WW2

Question 1

What year did WW2 start and end?

Answer 1

1939-1945

Question 2

What were the causes of WW2?

Answer 2

Treaty of Versailles, Economic Depression, Failure of Appeasement, Militarism of Germany and Japan, Failure of League of Nations

Question 3

Prime Minister of Britain during the start of WW2.

Answer 3

Neville Chamberlain

Question 4

First Countries to declare war.

Answer 4

United Kingdom and France

Question 5

What was the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan called?

Answer 5

Axis Powers

Question 6

German-Soviet pact that Germany broke by invading Russia.

Answer 6

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Question 7

Codename of the Axis Invasion of Soviet Union.

Answer 7

Operation Barbarossa

Question 8

Battles in which the Red Army defeated Germany.

Answer 8

Battle of Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk

Question 9

Known in code as “Operation overlord”

Answer 9

Battle of Normandy

Question 10

This country is where Normandy took place.

Answer 10

France

Question 11

Year when Mussolini was removed from power.

Answer 11

1943

Question 12

Name of the plane that carried the Hiroshima Bomb.

Answer 12

Enola Gay

Question 13

Ordered the signing of Germany’s surrender.

Answer 13

Karl Donitz

Question 14

Month when Hitler committed suicide.

Answer 14

April 1945

Question 15

Name of the Nazi Trials.

Answer 15

Nuremberg Trials

Question 16

End of WW2

Answer 16

September 2, 1945

Question 17

The day allied forces invaded occupied France. (Give the date)

Answer 17

D-Day (June 6, 1944)

Question 18

Country that Japan invaded in 1937.

Answer 18

China

Question 19

The army which overthrew Berlin.

Answer 19

Russia

Question 20

Name of an Jewish girl whose diaries were published after the war.

Answer 20

Anne Frank

Question 21

Housed one Germany for every 10 Civilian.

Answer 21

Norway

Question 22

Front where Germany suffered most of its lossed.

Answer 22

Eastern Front

Question 23

First era-modern fighter to be used by the British Airforce during the war.

Answer 23

Hurricane

Question 24

British invasion of Iceland.

Answer 24

Operation Fork

Question 25

Countries that Russia invaded during the war.

Answer 25

Poland & Finland

Question 26

People who survived both atomic bombs.

Answer 26

Hibakusha

Question 27

Surprise aerial attack on the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor.

Answer 27

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 28

When did the Pearl Harbor attack happen?

Answer 28

December 7, 1941

Question 29

An act to provide for the national defense of the Philippines.

Answer 29

National Defense Act or Commonwealth Act No. 1

Question 30

What is USAFFE?

Answer 30

United States Army Forces in the Far East.

Question 31

Pagpapalakad sa mga sundalong Pilipino at Amerikano mula Mariveles, Bataan hanggang San Fernando, Pampanga.

Answer 31

Bataan Death March

Question 32

When did the Battle of Midway happen?

Answer 32

June 3, 1942

Question 33

WW2 Naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft.

Answer 33

Battle of Midway

Question 34

When did the battle of Philippine Sea happen?

Answer 34

June 19, 1944

Question 35

Naval battle between Japanese combined fleet and the U.S. Fifth Fleet.

Answer 35

Battle of the Philippine Sea

Question 36

Decisive air and sea battle of WW2 that crippled the Japanese combined fleet.

Answer 36

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Question 37

WW2 Battle fought between U.S. and Japanese Forces on Okinawa.

Answer 37

Battle of Okinawa

Question 38

U.S. General who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in WW2, administered post-war Japan during the allied occupation that followed.

Answer 38

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Question 39

Prime Minister of Britain during WW2.

Answer 39

Winston Churchill

Question 40

Emperor of japan

Answer 40

Hirohito

Question 41

Chancellor and self-proclaimed Fuhrer (leader) of Germany.

Answer 41

Adolf Hitler

Question 42

Navy Admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Answer 42

Yamamoto Isoroku

Question 43

Fascist Prime Minister and dictator who ruled Italy.

Answer 43

Benito Mussolini

Question 44

32nd President who led the country in WW2.

Answer 44

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 45

General Secretary of the Communist Party.

Answer 45

Joseph Stalin

Question 46

Authoritarian, Ultranationalist Political Ideology.

Answer 46

Fascism

Question 47

Failed Coup d' etat by Nazi Party.

Answer 47

Beer Hall Putsch / Munich Putsch

Question 48

German word meaning "lightning war", was Germany's strategy.

Answer 48

Blitzkrieg

Question 49

Agreement by Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Answer 49

Tripartite Act

Question 50

Top-secret program to make the first atomic bombs.

Answer 50

Manhattan Project

Question 51

Genocide of Jews during WW2

Answer 51

Holocaust

Question 52

Japanese pilots who made deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets.

Answer 52

Kamikaze

Question 53

Series of Battle tanks fielded by the German Army.

Answer 53

Panzer