World War II Difficult Quiz

Chinese Nationalist capital city that was brutally sacked in 1937

German-speaking region of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted

Site of consequential 1938 conference

"Free" international city on the Baltic that Hitler claimed in 1939

Norwegian port controlling the flow of Swedish iron ore where both British and German forces landed

Site of mass execution of Polish officers by the Soviets

His replacement

Fort that was keystone of Belgian defence strategy

Town of German breakthrough in the Ardennes in May 1940

Town where the Germans first reached the English Channel in 1940

British Admiral in charge of the Mediterranean fleet at Alexandria

Commander of the RAF's Fighter Command in 1940

Site of British attack on the French navy in 1940

British carrier that the Taranto raid was launched from

Where the majority of the Italian fleet was moved to after the raid

Names of the three original Gloster Gladiator biplanes stationed on Malta

British carrier sunk by a U-Boat in 1941

Egyptian village where the original Italian advance in North Africa was repelled

British battlecruiser sunk while pursuing the Bismarck

Greek island invaded by paratroopers following the evacuation of the mainland by British and ANZAC troops

Site of huge Soviet military base on the Crimean Peninsula

First U.S. ship lost to enemy action in WWII (Hint: before Pearl Harbor)

Territory occupied by Japan that precipitated US embargoes

Admiral Nagumo's flagship for the Pearl Harbor raid

U.S. battleship that capsized during the raid

U.S. carrier sunk in the Battle of Coral Sea

Japanese light carrier sunk in the same battle

Last U.S. holdout in the Philippines before surrender

The Japanese diversion for the Midway operation was concentrated on this island chain

Northern Australian city bombed by the Japanese

Name of General Montgomery's army at El Alamein

Codename of German operation towards the Caucasus

City on the Volga river where the operation stalled

Site of disastrous Canadian raid in France

Port where the majority of the French fleet was scuttled in 1942

General Hitler promoted to Field Marshal in the hopes of him committing suicide (It didn't work)

What German army Paulus commanded (at Stalingrad)

Island Admiral Yamammoto was killed over

Island of the largest amphibious invasion in history

Site of amphibious landing designed to bypass the Gustav line (it didn't really work)

D-Day beach that was closest to Cherbourg

U.S. escort carrier that was the first victim of a kamikaze attack

First Allied power to liberate Paris

Allied General who proposed Operation Market Garden

U.S. General who led the return to the Philippines

The Admiral who wanted to invade Formosa instead

Codename of huge Soviet offensive through Belarus and into Poland in 1944

Name of militia Hitler created in Germany's final months

U.S. General who favored a drive on Vienna

Name of Admiral who took power in Germany after Hitler's death

Name of B-29 that dropped the second atom bomb

U.S. battleship where the Japanese surrender formally took place