Statistics for History of the 1940s

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Year	Incident	Answer	% Correct
1944	The D-Day invasion takes place in this region of France	Normandy	84%
1941	Japan's first salvo upon the United States takes place in this state	Hawaii	82%
1941	A major siege begins in this Russian city	Leningrad	80%
1942	America's attempt to develop an atomic bomb is given this codename	Manhattan Project	76%
1948	This sporting event is held for the first time since the beginning of WWII	Olympic Games	74%
1940	This Marxist revolutionary is assassinated	Leon Trotsky	65%
1948	This Indian political figure is assassinated	Mahatma Gandhi	65%
1946	The first meeting of this transnational organisation is held	United Nations	65%
1944	The eruption of this volcano kills 26 people in Italy	Mount Vesuvius	59%
1949	This dystopian novel is published	1984	58%
1945	A plane of this name drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima	Enola Gay	58%
1947	A memoir by this war victim is first published	Anne Frank	56%
1940	Germany begins to wage this air battle over England	Battle of Britain	56%
1946	This politician is elected President of Argentina	Juan Perón	51%
1943	A Saturday Evening Post cover girl gains this nickname	Rosie the Riveter	19%
1949	A large sovereign state in Asia is officially given this name	People's Republic of China	16%
1943	This groundbreaking musical becomes Broadway's biggest hit to date	Oklahoma!	13%
1942	This Hollywood actress dies in a plane crash following a war bond rally	Carole Lombard	12%
1947	Christian Dior debuts this new postwar form of fashion	The New Look	5%
1945	This regional alliance of African and Asian nations is formed	Arab League	4%