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Printable World War 2 Trivia Questions

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1. Which country did Germany invade on September 1, 1939, starting WWII?

AFrance
BRussia
CPoland
DBelgium

2. What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944?

AOperation Overlord
BOperation Barbarossa
COperation Sea Lion
DOperation Market Garden

3. Who was the Prime Minister of Britain during most of World War II?

ANeville Chamberlain
BWinston Churchill
CClement Attlee
DAnthony Eden

4. What was the name of the German cipher machine that Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park worked to crack?

ABombe
BColossus
CEnigma
DUltra

5. Which two Japanese cities were struck by atomic bombs in August 1945?

ATokyo and Osaka
BHiroshima and Nagasaki
CKyoto and Kobe
DYokohama and Nagoya

6. Who was the US President when the United States entered World War II?

AHarry S. Truman
BDwight D. Eisenhower
CHerbert Hoover
DFranklin D. Roosevelt

7. What is the name of the 1940 air campaign in which Britain's Royal Air Force fought off the German Luftwaffe?

ABattle of Britain
BBattle of the Bulge
CBattle of Midway
DBattle of Kursk

8. Which battle, fought from 1942 to 1943, is considered a major turning point on the Eastern Front?

ABattle of Midway
BBattle of Stalingrad
CBattle of El Alamein
DBattle of Anzio

9. At which 1945 conference in Crimea did Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet to plan the post-war world?

APotsdam Conference
BTehran Conference
CYalta Conference
DCasablanca Conference

10. On what date did Germany surrender, a day celebrated in the West as V-E Day?

AMay 8, 1945
BJune 6, 1944
CAugust 15, 1945
DSeptember 2, 1945

Answer Key

1.c
2.a
3.b
4.c
5.b
6.d
7.a
8.b
9.c
10.a

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