World War II

Question 1

When did World War II start?

Answer 1

1 September 1939

Question 2

When World War II end?

Answer 2

15 August 1945

Question 3

What was the name of the initial invasion of the USSR by Germany?

Answer 3

Operation Barbarossa

Question 4

What battle in South Russia was one of the deadliest in the war, and resulted in a defeat for Germany?

Answer 4

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 5

Who was the Desert Fox, who commanded German forces in France and Northern Africa?

Answer 5

Erwin Rommel

Question 6

What event caused the US to enter the war?

Answer 6

Pearl Harbour

Question 7

The siege of Tobruk was defended by troops from where?

Answer 7

Australia

Question 8

Who was the leader of the UK during most of the war?

Answer 8

Winston Churchill

Question 9

Who was the leader of Australia during most of the war?

Answer 9

John Curtin

Question 10

Who was the leader of the US during most of the war?

Answer 10

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 11

Who was the leader of Canada during the war?

Answer 11

Mackenzie King

Question 12

What was the SS?

Answer 12

A radical organisation in Germany who enforced racial law and acted as the secret service and intelligence agency during the war.

Question 13

Who was the leader of the SS?

Answer 13

Heinrich Himmler was leader most of the time.

Question 14

Who ran the Kokoda campaign in PNG?

Answer 14

Thomas Blamey

Question 15

What was the technique used by commanders such as Erwin Rommel and George Patton during the invasions of France and the Soviet Union?

Answer 15

Blitzkrieg

Question 16

Who was the head of Allied forces in the European Theater?

Answer 16

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 17

Who was the head of the Allied forces in the SE Asian Theater?

Answer 17

Douglas MacArthur

Question 18

Who was the Admiral of the US Pacific Fleet?

Answer 18

Chester Nimitz

Question 19

When did the Polish army surrender?

Answer 19

6 October

Question 20

What was the German series of bombings on British cities called?

Answer 20

The Blitz

Question 21

Why didn’t Spain join the Axis?

Answer 21

It was repairing from the Spanish Civil War

Question 22

Who was the main Soviet general in the Eastern Front?

Answer 22

Georgy Zhukov

Question 23

What was the name of the German Air Force?

Answer 23

The Luftwaffe

Question 24

Who commanded the German Air Force?

Answer 24

Hermann Goring

Question 25

Where did the Nazis invade to break through French lines in 1940?

Answer 25

The Ardennes

Question 26

Which Asian country had the most casualties in the war?

Answer 26

China

Question 27

Despite the war starting officially in 1939, Japan started campaigns much earlier in China when?

Answer 27

1937

Question 28

Where was around 300,000 civillians and surrendered soldiers killed in China by the Japanese?

Answer 28

Nanking or Nanjing

Question 29

Who commanded the British forces in Singapore before it fell to the Japanese in 1942?

Answer 29

Arthur Percival

Question 30

Who was the PM of New Zealand during WW2?

Answer 30

Peter Fraser

Question 31

What are the names of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945?

Answer 31

Little Boy and Fat Man

Question 32

Where were the atomic bombs dropped in Japan?

Answer 32

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 33

Who was the French-Australian resistance member who was called the White Mouse?

Answer 33

Nancy Wake

Question 34

Who ran the Manhattan Project?

Answer 34

Robert Oppenheimer

Question 35

What did the Manhattan Project achieve?

Answer 35

The invention of the atomic bomb

Question 36

What was the code name for D-Day

Answer 36

Operation Overlord