Outbreak of WWII
Which country was invaded by Germany on September 1, 1939, leading to the outbreak of WWII?
Poland
Who was the Prime Minister of Britain during WWII who played a crucial role in raising the morale of the British people?
Winston Churchill
Operation Barbarossa was the codename for the German invasion of which country?
Soviet Union
Which major American naval base did the Japanese attack on the morning of December 7th, 1941?
Pearl Harbor
Which American President died in office on April 12th, 1945 of a brain hemorrhage after serving for nearly four terms?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which country joined in on the first German invasion of WWII on September 17, 1939, two weeks after Britain and France declared war on Germany?
The Soviet Union
What was the "Luftwaffe"?
The German air force
Which country initiated the North Africa Campaign during WWII?
Italy
What was the name of the battle which served as the first major turning point on the Eastern Front during?
Battle of Stalingrad
An American B-29 Superfortress dropped a uranium bomb nicknamed Little Boy on which major Japanese city on August 6th, 1945?
Hiroshima
What was the name for the German tactic of using rapid deployment of armored divisions and airpower to break through Allied defenses in Poland and France?
Blitzkrieg ("lightning war")
Who was the leader of Free France during WWII?
Charles de Gaulle
Who was the talented commander of the German Africa Korps during WWII?
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel
What was the name of the final major German offensive on the Western Front during WWII?
Battle of the Bulge
An American B-29 Superfortress dropped a plutonium bomb nicknamed Fat Man on which major Japanese city on August 9th, 1945?
Nagasaki
What was the name for the series of defenses that France built on its northern border with Germany between WWI and WWII?
The Maginot Line
Who was the King of Britain during WWII?
George VI
What was the name of the event in which Japanese soldiers assaulted and killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians in a major city during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
Rape of Nanjing (Nanking)
What was the codename for the Allied landings at Normandy?
Operation Overlord
Which battle included more troops than any other amphibious campaign in history?
Battle of Okinawa
When France fell to the German invasion, where did hundreds of thousands of British soldiers have to be evacuated from?
The beaches of Dunkirk
Who was the leader of the government of Vichy France, the puppet state set up by the German occupying forces in southern France?
Philippe Petain
Who was the fascist military dictator of Japan during WWII?
Hideki Tojo
What battle served as the first major turning point in the war in the Pacific?
Battle of Midway
What was the name of the first major conference between the Allied leaders after the defeat of Germany in which President Harry S. Truman hinted that the U.S. had developed a powerful new weapon?
Potsdam Conference