| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Allied amphibious invasion, taking place in Normandy France | D-Day | 92%
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| Soviet dictator | Joseph Stalin | 83%
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| Japanese planes bomb an American naval base, leading to the U.S joining WW2 | Pearl Harbor | 75%
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| The year WW2 started | 1939 | 67%
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| The German Fuhrer | Adolf Hitler | 67%
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| Italian fascist dictator | Benito Mussolini | 67%
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| German secret police | Gestapo | 67%
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| North American country joins the war to aid the U.S in the pacific theatre | Mexico | 67%
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| British prime minster for majority of the war | Winston Churchill | 67%
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| The year WW2 ended | 1945 | 58%
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| South American country where German war criminals fled to | Argentina | 58%
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| The deadliest battle of WW2, common deaths related to extreme cold | Battle of Stalingrad | 58%
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| German war tactic meaning “lightning war” | Blitzkrieg | 58%
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| The genocide of the Jewish people during WW2 | The Holocaust | 58%
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| Hitlers elite guard | The SS | 58%
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| Allied airborne operation in the Netherlands | Battle of Arnhem/Market Garden | 50%
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| Supreme Allied Commander, future president | Dwight D Eisenhower | 50%
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| German general in North Africa, known as the “Desert Fox” | Erwin Rommel | 50%
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| Japanese war tactic involving suicide bomber pilots | Kamikaze | 50%
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| German Air Force | Luftwaffe | 50%
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| Famous man credited for creating the atomic bomb | Robert Oppenheimer | 50%
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| Hitler allegedly died in his | Bunker | 42%
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| Leader of the Free French Movement | Charles De Gaulle | 42%
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| Germany invades a Scandinavian country, resulting in a massive resistance movement | Denmark | 42%
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| Main Axis powers | Germany, Italy, Japan | 42%
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| The leader of the SS | Heinrich Himmler | 42%
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| Massive naval and aerial battle in the Pacific Theatre | Battle of Midway | 33%
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| Major battle taking place in the Ardennes Forest | Battle of the Bulge | 33%
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| U.S president through most of WW2 | FDR | 33%
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| Famous U.S tank named after a famous Civil War General | Sherman | 33%
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| Conflict involving the USSR and Finland | The Winter War | 33%
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| British officer/war hero, known as the “Spartan General” | Bernard Montgomery | 25%
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| Soviet secret police | NKVD | 25%
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| Main German army | Wehrmacht | 25%
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| German troops stationed in North Africa | Afrika Korps | 17%
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| U.S heavy bomber nicknamed the “Flying Fortress” | B-17 | 17%
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| Hitler often vacationed in his home in | Bavaria | 17%
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| German troops invade a European country, officially starting WW2 | Invasion of Poland | 17%
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| Germanys invasion of the USSR | Operation Barbarossa | 17%
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| British special forces unit | SAS | 17%
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| German bomber known for its “Jericho Trumpets” | Stuka | 17%
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| Famous German tank, feared by the allies | Tiger | 17%
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| Hergé created a popular Belgian comic, rumored to be a Nazi sympathizer | Tin Tin | 17%
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| Battle in The Solomon Islands, resulting in the allies capturing a Japanese airfield | Battle of Guadalcanal | 8%
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| USMC and USN beach landing, iconic American photo taken involving a raised flag | Battle of Iwo Jima | 8%
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| Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima japan | Little Boy | 8%
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| Church where a soldiers parachute famously got caught in the church steeple | Saint Mere Eglise | 8%
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| Finnish sniper known as the “White Death” | Simo Hayha | 8%
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| Deadly Soviet sniper, notably featured in the terrible movie “Enemy At The Gates” | Vasily Zaitsev | 8%
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| U.S airborne division known as the “screaming eagles” | 101st airborne | 0%
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| Main Allied powers | America, France, UK, USSR/Soviet Union, China | 0%
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| Infamous Japanese war tactic, involving large groups charging with bayonets | Banzai Charge | 0%
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| Soviet offensive leading to the Fall of Berlin | Battle of Berlin | 0%
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| Battle taking place in Ukraine, heavy losses | Battle of Kiev | 0%
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| Major battle in Italy also known as the Battle for Rome | Battle of Monte Casino | 0%
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| Vital Allied battle, capturing the bridge that crosses the Rhine River | Battle of Remagen | 0%
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| Failed allied operation, resulting in a mass evacuation | Dunkirk Evacuation | 0%
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| The famous spiked traps, set up to catch tanks during D-Day | Hedgehog trap | 0%
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| Famous Soviet leader, known as the most decorated man of WW2 | Marshal Zhukov | 0%
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| Amphibious invasion in Salerno Italy | Operation Avalanche | 0%
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| Spain famously did not participate in WW2 on account of the | Spanish Civil War | 0%
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| A desert battle in North Africa involving the British, Anzacs, and various Axis soldiers | The Battle of El Alamein | 0%
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| German militia group made up of old men and young children | Volkssturm | 0%
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