Statistics for Battles of World War II

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Theater	Hint	Answer	% Correct
European/African	Turning point of World War II on the Eastern Front	Siege of {Stalingrad}	94%
	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%
	German attempt to defeat the Soviets by occupying its capital during 1941. Soviet victory and Germans pushed back	Battle of {Moscow}	83%
	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%
	December 7th, 1941	Attack on {Pearl Harbor}	82%
	Invasion of an Italian island- first major Allied assault on Axis territory in 1943	Allied Invasion of {Sicily}	81%
	1940 attempt by the German Luftwaffe to invade Britain by executing destructive air raids over England. RAF successfully defends Britain.	Battle of {Britain}	80%
	Turning point of Pacific Theatre	Battle of {Midway}	80%
	Last major German offensive campaign on Western Front- attempt to push Allies out of German territory into Belgium	Battle of the {Bulge}	80%
	June 6th,1944	D-Day	80%
	Mass evacuation of Allied soldiers from northern France to the UK in 1940	{Dunkirk} Evacuation	80%
	Code-name for the German invasion of the USSR	Operation {Barbarossa}	75%
	Code-name for the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe	Operation {Overlord}	72%
	Valentines Day bombing of an East German city in 1945. Allied victory	Dresden Bombing	70%
	Japanese occupation of the Chinese capital which resulted in a massacre	Battle of {Nanking}	69%
	Turning point in the North African Campaign	Second Battle of {El Alamein}	66%
	Attempt by Anzac and British troops to repel German paratroopers off a large Mediterranean island.	Battle of {Crete}	65%
	1940 invasion of the southernmost Balkan state by Germans and Italians. Ended when Athens was occupied by the Axis	Battle of {Greece}	65%
	British troops outnumbered Japanese troops, but still lost this city in 1942.	Battle of {Singapore}	64%
	1945 American invasion of the Japanese volcano islands	Battle of {Iwo Jima}	61%
	Costly Allied invasion of the largest island in the Ryukyu chain in 1945	Battle of {Okinawa}	57%
Pacific	Japanese occupation of the Chinese port city partly occupied by UK in 1937	Battle of {Shanghai}	55%
	Longest naval battle in history. Allied attempt to break through German U-boat blockade which eventually succeeded.	Battle of the {Atlantic}	51%
	Campaign where Allies retrieved Mandalay, Rangoon after they were occupied by Japan	{Burma} Campaign	50%
	September 1st, 1939	Invasion of Poland	50%
	Canadian and British defeat after Japanese break through the Gin Drinkers line	Battle of {Hong Kong}	49%
	Daring Allied attempt to shorten the end of WWII in 1944 by using airborne forces to bounce across the Rhine	Operation {Market Garden}	46%
	Soviet invasion of Japanese territory in 1945 shortly before the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki	Soviet invasion of {Manchuria}	46%
	Decisive 1943 Allied victory in the Solomon Islands	{Guadalcanal} Campaign	42%
	1943 campaign in which the Allies liberated an Alaskan island chain	{Aleutian Islands} Campaign	37%
	1945 battle which resulted in the liberation of the northern Philippines	Battle of {Luzon}	33%
	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}	33%
	Japanese occupation of British territory in 1942 which ended when Johor fell	{Malayan} Campaign	32%
	Strategic 1942 naval victory for Allies which repelled the Japanese invasion of New Guinea	Battle of {Coral Sea}	30%
	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}	24%
	Decisive Japanese naval victory in 1942 against the Dutch, which led on to the fall of the Dutch East Indies	Battle of {Java Sea}	20%
	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}	19%
	1940 naval battle where the British air force crippled the Italian navy	Battle of {Taranto}	16%
	Decisive 1944 Allied naval victory which destroyed the Japanese air carrier fleet	Battle of {Philippine Sea}	9%
	Japanese retreat after being encircled in the largest city in Hunan in 1942	Battle of {Changsha}	8%