This Soviet military leader was regarded as the "Hero of Stalingrad" and was the rival of German General Friedrich Paulus.
Who was Georgi Zhukov?
100
The site of the "turning point" battle in the European Theatre.
What is Stalingrad?
100
Presented entirely as numbers, this was the date of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
What is 12/7/1941?
100
This was the most important land supply route for the Allies to get war materials in to help China.
What is the Burma Road?
100
This man was the US President who issued the Potsdam Declaration and the order to use the A-Bombs on Japan.
Who was Harry Truman?
200
In some of the most important battles in the Pacific, US Admiral Chester Nimitz led the US Navy against the Japanese and their naval leader who also planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Who was Isoroku Yamamoto?
200
German city destroyed by Allied bombs very late in in the war as retaliation for German bombing of British cities earlier in the war.
What is Dresden?
200
Presented entirely as numbers, this was the date of D-Day.
What is 6/6/1944?
200
This man was the militant Japanese military leader who ran the Japanese government from the early 1930s until 1944.
Who was Hideki Tojo?
200
This was the name of the US aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan.
What is the Enola Gay?
300
In the Egyptian desert at El Alamein these two tank commanders squared off in one of the two greatest tank battles of all time.
Who were Erwin Rommel and Bernard Montgomery?
300
The French coastal area that was the site of the D-Day invasion.
What is Normandy?
300
Approximately 34,000 Jews were killed at the first truly mass murder of innocent civilians at this location in the Ukraine.
What is Babi Yar?
300
The Japanese sent this US battleship to the bottom of Pearl Harbor with over 1100 sailors on board.
What is the USS Arizona?
300
This was the US science program that developed the atomic bombs.
What is the Manhattan Project?
400
This Yugoslavian "double-agent" master spy tried to inform the US government that the Japanese were planning an attack at Pearl Harbor months before they did attack but the FBI refused to believe him and didn't pass the warning on to the White House.
Who was Dusko Popov?
400
The division of Germany into 4 zones of occupation was decided at this "big 3" conference.
What is Yalta?
400
The American Nisei lost this percentage of all of their belongings when they were forced into internment camps following the attack at Pearl Harbor.
What is 95%?
400
A photograph of US marines raising a flag on a volcanic peak on this island became the model for the US Marine Monument in Washington, D.C.
What is Iwo Jima?
400
This American scientist led the effort to develop the atomic bomb at physics labs in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
500
This American General helped to chase the Germans out of North Africa in 1943 and then a year later planned and led the D-Day invasion of France.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
500
This was the "Big 3" conference from which the Allies issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender or face "prompt and utter destruction."
What is Potsdam?
500
By the summer of 1941, Japan received this percentage of its imported oil, steel, and iron from the US.
What is 90%?
500
This was the Pacific battle site where Japan lost the last of its remaining ships in a battle against the US Navy.
What is the battle at Leyte Gulf?
500
These were the two Japanese cities that were targeted for radioactive annihilation by the US government.