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Battles of World War II - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 3,140 times
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- The average score is 23 of 40
Answer Stats
| Theater | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| European/African | Turning point of World War II on the Eastern Front | Siege of {Stalingrad} | 95%
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| Final battle on the European front which results in the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945 and the occupation of East Germany by the Soviets | Battle of {Berlin} | 87%
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| German attempt to defeat the Soviets by occupying its capital during 1941. Soviet victory and Germans pushed back | Battle of {Moscow} | 84%
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| German and Finnish blockade of a Soviet port city on the Baltic which lasted for 2 years from Sept 1942 to Jan 1944 | Siege of {Leningrad} | 83%
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| Last major German offensive campaign on Western Front- attempt to push Allies out of German territory into Belgium | Battle of the {Bulge} | 82%
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| December 7th, 1941 | Attack on {Pearl Harbor} | 80%
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| 1940 attempt by the German Luftwaffe to invade Britain by executing destructive air raids over England. RAF successfully defends Britain. | Battle of {Britain} | 80%
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| Turning point of Pacific Theatre | Battle of {Midway} | 80%
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| June 6th,1944 | D-Day | 80%
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| Mass evacuation of Allied soldiers from northern France to the UK in 1940 | {Dunkirk} Evacuation | 80%
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| Invasion of an Italian island- first major Allied assault on Axis territory in 1943 | Allied Invasion of {Sicily} | 79%
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| Code-name for the German invasion of the USSR | Operation {Barbarossa} | 77%
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| Code-name for the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe | Operation {Overlord} | 73%
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| Turning point in the North African Campaign | Second Battle of {El Alamein} | 69%
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| Japanese occupation of the Chinese capital which resulted in a massacre | Battle of {Nanking} | 68%
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| Valentines Day bombing of an East German city in 1945. Allied victory | Dresden Bombing | 68%
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| 1940 invasion of the southernmost Balkan state by Germans and Italians. Ended when Athens was occupied by the Axis | Battle of {Greece} | 65%
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| Attempt by Anzac and British troops to repel German paratroopers off a large Mediterranean island. | Battle of {Crete} | 64%
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| 1945 American invasion of the Japanese volcano islands | Battle of {Iwo Jima} | 63%
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| September 1st, 1939 | Invasion of Poland | 63%
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| British troops outnumbered Japanese troops, but still lost this city in 1942. | Battle of {Singapore} | 62%
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| Costly Allied invasion of the largest island in the Ryukyu chain in 1945 | Battle of {Okinawa} | 60%
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| Longest naval battle in history. Allied attempt to break through German U-boat blockade which eventually succeeded. | Battle of the {Atlantic} | 57%
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| Pacific | Japanese occupation of the Chinese port city partly occupied by UK in 1937 | Battle of {Shanghai} | 53%
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| Soviet invasion of Japanese territory in 1945 shortly before the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki | Soviet invasion of {Manchuria} | 50%
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| Canadian and British defeat after Japanese break through the Gin Drinkers line | Battle of {Hong Kong} | 49%
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| Daring Allied attempt to shorten the end of WWII in 1944 by using airborne forces to bounce across the Rhine | Operation {Market Garden} | 48%
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| Campaign where Allies retrieved Mandalay, Rangoon after they were occupied by Japan | {Burma} Campaign | 47%
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| Decisive 1943 Allied victory in the Solomon Islands | {Guadalcanal} Campaign | 43%
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| 1943 campaign in which the Allies liberated an Alaskan island chain | {Aleutian Islands} Campaign | 36%
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| Allied assault to capture a hill in order to break the Gustav Line and take Rome from the North in 1944. | Battle of {Monte Cassino} | 36%
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| Strategic 1942 naval victory for Allies which repelled the Japanese invasion of New Guinea | Battle of {Coral Sea} | 31%
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| Japanese occupation of British territory in 1942 which ended when Johor fell | {Malayan} Campaign | 31%
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| 1945 battle which resulted in the liberation of the northern Philippines | Battle of {Luzon} | 29%
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| 1942 battle which resulted in a Death March in which 12000 Americans and 63000 Filipinos were forced to march to Camp St Donnell in the Philippines. | Battle of {Bataan} | 26%
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| Large-scale 1945 naval battle in the Philippines in which the Americans crippled the Japanese navy. First use of kamikaze pilots by the Japanese. | Battle of {Leyte Gulf} | 23%
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| Decisive Japanese naval victory in 1942 against the Dutch, which led on to the fall of the Dutch East Indies | Battle of {Java Sea} | 19%
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| 1940 naval battle where the British air force crippled the Italian navy | Battle of {Taranto} | 17%
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| Decisive 1944 Allied naval victory which destroyed the Japanese air carrier fleet | Battle of {Philippine Sea} | 12%
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| Japanese retreat after being encircled in the largest city in Hunan in 1942 | Battle of {Changsha} | 9%
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