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Test your knowledge of World War II with questions about key battles, leaders, and historical events. Learn fascinating details and facts about this significant period in history. Challenge yourself with intriguing facts from WWII!
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Question 1 - 10 Upon evacuating the Philippines, who promised “I shall Return”?
Answer 1 – 10 Douglas MacArthur
Question 1 - 20 Who was the Fascist dictator of Italy? After he was killed, his body was hung on a meat hook in the street.
Answer 1 – 20 Benito Mussolini
Question 1 - 30 Who was the militaristic Prime Minister of Japan?
Answer 1 – 30 Hideki Tojo
Question 1 - 40 Name the Battle Stopped the Japanese push east across the Pacific thanks to code breakers breaking the Japanese military code?
Answer 1 – 40 Midway
Question 1 - 50 Name the Battle First time the Japanese used kamikaze attacks (in the Philippines)?
Answer 1 – 50 Leyte Gulf
Question 2 - 10 Name the Battle Bad loss suffered by the American military in North Africa, proving that we had not been ready to invade Europe?
Answer 2 – 10 Kasserine Pass
Question 2 - 20 Name the Battle Germany suffers a major defeat in the snow and cold and goes on the defensive for the first time, eventually being pushed back into Germany?
Answer 2 – 20 Stalingrad
Question 2 - 30 Name the Battle Gave the Allies a close base from which they could launch an invasion into Japan?
Answer 2 – 30 Okinawa
Question 2 - 40 Name the Battle Allies invade Europe and break through Hitler’s Atlantic Wall defenses?
Answer 2 – 40 D-Day
Question 2 - 50 Name the Battle Gave the U.S. an airbase close enough to Japan to effectively bomb the Japanese main islands?
Answer 2 – 50 Iwo Jima
Question 3 - 10 Name the Battle Hitler’s last major offensive in Europe. Trapped members of the 101st Airborne in Bastogne until Patton’s armored division broke through and rescued them?
Answer 3 – 10 Battle of the Bulge
Question 3 - 20 Name the Battle General Benard “Monty” Montgomery’s big blunder. A failed attempt to parachute into Holland/the Netherlands in order to secure a bridge across the Rhine river into Germany?
Answer 3 – 20 Operation Market Garden
Question 3 - 30 • What was the Holocaust? • Who was targeted • Why? • What were the initial steps taken in persecution • What was the “final solution” • Other atrocities committed
Question 3 - 40 Why do many people today question whether the United Nations has failed in its original international goals?
Question 3 - 50 In what year did the modern Jewish nation of Israel begin its existence?
Answer 3 – 50 1948
Question 4 - 10 Immediately following the proclamation of Israel as a new Jewish nation, what happened?
Answer 4 – 10 6 of Israel’s Arab neighbor countries attacked and were defeated.
