The ultimate WW2 quiz

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Hint	Answer
Allied amphibious invasion, taking place in Normandy France	D-Day
German troops invade a European country, officially starting WW2	Invasion of Poland
Japanese planes bomb an American naval base, leading to the U.S joining WW2	Pearl Harbor
Allied airborne operation in the Netherlands	Battle of Arnhem/Market Garden
North American country joins the war to aid the U.S in the pacific theatre	Mexico
A desert battle in North Africa involving the British, Anzacs, and various Axis soldiers	The Battle of El Alamein
Germany invades a Scandinavian country, resulting in a massive resistance movement	Denmark
German general in North Africa, known as the “Desert Fox”	Erwin Rommel
British prime minster for majority of the war	Winston Churchill
Germanys invasion of the USSR	Operation Barbarossa
Conflict involving the USSR and Finland	The Winter War
U.S president through most of WW2	FDR
The German Fuhrer	Adolf Hitler
Main Axis powers	Germany, Italy, Japan
Main Allied powers	America, France, UK, USSR/Soviet Union, China
German war tactic meaning “lightning war”	Blitzkrieg
Japanese war tactic involving suicide bomber pilots	Kamikaze
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima japan	Little Boy
Amphibious invasion in Salerno Italy	Operation Avalanche
Main German army	Wehrmacht
German secret police	Gestapo
Soviet secret police	NKVD
British special forces unit	SAS
The year WW2 started	1939
The year WW2 ended	1945
South American country where German war criminals fled to	Argentina
German militia group made up of old men and young children	Volkssturm
German bomber known for its “Jericho Trumpets”	Stuka
U.S heavy bomber nicknamed the “Flying Fortress”	B-17
Major battle taking place in the Ardennes Forest	Battle of the Bulge
Soviet offensive leading to the Fall of Berlin	Battle of Berlin
Famous Soviet leader, known as the most decorated man of WW2	Marshal Zhukov

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Soviet dictator	Joseph Stalin
Finnish sniper known as the “White Death”	Simo Hayha
Italian fascist dictator	Benito Mussolini
The genocide of the Jewish people during WW2	The Holocaust
U.S airborne division known as the “screaming eagles”	101st airborne
Famous German tank, feared by the allies	Tiger
Spain famously did not participate in WW2 on account of the	Spanish Civil War
Failed allied operation, resulting in a mass evacuation	Dunkirk Evacuation
Massive naval and aerial battle in the Pacific Theatre	Battle of Midway
USMC and USN beach landing, iconic American photo taken involving a raised flag	Battle of Iwo Jima
Major battle in Italy also known as the Battle for Rome	Battle of Monte Casino
Battle in The Solomon Islands, resulting in the allies capturing a Japanese airfield	Battle of Guadalcanal
Church where a soldiers parachute famously got caught in the church steeple	Saint Mere Eglise
Famous man credited for creating the atomic bomb	Robert Oppenheimer
Leader of the Free French Movement	Charles De Gaulle
Deadly Soviet sniper, notably featured in the terrible movie “Enemy At The Gates”	Vasily Zaitsev
The deadliest battle of WW2, common deaths related to extreme cold	Battle of Stalingrad
Hitlers elite guard	The SS
The leader of the SS	Heinrich Himmler
Supreme Allied Commander, future president	Dwight D Eisenhower
British officer/war hero, known as the “Spartan General”	Bernard Montgomery
Vital Allied battle, capturing the bridge that crosses the Rhine River	Battle of Remagen
Famous U.S tank named after a famous Civil War General	Sherman
Battle taking place in Ukraine, heavy losses	Battle of Kiev
The famous spiked traps, set up to catch tanks during D-Day	Hedgehog trap
Hergé created a popular Belgian comic, rumored to be a Nazi sympathizer	Tin Tin
German troops stationed in North Africa	Afrika Korps
Infamous Japanese war tactic, involving large groups charging with bayonets	Banzai Charge
German Air Force	Luftwaffe
Hitler allegedly died in his	Bunker
Hitler often vacationed in his home in	Bavaria