General

Question 1

The German strategic style of fighting, employing fast-moving, massed armored columns supported by airpower.

Answer 1

Blitzkrieg

Question 2

The French defensive that ran from Switzerland in the south to the Belgian frontier in the north. Failed to stop the German advance.

Answer 2

Maginot Line

Question 3

Commander of German and Italian forces during the North African campaign. Nicknamed the “Desert Fox.”

Answer 3

Erwin Rommel

Question 4

Code name for Hitler’s planned invasion of the USSR.

Answer 4

Operation Barbarossa

Question 5

Japanese General who oversaw the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Answer 5

Tojo

Question 6

The two cities destroyed by the atomic bomb

Answer 6

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Question 7

Japanese suicide missions in which pilots deliberately flew their planes into American warships.

Answer 7

Kamikaze

Question 8

Japanese Emperor during WWII

Answer 8

Hirohito

Question 9

The name of the German Airforce

Answer 9

Luftwaffe

Question 10

Supreme Commander of the Allied armies in Europe

Answer 10

Gen Dwight D Eisenhower

Question 11

Which country helped Germany invade Poland?

Answer 11

Soviet Union

Question 12

Who was the US president during the start of WW2

Answer 12

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 13

Which branch of the armed services was John F Kennedy in

Answer 13

Navy

Question 14

What caused the USA to enter WWII

Answer 14

Attack on Pearl Harbour

Question 15

Who was the soviet leader during the war

Answer 15

Joseph Stalin

Question 16

Whose side was spain on during the war?

Answer 16

Spain was neutral

Question 17

Whose side was China on in the war

Answer 17

Allies

Question 18

What did the USA do to Japanese people living in the USA

Answer 18

Sent them to internment camps

Question 19

What was the name given to German Submarines

Answer 19

U-Boats

Question 20

US Ordered 150 Million pounds of which food to serve its troops

Answer 20

Spam

Question 21

What were “jungle fountains” used to serve soldiers with

Answer 21

Coca Cola

Question 22

What was the only country Germany Officially declared war on?

Answer 22

USA

Question 23

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor which brand of potato chips changed its name to Jays?

Answer 23

Japps

Question 24

In what year did Germany open its first concentration camp?

Answer 24

1933

Question 25

Which event is widely considered to be the beginning of the holocaust

Answer 25

Kristalnacht

Question 26

What country did Adolf Hitler's nephew, William Hitler, fight for?

Answer 26

USA

Question 27

In which year did the last member of the Japanese Imperial army surrendor

Answer 27

1974

Question 28

What was the Manhattan Project?

Answer 28

The code name for the american project to build an atomic bomb

Question 29

Which president ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Answer 29

Harry S Truman

Question 30

What mascot represented the women who went to work in factories to help with the war effort?

Answer 30

Rosie the Riviter

Question 31

Which was the first commodity rationed in the USA

Answer 31

Sugar

Question 32

What date did WW2 begin

Answer 32

1 September 1939

Question 33

Which two countries declared war on Germany after it invaded Poland

Answer 33

Britain and France

Question 34

Where did the d-day landings take place

Answer 34

Normandy in France

Question 35

How many Jewish people were murdered during WW2

Answer 35

Between 6 and 11 Million

Question 36

Who was the leader of China during WW2

Answer 36

Chiang Kai Shek

Question 37

Which country did not resist Germany and allowed the Nazis to annex it?

Answer 37

Austria

Question 38

What was 'the Final Solution'

Answer 38

Hitlers plan to exterminate the Jews

Question 39

Who was Oskar Schindler?

Answer 39

A German Businessman who helped to save many jews from being executed by employing them in his factories

Question 40

What was the capital of Germany

Answer 40

Berlin

Question 41

In what year did the Soviet Union finally declare war on Japan

Answer 41

1945

Question 42

What term did the British use to describe the nightly ari raids that occured during 1940 and 1941

Answer 42

The Blitz

Question 43

To prevent German pilots from successfully bombing Great Britain at night, British citizens were required to do what?

Answer 43

Prevent any light from escaping their homes that might be seen by enemy aircraft

Question 44

What is the nickname of the Allied landings on the Normandy Beaches on June 6, 1944?

Answer 44

d-day

Question 45

How did Hitler die?

Answer 45

Killed himself

Question 46

What is considered by many to be the German blunder that turned the tide of the war?

Answer 46

Invading Russia

Question 47

The eldest daughter of King George VI of Great Britain, served as a driver and mechanic during the war. She, of course, became

Answer 47

Queen Elizabeth 2