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Which Country in WWII?

Can you guess which countries these statements about WWII apply to?
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Some of these countries were still under colonial rule at the time
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Benito Mussolini was its leader
Italy
Where Anne Frank and her family sought refuge in an attic
Netherlands
Its leader said they would fight "on the beaches" if necessary
United Kingdom
It was invaded by Germany on September 1, 1939 – often considered to be the
official beginning of the war
Poland
Suffered about 10 million military deaths, the most of any country
Soviet Union
Produced the greatest number of vehicles, airplanes, and ships of any country
United States
Annexed by Germany in the "Anschluss" of 1938
Austria
Its Sudetenland region was ceded to Germany at the 1938 Munich Conference
Czechoslovakia
General MacArthur fled this country in 1942 but returned in 1944
Philippines
Island country which was occupied by the UK, US, and Canada to prevent it
from falling into German hands
Iceland
Country which the Soviets invaded, but failed to conquer, during the Winter War of 1939–1940
Finland
Asian country which hosted the first meeting of the "Big Three" Allied leaders in 1943
Iran
Some soldiers from this country continued to hide in the jungle and fight long after
the war ended. The last one didn't surrender until 1974.
Japan
Where Rommel's tanks were turned back for good at the Second Battle of El Alamein
Egypt
Produced the first jet fighter plane ever to see action
Germany
Island country under British rule which the Nazis tried, but failed, to bomb into submission
Malta
Although officially neutral, volunteers from this country's "Blue Division"
fought with the Germans
Spain
A famous land route through this country allowed the Allies to supply China
Burma
Site of Allied invasions during Operation Torch in late 1942
Algeria /
Morocco
Where 80,000 British and allied troops surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 despite
being ordered to fight to the last man
Singapore
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24 Comments
FreeStater
+7
Level 81
Mar 23, 2023
Got stuck on the jet fighter one for a bit, even though it was probably one of the easiest.
jayrod
+5
Level 96
Mar 23, 2023
I just completely "froze" up on the island nation occupied by UK, US & Canada. Went through Caribbean nations, African nations and I even tried Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey. Just blanked out for some reason there.
adix0
+2
Level 56
Mar 23, 2023
4th
Steverino1998
+4
Level 80
Mar 23, 2023
Could use another minute or two
PortugaisVolant
+22
Level 66
Mar 28, 2023
I'm surprsied he managed to do a quiz including 20 countries of WW2 without getting France into
ThobiasEriksson
+3
Level 76
Mar 29, 2023
The USSR did not try to conquer Finland in the winter war; they wanted to push the border back so Leningrad could not be reached with artillery from the finnish side. Before the war they proposed a land swap which the finnish regime declined to accept.
Quizmaster
+9
Level ∞
Mar 29, 2023
Tweaked the clue slightly. It's probable, but not certain, that the USSR intended to conquer Finland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

"Most sources conclude that the Soviet Union had intended to conquer all of Finland, and use the establishment of the puppet Finnish Communist government and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact's secret protocols as evidence of this,[F 7] while other sources argue against the idea of a full Soviet conquest."

Mikasuomi
+9
Level 55
Mar 30, 2023
As a Finn I never have had any other thought than Soviet Union tried to occupy and conquer Finland, of course they tried it and failed. I have seen recently claims by people from other countries that there were just strategic goals, but it is nonsense. We see same imperialistic goals today, nothing has changed.

When someone attacks your country, you don't ask their goals. If you sit in a living room in your home and someone breaks in the house, do you ask, what he wants?

martay
+4
Level 69
Nov 14, 2024
You could always count on Stalin to forthright and honest.

When he was wrong, he always admitted it and treated those he disagreed with respect.

theblackwidow
+2
Level 74
Mar 30, 2023
Oh how embarrassing - didn't get Operation Torch and my uncle was actually part of it!
Deltadromeus46
+1
Level 84
Mar 30, 2023
Great quiz!
Deuteronomius
+6
Level 69
Apr 20, 2023
The German translation of Iceland is "Island" so I didnt understand the question "Which Island was occupied..." at first, because I thought the answer was already given in the question :D
blueserb
+1
Level 26
Dec 21, 2023
disrespect for not adding Yugoslavia on the list
CambodianQuizzer
+2
Level 77
Sep 6, 2024
The Yugoslavian Resistance succeeded in taking back their own country. Take that, French!

(Shout out to the Dutch Underground and Polish Resistance, too.)

tshalla
+2
Level 78
Nov 14, 2024
True. I was surprised that China didn't merit a mention either.
amgine
+2
Level 67
Nov 15, 2024
It's Croatia who should have been included. Germany's last ally. Meanwhile QM wants to take us on a global safari to the cowardly sit-out states
sjj93gg
+1
Level 55
Nov 17, 2024
Infantile comment.
RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 78
Nov 14, 2024
It's contrary to the conventional wisdom, but in many ways World War II began in 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge Incident that set off the Second Sino-Japanese War. That war--which the Western powers became involved in, albeit mostly indirectly, after Pearl Harbor--killed anywhere between 3,000,000 and 20,000,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians and roughly 400,000 to 700,000 Japanese soldiers.

The argument against treating it as the start of WWII is that it was a localized conflict, like the Spanish Civil War or Italy's war on Ethiopia. But the Second Sino-Japanese War was key to Japan's plans for domination of East Asia, not a sideshow, and remained a major theater of war when WWII expanded to include Britain and France's colonial holdings as well as the US.

nations12345eat
+1
Level 49
Nov 14, 2024
malta, burma, singapore, algeria, morocco, and iceland were not independent at the time, but if it was modern day borders, then why is czechoslovakia included?
nations12345eat
+1
Level 49
Nov 14, 2024
nevermind, i just read the caveats
tshalla
+1
Level 78
Nov 14, 2024
The Franks and their friends hid in an annex. The annex had an attic, but the point is that the annex had a hidden connection to the main part of the building.
RedStar12345
+2
Level 55
Nov 14, 2024
Very nice quizz. I likehow some of the questions are more difficult than usual, making it more difficult.

I have only one small request: is it possibe to include China somewhere here? A great part of the war in Asia consisted on the fights between that country and the empire of Japan.

TheOfficialWheel
+1
Level 16
Apr 10, 2025
The soldier who didn't stop fighting was Hiro. He lived in his own fear. Watch Be Amazed on YouTube for more info
CLD99
+1
Level 66
Feb 3, 2026
"Island country under British rule which the Nazis tried, but failed, to bomb into submission"

Shouldn't the UK also be an accepted answer? Certainly an island country, certainly under British rule, and I would argue that the Blitz constitutes trying and failing to bomb it into submission...

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