Question 1

What was the name for the Anglo-American invasion of Vichy French Northwest Africa?

Accepted Answer

Operation Torch

Answer

Operation Overlord

Answer

Operation Neptune

Answer

Operation Barbarossa

Question 2

What was the outlook for the Allies at the beginning of 1942?

Accepted Answer

Gloomy

Answer

Pessimistic

Answer

Neutral

Answer

Optimistic

Question 3

Who commanded the British Eighth Army in North Africa?

Accepted Answer

Bernard Montgomery

Answer

George Patton

Answer

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer

Erwin Rommel

Question 4

On what date did Italy surrender to the Allies?

Accepted Answer

September 8, 1943

Answer

December 7, 1941

Answer

August 15, 1945

Answer

June 6, 1944

Question 5

Where did the Russians stop the Nazi offensive in October 1942?

Accepted Answer

Stalingrad

Answer

Leningrad

Answer

Kiev

Answer

Moscow

Question 6

Give the date for the largest amphibious invasion in history. Where did it take place? Who commanded it?

Accepted Answer

June 6, 1944; Normandy; Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer

September 17, 1944; Sicily; George Patton

Answer

July 1, 1943; Iwo Jima; Douglas MacArthur

Answer

May 8, 1945; Okinawa; Chester Nimitz

Question 7

What was the Nazis’ last great offensive in the West?

Accepted Answer

Battle of the Bulge

Answer

D-Day

Answer

Fall of Berlin

Answer

Operation Barbarossa

Question 8

Give the date for V-E Day.

Accepted Answer

May 8, 1945

Answer

April 30, 1945

Answer

June 6, 1944

Answer

September 2, 1945

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