Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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September 1939: Germany attacked what country to start the conflict in Europe? | Poland | 100%
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October 1939: The last soldiers of the nation from the previous question surrendered. Germany annexed the western part and the ________ ________ annexed the eastern part. | Soviet-Union | 89%
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November 1939: What war in between the Soviet-Union and Finland started the 30th of this month? | Winter War | 84%
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November 1940: The United States presidential election was held. ________ ________ ________won an unprecedented third term as President of the United States, carrying 38 of 48 states. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 74%
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June 1940: On the third of this month, the last troops from the British Expeditionary Force in France were evacuated from ________. | Dunkirk | 69%
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October 1940: The Italian Army crossed the southern border of annexed Albania and invaded ________. | Greece | 69%
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January 1940: The German government ordered the registration of all ________ owned property in Poland. | Jewish | 69%
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July 1940: Philippe Pétain's government moved to southern France. The collaborationist state run from there came to be known as ________ France. | Vichy | 67%
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September 1940: The Japanese invasion of ________ Indochina began. | French | 63%
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May 1940: Germany attacked the low countries and France. Through what area did the Germans penetrate the French lines with their spearheads? | Ardennes | 55%
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December 1940: At least 7 new German submarines were commissioned this month. What was the German name for submarine? | U-boat | 55%
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August 1940: The Japanese battleship ________ is launched, she would become the largest and heaviest battleship to ever set sail. | Yamato | 44%
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December 1939: The Soviet Army reached the ________ Line. This was a line of Finnish fortifications along the Karelian Isthmus. | Mannerheim | 40%
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April 1940: The guns of Oscarsborg Fortress sank the Blücher in the Battle of Drøbak Sound, in the fjord leading to ________ (Norway). | Oslo | 40%
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March 1940: ________ ________, the deadliest sniper of all time, was hit by an explosive round in an anti-sniper campaign run by the Soviets, putting him into an 11-day coma. | Simo Häyhä | 39%
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February 1940: Forces of the Royal Navy seized the German steamer ________ in Norwegian waters and freed 299 prisoners of war. | Altmark | 13%
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