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WORLD WAR QUIZ

1. When did Adolf Hitler come to power?

a) in1923

b) in 1933

c) in 1938

Hitler came to power in 1933, when he became Chancellor of Germany.

2. When did the Second World War start?

b) in 1940

a) in 1939

c) in 1941

World War II started with the German invasion of Poland on the first of September, 1939.

3. What two countries were Germany’s allies?

a) Italy and Japan

b) Spain and Italy

c) Japan and China

4. Who was head of Germany’s Luftwaffe?

a) Herman Goering

b) Heinrich Himmler

c) Martin Borman

a) the Ministry of Information

b) the Intelligence Service

5. What does Gestapo stand for?

c) the Secret State Police

6. What two countries declared war on Germany after the Nazi troops invaded Poland?

a) Great Britain and the USA

b) Norway and Denmark

c) France and Great Britain

When Hitler invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany

7. What was the only WWII battle that was fought solely in the air?

a) the Battle of Britain

b) the Battle of Stalingrad

c) the Battle of Berlin

8. What does the word Blizkrieg mean?

a) a ‘lightning war’

b) a gas attack

c) an air raid

9. Who was Britain’s Prime Minister during the war?

a) Harold Winston

b) Winston Churchill

c) Margaret Thatcher

10. Which of the following death camps was the largest?

It was set up on the territory of Poland in 1940. More than 1.5 million people (mostly Jews) died in its gas chambers. In 1945 Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet troops.

a) Dachau

b) Auschwitz

c) Buchenwald

11. How many people lost their lives during the Second World War?

a) 30 million

b) 40 million

c) more than 60 million

12. When did the Japanese attack the American naval base at Pearl harbour?

a) In 1939

b) In 1941

c) In 1943

The Japanese started a surprise attack on the US Navy base at Pearl Harbour on the 7 th of December, 1941

13. Who said: ‘We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender! ’

a) Winston Churchill

b) Josef

Stalin

c) Franklin D. Roosevelt

14. What was the German code name for the summer attack on the Soviet Union in the 1941?

a) Operation Barbarossa

b) Operation Dragon

c) Operation Bismark

15. The German invasion of the Soviet Union began on the 22 nd of June, 1941. Who announced the news?

a) Josef

b) Lavrentiy Beria

c) Vyacheslav Molotov

Stalin

It was Molotov who announced the news. Stalin did not make a public speech until July 3, 1941.

16. How long did the Siege of Leningrad last?

a) 90 days

b) 300 days

c) 900 days

The Siege of Leningrad lasted for 900 days, from 08.09.41- 27.01.44. It was the most tragic period in the history of the city. By the winter of 1941-42 (the coldest on record) there was no heating or lighting, running water or drainage. Food rations were extremely low. Each person got only 125 grams of bread a day. By the time spring came, half a million people were dead.

17. Who wrote the famous Leningrad symphony?

a) Dmitri Shostakovich

b) Sergei Prokofiev

c) Alexander Alexandrov

18. How old was Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya when she was captured, tortured and hanged by the Nazis?

a) 30

b) 25

c) 18

19. Who was the highest-scoring fighter pilot in the Soviet Union?

a) Ivan

Kozhedub

b) Alexander Pokryshkin

c) Nikolai Gulayev

Ivan Kozhedub (62 kills). He was one of the only two Soviet fighter pilots to be awarded the Gold Star of a Hero of the Soviet Union three times during the Second World War. The other pilot was Alexander Pokryshkin (59 kills).

20. Which of the following was not a German fighter?

a) Messerschmidt

b) Spitfire

c) Fokker

21. What tank was considered the best tank in WWII?

a) T-62

b) T-72

c) T-34

22. What river does Stalingrad stand on?

a) The Ural

b) The Volga

c) The Don

a) Friedrich Paulus

23. Which German officer was promoted to field marshal the day before he surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad?

b) Wilhelm von Leeb

c) France Halder

24. The famous Russian rocket launcher, ‘Katyusha,’ had another nickname. What was it?

a) Stalin’s Organ

b) Ivan the Terrible

c) Thunderstorm

25. What was the biggest tank battle of the Second World War?

a) The Battle of Leningrad

b) The Battle of Kursk

c) The Battle of Stalingrad

26. What Nazi party member saved 1,100 Jewish people by giving them work in his factory?

a) Rudolf

c) Josef

Hess

Heinz

b) Oscar Schindler

He spent all his money to protect and save hundreds of Jews from Hitler’s gas chambers. He died penniless.

27. In 1943, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill met at a conference. Where did it take place?

a) In Cairo

b) In Teheran

c) In Yalta

28. Who was the Supreme commander of the Allied Forces at the end of the war?

a) Winston Churchill

b) Josef Stalin

c) Dwight Eisenhower

Later he became President of the United States

a) Great Britain’s

29. Whose armed forces fought and won the Battle of Berlin?

b) the USA’s

c) the Soviet Union’s

30. Which of the following countries was the last to surrender?

a) Germany

b) Japan

c) Italy

31. What happened to Adolf Hitler?

a) He committed suicide.

Adolf Hitler killed himself on April 30 th , 1945.

b) He fled to Argentina.

c) He was killed during an air raid.

32. What happened to Benito Mussolini, the notorious Italian dictator?

a) He was captured by the American troops and tried as a war criminal

b) He was captured and hanged by Italian partisans.

c) He mysteriously disappeared.

33. Which of these Nazi leaders was shot by an SS guard at his own request?

a) Goebbels

b) Himler

c) Kesselring

34. How many atomic bombs were dropped on Japan?

3) 3

a) 1

b) 2

The first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, killing about 70,000 people. The second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing about 40, 000 people.

35. Where were the war trials held after the war?

a) in Berlin

b) in Nurnberg

c) in London

36. How many years did the Second World War last?

a) 5 years

b) 6 years

c) 7 years

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We remember.