Question 1

Britain and France declared war on Germany after its invasion of which country?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Answer

Finland

Answer

Hungary

Answer

Russia

Question 2

Which famous general commanded the Allied invasion of Normandy?

Accepted Answer

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer

George S. Patton

Answer

George C. Marshall

Answer

Omar Bradley

Question 3

Which country was one of the Allied powers?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Answer

Italy

Answer

Japan

Answer

Germany

Question 4

Which country was one of the Axis powers?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Answer

Britain

Answer

France

Answer

USSR

Question 5

What date was originally designated for D-Day?

Accepted Answer

June 5, 1944

Answer

July 5, 1944

Answer

May 5, 1944

Answer

August 5, 1944

Question 6

Who was the U.S. president when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer

Herbert Hoover

Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 7

Which country suffered the largest loss of life during the war?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Answer

Britain

Answer

France

Answer

USA

Question 8

What was Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution?"

Accepted Answer

The extermination of all European Jews using concentration camps, death camps, and paramilitary death squads.

Answer

Enacting less restrictive travel laws for Germany's Jewish population.

Answer

The opening of a second front in Western Europe.

Answer

The deportation of all European Jews.

Question 9

How did Germany's leader Adolf Hitler die?

Accepted Answer

suicide

Answer

Assasination

Answer

Car crash

Answer

Execution

Question 10

What were Japanese suicide bombers called?

Accepted Answer

Kamikaze

Answer

Ninja

Answer

Naginata

Answer

Bushi

Question 11

In which two Japanese cities did the United States drop nuclear bombs?

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer

Tokyo and Nagasaki

Answer

Osaka and Hiroshima

Answer

Yokohama and Hiroshima

Question 12

What did the United States do to some Japanese-American citizens during the war?

Accepted Answer

send them to internment camps

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embraced them equally as American citizens

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forced them to register as terrorists

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exiled them in Puerto Rico

Question 13

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WW2?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

Answer

Adolph Hitler

Answer

Winston Churchill

Answer

Fidel Castro

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