No wonder disarmament failed in the interwar years.
In what year was the Treaty of Rapallo signed between Germany and the Soviet Union?
*1922
1939
1919
1926
?This treaty allowed Germany to test its arms inside the USSR. Germany was the first country to actually recognize the new Communist country.
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
?They helped Wilson write most of the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. They thought it would bring peace; Germans called it a 'diktat' or a dictated peace.
In what year did Germany enter the League of Nations?
1939
1933
*1926
1945
?One of the problems with the League was that not all of the big powers were in it at the same time.
In what year was the Treaty of Locarno signed?
*1925
1922
1919
1929
?The Locarno Honeymoon took place in Switzerland and was attended by the foreign ministers of France, Germany and Britain; Briand, Stressemann and Chamberlain respectively.
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
?It plastered the Western borders, but not Germany's eastern ones. This gave Germans the idea that long term revisionism in the east would be acceptable to Western Powers.
What year did Mussolini and the Fascist Party in Italy come to power?
*1922
1929
1933
1923
?Mussolini used to be a hard-liner socialist, believe it or not!
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
?It did renounce war as a means of national policy, but wasn't worth the paper it was written on. Nations simply said that they were fighting wars for 'defensive' purposes. The first to break the pact was Japan.
What year did Japan invade Manchuria?
1943
1939
*1931
1941
?The invasion of Manchuria turned into a full scale war with China in 1937 and is seen by many as the start of World War II.
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
?It turned order into Chaos - particularly in Germany.
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 Bolsheviks set this up to communicate with Communists abroad and spread the revolution all over the world. You know: "workers of the world unite" and all that jazz.
"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
?Churchill said it - but he had the benefit of hindsight.
What year did Adolf Hitler come to power in Germany?
*1933
1939
1929
1934
?Hitler was made Chancellor on January 30th, 1933. Von Papen and other conservatives in Germany thought that he would be "controllable"; poor fools.
How many seats did the Nazi Party gain in the Reichstag in the March 1933 elections in Germany?
*288
196
107
169
?288. This was still not a total majority - with the Nazis only getting just over 43 per cent of the vote. They formed a coalition with the Center Party and the National Party to take office.
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
?The Nazis blamed the fire on the Communists. Hitler was then given the powers of a dictator to "protect the people and the state".
In what year did Hitler re-militarise the Rhineland?
1939
1938
*1936
1932
?This was one of the biggest gambles that Hitler took in peace-time. Both Britain and France were still stronger than Germany in 1936, and could have stopped Hitler from marching battalions into the Rhineland, but they chose not to.
In what year did the Soviet Union enter the League of Nations?
1922
*1934
1926
1928
?This meant nothing though. After the depression, the League was basically powerless to stop aggression.
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 one last desparate attempt by Chamberlain to avoid war in 1938.
The Munich agreement ceded what to Germany?
Upper Silesia
*The Sudetenland
Alsace-Lorraine
Czechoslovakia
?Hitler gained 3 million 'new' Germans into the Reich as well as the Czech Skoda Arms Factory.
In what month and year did Anschluss take place?
*March 1938
September 1936
March 1939
September 1939
?This gave Hitler even more power and more people. This made his "Third Reich" absolutely huge.
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
?You should know this one!
When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed?
September 1, 1939
August 25, 1939
*August 23, 1939
August 20, 1939
?Left and Right come together. This shocked the world. It gave Hitler the guarantee that he'd been looking for: to avoid war on two fronts. This was broken in 1941 when Hitler began one of the most famous conquests in history and invaded the Soviet Union.
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
?Admiral Lutjens was 52 when he went to his death on the Bismarck. He along with over 2,000 officers and men, as well as prize crews and the admirals staff aboard.
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
?On October 13th, 1939, Prien sank the Battleship Royal Oak at anchor in Scapa Flow getting through a gap in the defences. Ironically the spot he used was scheduled to have another block ship sunk in the same passage the next day. Royal Oak, built in 1914-16, 600 ft long, 8-15' main Guns in 4 turrets. Top speed of 20 Knots took part in the battle of Jutland. Crew of 1,100 was hit by 1 torpedo that did slight dammage then 3 more from a second salvo which caused it to sink in 11 minutes, taking over 800 of her crew to their deaths.
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
?The Graf Zepplin was laid down but never completed as Hitler scrapped the program to divert the steel to building other armaments.
What is the name of the TOP flying ace of the Second World War?
Gerhard Barkhorn
*Erich Hartmann
Gunther Rall
Otto Kittel
?Hartmann downed 352 planes during WW II, the highest number of any nation in the world. A great number of these victories were during the Russian campaigns.
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
?USS Indianapolis was sunk on its return trip from delivering components of the Atomic bombs. Because it was on its secret mission, no one knew it was missing for a few days after she went down. Many who survived the sinking lost their lives to the great numbers of sharks in the area.
What was the name of the bomber that dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Enola
Alamo
Retribution
*Enola Gay
?Paul Warfield Tibbets piloted the Enola Gay and dropped the first Atomic Bomb on August 6th, 1945 on Hiroshima, Japan killing 60,000 to 70,000. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing about 40,000, convincing Japan to surrender. Unconditionally.
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
?Film star Audie Murphy was awarded 28 medals during WW II including the Medal Of Honor.
What was the name of the first "post Dreadnaught" Battleship in the U.S.Navy?
USS Maine
*USS Indiana
USS Texas
USS Arkansas
?Commissioned November 2, 1895, used as target ship . . . sunk at Tangier Sound (Chesepeake Bay) during aerial bomb tests November 1920.
What was the name of the US navy's first Aircraft Carrier?
*USS Langley
USS Hornet
USS Enterprise
USS Saratoga
?Langley was hit by Japanese planes in 1942. Too severely damaged by the planes, she was susequently sunk by her escort.
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
?Isoruku Yamamoto was the best naval mind in the Japanese Empire. He was the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Brilliant and aggressive, he commanded and received respect and obedience from his juniors. He was killed when his plane was shot down by p-38 Lightnings on April 14, 1943.
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
?"The Longest Day" was a spectacular movie with such stars as John Wayne, Richard Burton, Sean Connery, Red Buttons, Henry Fonda, Peter Lawford, Robert Mitchum, Edmond O'Brian, Robert Wagner, Rod Steiger and Paul Anka.
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
?HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismarck and Prinz Eugen on May 24, 1941, HMS Prince Of Wales was badly damaged. The Prince Of Wales and the Battlecruiser HMS Repulse were sunk by Japanese air attack on December 10, 1941.
To whom did Adolf Hitler dictate the transcript of "Mein Kampf"?
Hermann Goring
Martin Bormann
*Rudolph Hess
Ernst Rohm
?While in prison in 1923, Hess took dictation for Hitler's book "Mein Kampf". He was one of Hitlers earliest and most fervent followers. On April 21, 1933 he was made Deputy Fuhrer. He later fell out of favor to Martin Bormann and trying to regain Hitlers approval, he flew to England on a peace mission trying to convince the British that Hitler wanted only more "Lebensraum" or living space and they need not continue this war. He failed and remained in custody the rest of the war. Sentenced to life in prison at Nurnberg, he committed suicide in 1987 at age 92.
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
?Adolf Hitler's father Alois was married twice and had many affairs before marrying Clara Polzl, Adolf's Mother.
What was the code name for the invasion of Africa?
Operation Overlord
Operation Anvil
Operation Avalanche
*Operation Torch
?The beginning of the end for Rommel and his Africa Korps.
What was 'Operation Millenium'?
1st.bombing of the Ploesti oilfields
Invasion of Italy
*The first 1,000 bomber raid
Invasion of Germany
?May 30-31, 1942 the Allies sent 1,000 bombers to the city of Cologne and dropped 1,455 tons on bombs that destroyed 18,440 buildings including over 13,000 homes and 250 factories.
On what date did the Allied invasion of France occur?
*June 6, 1944
June 8, 1945
June 4, 1944
July 6, 1944
?Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy was originally set to go June 4, 1944 but bad weather delayed it.
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
?September 3, 1939 Lemp commanding U-30 sank the Athenia apparently "mistaking" it for an armed merchant cruiser. Over 300 of the 1,000 people on board were Americans heading home from the war.
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
?Alois Schicklgruber is the actual name of Alois Hitler, Adolf Hitler's father. He was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. His uncle Johann Georg Hidler convinced Alois to change it to Hiedler to carry on the family name. At the time it was recorded however, it was written Hitler instead. (Can you imagine all the Nazis chanting "Heil Schicklgruber???").
How many beaches were earmarked for the invading Allied troops on D-Day?
*five
six
four
three
?Sword, Juno, Omaha, Gold and Utah were the code names for the Normandy beaches.
What was the name of the first jet propelled fighter to fight in WW II?
Fokker-265
Me-336
*Me-262
Junkers-47
?The Messerschmidt 262 did see battle in WW II and was faster than anything the Allies had, but never was produced in numbers big enough to change the course of the war.
Who was the overall commander of all Allied forces at the war's end?
*General Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
General Bradley
Archibald Wavell
?Eisenhower was declared the Supreme commander of all Allied forces. He later went on to become President of The United States.
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
?Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939 and the Japanese surrendered on August 14, 1945.
Which battle below took place near a spot known as Lunga Point?
Pearl Harbor
Leyte Gulf
*Guadalcanal
Iwo Jima
?Elements of the US 1st Marine Division landed on Guadalcanal August 7th, 1942, near the site called Lunga Point.
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
?Set up behind the Arno River, the Gothic Line, the final German defensive line in Italy, was hit by the British 8th Army in August, 1943, and was eventually penetrated by combined forces of the British 8th and American 5th Armies.
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.
?It was the US 17th Airborne that took part in operation Varsity to support the crossing of the Rhine River. And, as far as I know, no division in Europe ever sustained 90 percent casulties, nor were there ever any all black airborne divisions. The 13th was simply kept in reserve, or scheduled for drops that didn't take place, so they ended the war never being in a position where they could be committed to battle. (Who says 13 is an unlucky number.)
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
?The Moscow Conference took place on October 19th through 30th, 1943. Among other things, it resulted in the signing of the Joint Four-Power Declaration (signed also by China's ambassador to the Soviet Union) that stated the Allies resolve to press the war on Germany to unconditional surrender, and it also set the groundwork for the creation of the post-war United Nations. As far as I know there never were anything called the Yalta Protocals, the Murmansk Compromise, or the Yakoff Agreement (I made them up).
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.
?Heydrich replaced Neurath after the latter stepped down for health reasons. Neurath was sentenced at Nuremberg to 15 years in prison but was released, again for health reasons, in 1954. After Heydrich's death in Prague on June 4th, 1942, (the result of an attack by Czeck resistance men parachuted in from Britain) he was succeeded by Frank. Frank ordered the complete obliteration of the Czech village of Lidice, and all of its inhabitants, in retalliation for Heydrich's death, and was sentnced to be publically hanged by a Czech post-war court on May 22nd, 1946, for this and other attorcities attributed to him in his stint as Protector of Bohemia-Moravia.
The 'Fighting Lady' was the nickname of the...
USS Saratoga
USS Lexington
*USS Yorktown
USS Bunker Hill
?Yorktown was known as the 'Fighting Lady' and Lexington was known as 'Lady Lex'. The Saratoga was known as 'Sara', but I don't know if the Bunker Hill had a nickname.
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.
?The Japanese operation called 'Mo' was intended to seize Port Moresby and carry out landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Port Moresby was intended as a site for air bases from which the Japanese could attack Australia and, hopefully, knock her out of the war. The Japanese suspected (but did NOT know from message intercepts) that the US would move to head off this strike, and their intention was to trap and destroy this force at sea. Although the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in history where the oposing forces never came within visual sighting of one and other, turned into a tactical victory for Japan it was also a strategic defeat for her as well (since it forced the Port Moresby attack force to wirthdraw and denied Japan the opportunity to seriously threaten Australia).
Which of the following was NOT the code name for an electronic warfare project during WWII?
*Jasmine
Knickebein
Huff-Duff
Herald
?Huff-Duff (or HF-DF) was a British direction finder used to locate German submarines at sea by their radio transmissions (it was more successful then radar in that role and the Germans never knew it was being used against them). Knickebein was a German split beam position locator for bombers (the plane flew along one beam and dropped its bombs when it contacted the second beam over the target). Herald was an American fixed sonar system used to find and track submarines attempting to enter a harbor. As far as I know, the code name Jasmine never existed (or at least it was never used in an electronic warfare context).
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
?US Navy Destroyers escorted convoys through the Western Atlantic 'Neutrality Zone' and identical Royal Navy Town class destroyers escorted the convoys through the Eastern Atlantic to England. A ships silhouette viewed through a U-Boat periscope was of little use to determine the ships Nationality under these circumstances. On October 31 1941, the German U-552 torpedoed and sunk the USS Reuben James DD-245.