World War II History Trivia Questions
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In which year was France first occupied during World War II?
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1940
Which country saw its King Leopold III surrender to the German blitzkrieg on May 28, 1940?
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belgium
Which nation, alongside Great Britain, declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, following the invasion of Poland during WWII?
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france
Which island did the Allies capture, leading to Mussolini's resignation during World War II, before they advanced to the mainland?
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sicily
Which country officially surrendered on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2, 1945?
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japan
Which is the largest Latin American country that, along with Mexico, provided troops to the Allied cause in World War II?
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brazil
Who was the Japanese emperor that addressed his people directly for the first time in a speech on August 15, 1945?
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hirohito
Which country's island of Leyte was the site of MacArthur's return in 1944?
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philippines
What battleship has a monument dedicated to it at Pearl Harbor since 1962?
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arizona
In 1942, which nation controlled all or part of a dozen present-day eastern Asian countries?
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japan
Which general's Afrika Korps arrived in Tripoli on February 14, 1941?
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erwin rommel
Which country was the target of James Doolittle's surprise air raid on April 18, 1942?
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japan
In 1942, which nation's forces occupied Attu and Kiska in the Aleutian Islands?
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japan
Who directed the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos from 1943 to 1945?
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j. robert oppenheimer
Which port in Flanders was a key site of a major evacuation during World War II due to German occupation?
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dunkirk
On what date did the Allies' invasion of Normandy begin in 1944?
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june 6
Who opened his WWII broadcasts by saying 'This is--London'?
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edward r. murrow
Which country did Italy declare war on, five weeks after surrendering to the Allies in 1943?
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germany
In 1940, the activation of approximately 300,000 of which group significantly increased the size of the U.S. Army?
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national guard
What was the name of the plane that Bob Caron, the tail gunner, was on when it bombed Hiroshima, and he died in 1995 at age 75?
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enola gay
What term, derived from the German word for 'lightning', did Londoners use to describe the bombing of their city during World War II?
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blitz
In which Iranian capital city did FDR, Churchill, and Stalin hold a conference in 1943?
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tehran
Which Japanese leader, who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor and was later convicted as a war criminal, was hanged in 1948?
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hideki tojo
In which German city did the war crimes tribunal pass sentence on 19 criminals on April 14, 1949?
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nuremberg
Which country agreed to enter the war against Japan after the Yalta Conference in 1945?
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soviet union
What top-secret initiative during World War II led to the creation of the first atomic bombs?
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manhattan project
Which German city was destroyed by over 600,000 bombs on February 13 & 14, 1945 during World War II?
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dresden
Which deputy to Hitler parachuted from a plane over Scotland with a 'peace plan' on May 10, 1941?
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rudolf hess
In early 1945, 6,800 Marines were killed while seizing Mount Suribachi and the rest of which island during World War II?
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iwo jima
Which sea off Australia was the site of the first all-air naval battle between the U.S. and Japan in May 1942?
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coral sea
Who was Hitler's chief architect who authored 'Spandau: The Secret Diaries' about his time in prison for war crimes?
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albert speer
Which Crimean health and vacation resort was the site of an important World War II conference?
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yalta
On the same day as the Pearl Harbor attack, in WWII, the Japanese bombed Iba & Clark Airfields in which islands?
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philippines
Which Nazi official, traced to Argentina in 1960, was transported to Israel, tried, and executed?
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adolf eichmann
Which north Atlantic island nation did U.S. forces take control of on July 7, 1941, fearing German occupation?
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iceland
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