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Hint	Answer
Country invaded by Germany on Sep 1,1939	Poland
German word for "lightning war"	Blitzkreig
Name of the German air force	Luftwaffe
Name of the German navy	Kriegsmarine
Name of the German army	Wehrmacht
Turning point of the pacific theater	Battle of Midway
Largest concentration camp	Auschwitz
English translation of "panzer"	Tank
German city that was firebombed in Feb 1945 killing 25,000	Dresden
German encryption machine cracked by British & Polish codebreakers	Enigma
Town from where the British evacuated France in 1940	Dunkirk
Term for a German Submarine	U-Boat
Term for Japanese Suicide Bombers	Kamikaze
U.S. nuclear program	Manhattan Project
Dec 7,1941, a date that will live in ...	Infamy
Name for Jun 6, 1944	D-Day
What V in V-E day stands for	Victory
British Prime Minister pre 1940	Neville Chamberlain
British Prime Minister after 1940	Winston Churchill
British King	King George VI
President of the USA before 1944	Franklin D.Roosevelt
President of the USA after 1944	Harry Truman
Supreme Allied commander in Europe	Dwight Eisenhower
Russian dictator	Joseph Stalin
German führer	Adolf Hitler
Italian duce	Benito Mussolini
Japanese Emperor	Hirohito
Japanese Prime Minister	Hideki Tojo
What Nazi leader was in charge of the SS?	Heinrich Himmler
Which prominent Nazi flew to Scotland in 1940?	Rudolph Hess
Nazi collaborator who led Norway	Vidkun Quisling
Leader of China	Chiang Kai-Shek
Luftwaffe commander	Hermann Goring
Most decorated Soviet general	Georgy Zhukov
General who said “I shall return”, when forced to leave the Philippines	Douglas MacArthur
Nickname for female factory workers in the U.S.	Rosie the Riveter
Hitler's wife	Eva Braun
German general called “The Desert Fox”	Erwin Rommel
American general called “Old Blood and Guts”	George S.Patton
American political figure who commanded PT-109	John F.Kennedy
The dictator of Spain	Francisco Franco
The Premier of Vichy France was called?	Phillipe Petain
Which famous British General stopped Rommel for good	Bernard Montgomery
First Japanese city hit by an Atomic bomb	Hiroshima
2nd Japanese city hit by an atomic bomb	Nagasaki
Term for Germany's aerial bombardment of the UK in 1940	The Blitz
Series of defenses that were supposed to protect France from Germany	The Maginot Line
Hitler's country of birth	Austria
Agreement which allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia	Munich Agreement
German counter-offensive on the Western front in late 1944	Battle of the Bulge
Capital of “independent” France from 1940–1944	Vichy

Hint	Answer
City besieged by Germany between 1941–1944, but never captured	Leningrad
Region of France stormed by the Allies on D-Day	Normandy
Turning point of the Eastern Front in Europe	Battle of Stalingrad
River on which the battle of Stalingrad was fought	Volga
Headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet attacked on a day which will live in infamy	Pearl Harbor
Forest through which Germany invaded France	Ardennes
Pacific island where six marines were photographed raising an American flag	Iwo Jima
Place that General MacArthur promised to return to	Phillippines
German city which was firebombed on February 13, 1945	Dresden
Country that lost the highest % of its prewar population	Poland
The deadliest concentration camp	Auschwitz
Town in Egypt that marked the furthest advance of Rommel's tanks	El Alamein
Area which the Germans remilitarized in 1936, breaking their treaty obligations	Rhineland
Road from Rangoon to Chongqing which was a key supply route for China	Burma Road
Country invaded by the USSR in the Winter War	Finland
Atoll where Japan lost four aircraft carriers in 1942	Midway
Key strategic island in the Mediterranean which was long besieged by the Nazis but never captured	Malta
Former country which unified Germany under its leadership in 1871 and was known for its efficient military	Prussia
Line of fortresses meant to protect France from Germany	Maginot Line
Group of three countries annexed by the USSR in 1940 and again in 1944	Baltic States
Hitler's chalet in the Bavarian Alps	The Eagle's Nest
Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia	The Wolf's Lair
German encryption machine	Enigma
Bloody battle site in the Solomon islands	Guadalcanal
City "raped" by Japan in 1937	Nanking
Code name for the Battle of Normandy	Overlord
Crimean city that hosted a conference in 1945	Yalta
Nazi master race	Aryan
British codebreaking site	Bletchley Park
Nickname of the B-17	Flying Fortress
German word for hunter or light infantry	Jäger
Hitler's manifesto	Mein Kampf
Primary language of Native American code-talkers	Navajo
Bitter Pacific battle of 1945	Okinawa
1943 US/UK conference site	Quebec
City whose ghetto had 400,000 jews	Warsaw
Pact that Germany made with Soviets	Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Zeppelins crowded the skies of Britain	Battle of Britain
Germanys Last Stand	Battle of the Bulge
Name of 1st atomic bomb	Little Boy
Name of 2nd atomic bomb	Fat Man
How many Russians were killed in the war	25 Million
German defences on the french border	Siegried line
Sister ship of the Bismark	Tirpitz
The capital Japanese ship was called?	Yamato
Stalin issued a policy of what on the USSR?	Scorched Earth
Roosevelt called America the what?	The arsenal of democracy
What was the code name for the invasion of Italy,1943?	Operation Husky
At what place in the USSR was the site of the largest tank battle?	Kursk
What were the German divisions in North Africa called?	The Afrika Korps

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