Atlantic/European Theater
What was the name of the German expeditionary force to Africa?
Afrikakorps
What city did the Doolittle Raid target?
Tokyo
What was the name given to the war between Germany and Finland following the Moscow Armistice of 1944?
Lapland War
What is the MOST IMPORTANT front in World War Two?
Hint: THERE IS A CLEAR ANSWER
Aleutian Islands Campaign
Who was the Japanese Marshal Admiral who masterminded the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
Isoroku Yamamoto
What German battleship was sunk as a result of attacks by a British aircraft carrier and multiple battleships?
Bismarck
What is the largest ship commissioned during WW2?
Yamato-class (Yamato, Musashi)
What is the name of the "sister operation" to Operation Overlord(the invasion of Normandy), which was an Allied invasion of Southern France?
Operation Dragoon
What American commander utilized the ideas of a "wide front" against the Germans?
Eisenhower
Who was the commander of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad?
Friedrich Paulus
In which battle was Bastogne besieged by a major German force under Manteuffel until being rescued by the Third Army?
Battle of the Bulge
What was the capital of the Nationalist Government of China from 1938 until the end of the war?
Chongqing
At which battle was the German "pocket battleship" Graf Spee scuttled?
Battle of the River Plate
What Soviet military theorist and Field Marshal was one of the early proponents of "Deep Battle"?
Tukhachevsky
Who was the commander-in-chief of the Australian Land Forces during WW2?
Thomas Blamey
What was the name of the German operation to capture Crete?
Operation Mercury
What two British ships of "Force Z" were sunk during the Malayan Campaign?
HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse
What Vichy-controlled territory, later commanded by Free French Gen. Legentilhomme, was invaded by Britain over fears of Axis(specifically Japanese) usage of their ports?
Madagascar
What military theorist's ideas were the basis for the idea of Schwerpunkt?
Hint: theorist is not from WW2
Clausewitz
Who was the Italian field marshal that outranked Rommel at the Second Battle of El Alamein?
In which battle did the "Blue Division"/250th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht participate in?
Siege of Leningrad, Battle of Krasny Bor (either is OK)
Who was the Supreme Commander of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command(ABDACOM)?
Archibald Wavell
Which country did Operation Safari target?
Denmark
What French commander created the idea of "Hedgehog defense", which largely paralleled the ideas of deep battle?
Maxime Weygand
You picked the most difficult one on the board :)
Name the highest ranking commander KIA(or assassinated) for at least one Allied and one Axis power:
United States, France, China, USSR, UK
Japan, Germany, Italy
United States: McNair, Buckner Jr.
France: Darlan
China: Zhizhong
USSR: Vatutin, Chernyakhovsky
UK: Phillips
Japan: Yamamoto
Germany: Heydrich
Italy: Bergamini