Related trivia: The fascist leaders of Spain and Portugal both stayed in power from before WW2 until 1975 and 1968, respectively. They were considered anti-communist allies of the Western powers that defeated the fascists in the war.
The clue gives away the answer for #12. Why would it be "at least" and not just the exact number? If I didn't already know the answer, that'd definitely tip me off.
Umm...yes. As per those good people at Wikipedia - "The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day".
Despite being one of the original signers of a letter urging FDR to develop atomic weapons, Einstein was considered to be a security risk, and was never even invited to participate in the Manhattan Project. Frankly, Einstein wasn't at that point a foremost expert in the nascent field of Nuclear Physics, not that he wouldn't have been able to learn had he been offered the chance.
Kind of sad that (as of now) 25% of people think China didn't fight in WWII. I think a lot of what happened in East Asia gets very little attention in Europe/USA. I had to go out of my way to learn about much of it anyway, and I'm sure it's more widely-known in the USA than in Europe because of their closer involvement.
I think several people who answered that question wrong were thinking that China technically fought in the Sino-Japanese war, not WWII (similar to how Finland didn't officially fight in WWII but they fought in the Winter War)
I got that question correct, but I have to agree with Alex. At least in the US, the only part of the eastern theater that we learn is the US vs. Japan naval engagement.
Also probably due to the Wests education policies and usually sticking away from the Japanese invasion of China. But I know people on JetPunk can be really clever.
I think Johnny is probably right, but it should be well-known that that Sino-Japanese War absolutely was part of WWII, even if not "officially" so at the outset.
I contemplated for a few seconds whether Japan had already conquered all of China by 1939, and so if there was technically a China left to participate in the war.
What a strange 'correction'. The official names of the two countries that invaded Poland were the German Reich and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The short form of those names is Germany and the Soviet Union respectively. So the question is absolutely correct. The 'Third Reich' was a rhetorical device used in Nazi propaganda, but was never the name of the country. Meanwhile Russia, was one of the constituent parts of the Soviet Union, in the form of the Russian Soviet Federative Republic, but was not the sovereign state which invaded Poland.
This is very misleading and the correct answer should be "false".
Either write Russia and Germany invaded Poland or Soviet Union and Third Reich (or German Reich) invaded Poland.