| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Country invaded by Germany on Sep 1,1939 | Country that lost the highest % of its prewar population | Poland | 94%
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| Term for Germany's aerial bombardment of the UK in 1940 | The Blitz | 81%
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| Name of the German air force | Luftwaffe | 63%
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| Largest concentration camp | The deadliest concentration camp | Auschwitz | 59%
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| Italian duce | Benito Mussolini | 59%
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| Russian dictator | Joseph Stalin | 59%
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| Term for Japanese Suicide Bombers | Kamikaze | 59%
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| German führer | Adolf Hitler | 56%
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| Name for Jun 6, 1944 | D-Day | 53%
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| English translation of "panzer" | Tank | 53%
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| British Prime Minister after 1940 | Winston Churchill | 53%
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| Hitler's country of birth | Austria | 50%
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| U.S. nuclear program | Manhattan Project | 50%
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| Headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet attacked on a day which will live in infamy | Pearl Harbor | 47%
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| Term for a German Submarine | U-Boat | 47%
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| Town from where the British evacuated France in 1940 | Dunkirk | 44%
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| German word for "lightning war" | Blitzkreig | 41%
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| President of the USA before 1944 | Franklin D.Roosevelt | 41%
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| President of the USA after 1944 | Harry Truman | 41%
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| Region of France stormed by the Allies on D-Day | Normandy | 38%
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| What V in V-E day stands for | Victory | 38%
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| Supreme Allied commander in Europe | Dwight Eisenhower | 34%
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| German encryption machine | German encryption machine cracked by British & Polish codebreakers | Enigma | 34%
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| Japanese Emperor | Hirohito | 34%
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| German city that was firebombed in Feb 1945 killing 25,000 | German city which was firebombed on February 13, 1945 | Dresden | 31%
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| German general called “The Desert Fox” | Erwin Rommel | 31%
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| First Japanese city hit by an Atomic bomb | Hiroshima | 31%
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| British King | King George VI | 31%
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| General who said “I shall return”, when forced to leave the Philippines | Douglas MacArthur | 28%
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| Hitler's wife | Eva Braun | 28%
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| Luftwaffe commander | Hermann Goring | 28%
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| Dec 7,1941, a date that will live in ... | Infamy | 28%
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| 2nd Japanese city hit by an atomic bomb | Nagasaki | 28%
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| Turning point of the pacific theater | Battle of Midway | 25%
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| The dictator of Spain | Francisco Franco | 25%
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| Atoll where Japan lost four aircraft carriers in 1942 | Midway | 25%
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| Place that General MacArthur promised to return to | Phillippines | 25%
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| City whose ghetto had 400,000 jews | Warsaw | 25%
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| Turning point of the Eastern Front in Europe | Battle of Stalingrad | 22%
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| German counter-offensive on the Western front in late 1944 | Germanys Last Stand | Battle of the Bulge | 22%
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| Country invaded by the USSR in the Winter War | Finland | 22%
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| What Nazi leader was in charge of the SS? | Heinrich Himmler | 22%
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| Pacific island where six marines were photographed raising an American flag | Iwo Jima | 22%
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| Name of 1st atomic bomb | Little Boy | 22%
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| Line of fortresses meant to protect France from Germany | Maginot Line | 22%
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| Key strategic island in the Mediterranean which was long besieged by the Nazis but never captured | Malta | 22%
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| Hitler's manifesto | Mein Kampf | 22%
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| British Prime Minister pre 1940 | Neville Chamberlain | 22%
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| Series of defenses that were supposed to protect France from Germany | The Maginot Line | 22%
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| Forest through which Germany invaded France | Ardennes | 19%
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| Nazi master race | Aryan | 19%
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| Former country which unified Germany under its leadership in 1871 and was known for its efficient military | Prussia | 19%
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| Name of the German army | Wehrmacht | 19%
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| Leader of China | Chiang Kai-Shek | 16%
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| American general called “Old Blood and Guts” | George S.Patton | 16%
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| Name of the German navy | Kriegsmarine | 16%
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| City besieged by Germany between 1941–1944, but never captured | Leningrad | 16%
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| City "raped" by Japan in 1937 | Nanking | 16%
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| Primary language of Native American code-talkers | Navajo | 16%
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| Bitter Pacific battle of 1945 | Okinawa | 16%
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| Which prominent Nazi flew to Scotland in 1940? | Rudolph Hess | 16%
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| Nazi collaborator who led Norway | Vidkun Quisling | 16%
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| Crimean city that hosted a conference in 1945 | Yalta | 16%
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| Which famous British General stopped Rommel for good | Bernard Montgomery | 13%
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| Most decorated Soviet general | Georgy Zhukov | 13%
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| Japanese Prime Minister | Hideki Tojo | 13%
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| Hitler's chalet in the Bavarian Alps | The Eagle's Nest | 13%
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| How many Russians were killed in the war | 25 Million | 9%
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| Name of 2nd atomic bomb | Fat Man | 9%
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| Nickname of the B-17 | Flying Fortress | 9%
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| German word for hunter or light infantry | Jäger | 9%
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| At what place in the USSR was the site of the largest tank battle? | Kursk | 9%
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| Agreement which allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia | Munich Agreement | 9%
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| Code name for the Battle of Normandy | Overlord | 9%
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| The Premier of Vichy France was called? | Phillipe Petain | 9%
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| Area which the Germans remilitarized in 1936, breaking their treaty obligations | Rhineland | 9%
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| Capital of “independent” France from 1940–1944 | Vichy | 9%
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| River on which the battle of Stalingrad was fought | Volga | 9%
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| The capital Japanese ship was called? | Yamato | 9%
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| Group of three countries annexed by the USSR in 1940 and again in 1944 | Baltic States | 6%
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| Zeppelins crowded the skies of Britain | Battle of Britain | 6%
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| British codebreaking site | Bletchley Park | 6%
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| Town in Egypt that marked the furthest advance of Rommel's tanks | El Alamein | 6%
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| American political figure who commanded PT-109 | John F.Kennedy | 6%
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| Nickname for female factory workers in the U.S. | Rosie the Riveter | 6%
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| Hitler's headquarters in East Prussia | The Wolf's Lair | 6%
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| Sister ship of the Bismark | Tirpitz | 6%
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| Bloody battle site in the Solomon islands | Guadalcanal | 3%
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| Pact that Germany made with Soviets | Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact | 3%
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| What was the code name for the invasion of Italy,1943? | Operation Husky | 3%
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| What were the German divisions in North Africa called? | The Afrika Korps | 3%
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| Roosevelt called America the what? | The arsenal of democracy | 3%
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| Road from Rangoon to Chongqing which was a key supply route for China | Burma Road | 0%
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| 1943 US/UK conference site | Quebec | 0%
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| Stalin issued a policy of what on the USSR? | Scorched Earth | 0%
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| German defences on the french border | Siegried line | 0%
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