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Which city was the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in combat?
A) Nagasaki
B) Tokyo
C) Hiroshima
D) Yokohama
What was the main Japanese fighter plane used during World War II?
A) Mitsubishi A6M Zero
B) Nakajima Ki-43
C) Kawasaki Ki-61
D) Kawanishi N1K
Which battle was the largest tank battle in history and marked a turning point on the Eastern Front?
A) Battle of the Bulge
B) Battle of Kursk
C) Battle of Berlin
D) Battle of El Alamein
What was the major defensive line built by France along its border with Germany prior to WWII?
A) Siegfried Line
B) Atlantic Wall
C) Alpine Line
D) Maginot Line
What was the primary German fighter aircraft during World War II?
A) Spitfire
B) P-51 Mustang
C) Bf 109
D) Zero
Which country declared war on Germany just hours after the UK did in 1939?
A) United States
B) Soviet Union
C) Canada
D) France
Which operation was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941?
A) Operation Barbarossa
B) Operation Sea Lion
C) Operation Overlord
D) Operation Typhoon
Which country was NOT one of the Axis Powers?
A) Italy
B) Japan
C) Spain
D) Germany
Which Japanese city was the target of the second atomic bomb dropped by the United States?
A) Tokyo
B) Hiroshima
C) Nagasaki
D) Yokohama
What was the German project name for their atomic bomb research during WWII?
A) Projekt Uran
B) Heisenberg Device
C) V-Rocket
D) Operation Valkyrie
Which amphibious Allied invasion, often referred to as D-Day, began the liberation of France from Nazi occupation?
A) Operation Torch
B) Operation Overlord
C) Operation Market Garden
D) Operation Dragoon
What was the codename for the Germans' invasion of the USSR in 1941?
A) Operation Sea Lion
B) Operation Weserübung
C) Operation Barbarossa
D) Operation Valkyrie
Who was the British Prime Minister at the start of World War II?
A) Clement Attlee
B) Winston Churchill
C) Neville Chamberlain
D) Anthony Eden
Who commanded the American Third Army, which rapidly advanced through France in 1944?
A) Dwight D. Eisenhower
B) Bernard Montgomery
C) Omar Bradley
D) George S. Patton
Which country did Germany invade to start World War II?
A) France
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Poland
D) Austria
Which major city did the Soviet Red Army encircle and eventually capture in January 1943, marking a turning point on the Eastern Front?
A) Warsaw
B) Berlin
C) Stalingrad
D) Kiev
Which British intelligence project intercepted and decrypted messages from the German Enigma machine?
A) Project Mercury
B) Operation Minerva
C) Bletchley Park
D) Operation Ultra
Which country was known as the "Arsenal of Democracy" due to its industrial contribution to the Allied war effort?
A) United States
B) Soviet Union
C) United Kingdom
D) Canada
Which World War II battle is often referred to as the "last great German offensive"?
A) Battle of Kursk
B) Battle of the Bulge
C) Battle of Berlin
D) Siege of Leningrad
Which battle, taking place from August to November of 1942, marked Germany's farthest advance into Soviet territory?
A) Battle of Stalingrad
B) Battle of Kursk
C) Siege of Leningrad
D) Battle of Moscow
