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On what date did Germany invade Poland?

1 September 1939

3 September 1939

6 December 1941

10 May 1940

Who was the British Prime Minister at the onset of World War Two?

Anthony Eden

Winston Churchill

Lord Halifax

Neville Chamberlain

What was the line of French fortifications on the border with Germany called?

Hindenburg Line

Wall of De Gaulle

Maginot Line

The Iron Curtain

Who was head of the Nazi SS?

Hermann Goering

Heinrich Himmler

Reynard Heydrich

Josef Goebbels

On what date was the German - French armistice signed?

22 June 1940

30 July 1940

8 May 1940

2 December 1939

What was the codename for the evacuation of the British armed forces from Dunkirk?

Operation Firework

Operation Boomerang

Operation Dynamo

Operation Loophole

What was the neutral French government after the armistice called?

Metropole

Vichy

Occitan

La Marseillaise

What was the most numerous British aircraft during the Battle of Britain?

Arsenal

Hurricane

Valiant

Spitfire

What was the German invasion plan of the Soviet Union called?

Operation Bismarck

Operation Barbarossa

Case Blue

Oberkommando Plan

Who was the British army commander during the North Africa campaign?

Bill Slim

Dudley Pound

Bernard Montgomery

George Marshall

What was the most mass produced tank of World War Two?

T-34

Tiger

Matilda

Sherman

On what date did Italy surrender to the Allies?

3 September 1943

6 September 1943

18 September 1943

16 May 1943

Which German Army Group did the Soviet Operation Bagration destroy?

Army Group North

Army Group Centre

Army Group South

Army Group East

What letter was given to German 'flying bomb' weapons?

Which World War Two battle claimed the most casualties?

Okinawa

Kursk

El Alamein

Stalingrad

What was the codename of the final German offensive of the Eastern Front?

The Blitz

Operation Tiger

Operation Citadel

Operation Albrecht

When did the Warsaw uprising begin?

3 September 1944

1 August 1944

6 June 1944

13 April 1944

What was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy?

Capture of Caen

Falaise Pocket

Operation Bodyguard

Operation Hedgerow

What was the name of the secret project for the US development of an atomic bomb?

Tube Alloys

Manhattan Project

Brooklyn Project

Operation Crossroads

On what date did Japan announce its unconditional surrender to the USA?

2 September 1945

30 August 1945

15 August 1945

8 May 1945

What was the longest battle of World War Two?

Battle of the Bulge

Battle of the Atlantic

Battle of the River Plate

Battle of Midway

Where was the first Nazi concentration camp?

Dachau

Chelmno

Ravensbrück

Auschwitz

What was the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

Enola Gay

Fat Man

Little Boy

Dauntless Dotty

What was the largest battleship used during World War Two?

Bismarck

Kongo

Yamato

Missouri

Which British General surrendered to Japanese forces at the Battle of Singapore?

Alan Brooke

Bernard Montgomery

Archibald Wavell

Arthur Percival

What was the codename for the Battle of Okinawa?

Operation Citadel

Operation Iceberg

Operation Samurai

Operation Hedgerow

Signed on 27 September 1940, what agreement created the Axis Powers?

Nuremberg Charter

Tripartite Pact

Ogdensburg Agreement

Triple Alliance

What was the mortality rate in Soviet Prisoner of War camps?

10%

30%

50%

85%

What was the fictitious name the SS used to establish a bank account in which they deposited money, gold and jewels taken from European Jews?

Max Heiliger

Lukas Müller

Ernst Fischer

Otto Schäfer

Who was Hitler's sucessor, he negotiated an end to the war with the Allies during his brief spell as Germany's president?

General Alfred Jodl

Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz

General Erich Raeder

General Otto Moritz Walter Model

Who was the Supreme Allied Commander who accepted the unconditional surrender of all German forces on 7 May 1845?

General Dwight D Eisenhower

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery

General Omar Bradley

General J Lawton Collins

Where was the unconditional surrender of all German forces signed?

Berlin

Paris

Reims

Yalta

Where did the leaders of United States, Britain and the Soviet Union meet in summer 1945 to confirm the division of Germany and the nature of its occupation?

Yalta

Malta

Potsdam

Berlin

On what date was Churchill's famous 'iron curtain' speech?

5 March 1946

7 September 1945

8 April 1947

22 March 1951

Over which territory did Russia and Japan refuse to sign a peace treaty over?

Oki Islands

Liancourt Rocks

South Seas Mandate

Kuril Island

How many German troops were transferred from the eastern theatre of war while the surrender was negotiated?

50,000

100,000

1.8 million

850,000

How many Soviets died during World War Two?

2 million

25-30 million

17-20 million

30-35 million

On VE Day, how many consectutive ceremonies of thanks did London's St Paul's Cathedral hold, each attended by thousands?

On VE Day, how many people were crowded around Piccadilly Circus by midnight?

2,500

50,000

40,000

22,000

With the threat of redeployment looming, what did the British Liberation Army (BLA) jokingly redefine the acronym as?

Burma Looms Ahead

Best Left Alone

British Lingering Army

Better Left Alone

When did clothes rationing in Britain last until after the completion of Word War Two?

1945

1946

1949

1953

When did food rationing in Britain last until after the completion of Word War Two?

1945

1954

1948

1960

Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt's sucessor in the USA, ordering that flags be kept at half mast during the victory celebrations as part of the 30-day mourning period for the deceased president?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Alben W. Barkley

Richard Nixon

Harry S Truman

In New York, how many police were mobilised to control the huge crowds that had massed in Times Square?

2,000

9,000

15,000

25,000

Who did the British public vote into power in the July 1945 General Election?

Clement Attlee

Winston Churchill

Sir Archibald Sinclair

James Callaghan

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