Quiz
World War II Knowledge
A recent study showed that American high school students were rather vague on American history. Do you know your World War II facts?
Nazi Germany's Operation Barbarossa was the planned attack on which country?
Poland
France
Soviet Union
Great Britain
What South American country declared war on Germany less than two months before fighting ended in the European Theater?
Argentina
Nicaragua
Cuba
Chile
Where was the July 22, 1944 Bretton Woods Conference held which spawned the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development?
New York City
Camp David
South Carolina
New Hampshire
What new type of warfare did Nazi Germany unleash on enemies in WWII known as "lightning war"?
Blitzkrieg
Wunderkind
Einvolkung
Endlosung
Who were the "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference?
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, and Charles de Gaulle
Franklin D. Roosevelt Josef Stalin, and Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill, Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
The D-Day invasion of Normandy was entitled·
Operation Enduring Freedom
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Operation Dynamite
Operation Overlord
What two countries have not signed a peace treaty ending World War II?
Japan and Russia
Italy and Spain
Great Britain and Germany
Great Britain and Italy
Which Japanese Naval Commander famously said "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant·" after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor?
Admiral Kizuzzi
General Hiruki
Admiral Yamamoto
What battle is commonly believed to have turned the tide in favor of the U.S. in the Pacific Theater?
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of the Philippines
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Midway
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