This Soviet military leader squared off against German General Friedrich Paulus and became known as the "hero of Stalingrad."
Who was Georgi Zhukov?
100
This was the site of the "turning point" battle in the European theatre of WWII.
What was Stalingrad?
100
This was the full date of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
What is December 7, 1941?
100
This was the name of the most important land supply route for the US to get military goods in to China from the South.
What was the Burma Road?
100
The US President who issued the Potsdam Declaration and ordered the use of the A-Bomb.
Who was Harry Truman?
200
This Japanese naval Admiral planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Who was Isoroku Yamamoto?
200
This German city was destroyed late in the war by the Allies as retaliation for German bombings of British cities.
What is Dresden?
200
The D-Day invasion began on this date.
What is June 6, 1944?
200
This man was the militant Japanese military leader who ran their government from the 1930s until 1944.
Who was Hideki Tojo?
200
This was the name of the US aircraft that dropped the first of the two Atomic Bombs on Japan.
What was the Enola Gay?
300
This pair of Army leaders squared off in the Egyptian desert at El Alamein. One was from Germany; the other was British.
Who were Erwin Rommel and Bernard Montgomery?
300
This was the French coastal area where the D-Day invasion took place.
What is Normandy?
300
Daily Triple!!!!
At this site in Ukraine, the Germans massacred 34,000 Jews and buried them in mass graves. this was the first truly huge mass murder in what became the Holocaust.
Daily Triple!!!!!
What is Babi Yar?
300
This US battleship became the everlasting tomb of over 1100 sailors during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
What was the USS Arizona?
300
This was the name of the US government's program to build the Atomic Bomb.
What was the Manhattan Project?
400
This US President was in office when World War II started but died before it ended.
Who was Franklin Roosevelt?
400
This place was the site of the "Big 3" conference in 1945 where Germany was divided into 4 zones of occupation.
What was Yalta?
400
This was the percentage of Japan's imports of oil, steel, and iron that they got from the US by the summer of 1941.
(Within 5%)
What is 90%?
400
This was the island battle from which a photo was taken that served as the model for the US Marine Monument in Washington, D.C.
What is Iwo Jima?
400
This American scientist led the effort to build the atomic Bomb at the Los Alamos labs.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! This US General helped chase the Germans out of North Africa in 1943 and then planned and led the D-Day invasion of France in 1944.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
500
This was the site of the "Big 3" conference from which Japan received an ultimatum to surrender or "face prompt and utter destruction."
What was Potsdam?
500
This was the percentage of Soviet POWs who survived the German prison camps during WWII.
(Within 5%)
What is 3%?
500
This was the Pacific battle site where Japan lost its last remaining ships.
What was Leyte Gulf?
500
These two cities were the targets of Fat Man and Little Boy, the codenames for the two bombs dropped on Japan.