Statistics for Decisive Battles of World War II

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
August 1942-February 1943, turning point on the Eastern Front, deadliest battle ever, and failure of German offensive	Battle of Stalingrad	95%
June 1942, turning point of the naval war in the Pacific	Battle of Midway	90%
September 1939, causes outbreak of war	Invasion of Poland	90%
September 1941-January 1944, longest and deadliest siege ever	Siege of Leningrad	85%
December 1941, opening of the Pacific Theater	Attack on Pearl Harbor	81%
February-March 1945, Americans capture Japanese fortress island in bloody battle, mass bombing of Japan made possible	Battle of Iwo Jima	81%
June 1944, reopening of the Western Front in France	Operation Overlord	81%
April-May 1945, last major battle in Europe, Germany capitulates	Battle of Berlin	78%
April-June 1945, final and deadliest island battle in the Pacific	Battle of Okinawa	77%
October-November 1942, turning point in North Africa	Second Battle of El Alamein	77%
August 1945, catastrophic knockout blow in the Pacific, Japan capitulates	Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	75%
June-December 1941, opening of the Eastern Front	Operation Barbarossa	75%
December 1944-January 1945, last ditch German offensive on the Western Front and deadliest battle between America and Germany	Battle of the Bulge	74%
July-October 1940, German invasion plans postponed indefinitely	Battle of Britain	73%
July-August 1943, failed German offensive leads to largest tank battle ever	Battle of Kursk	73%
February 1942, Britain's Southeast Asian fortress city falls to Japan	Battle of Singapore	73%
July-August 1943, opening of the Italian Campaign	Allied Invasion of Sicily	66%
August 1942-February 1943, turning point of the ground war in the Pacific	Guadalcanal Campaign	63%
October 1941-January 1942, Germany fails to defeat the Soviet Union in one offensive	Battle of Moscow	56%
August 1945, Japanese forces in China and Korea crushed, fighting rages after official Japanese surrender	Soviet Invasion of Manchuria	45%
May-June 1940, Germany swiftly conquers Western Europe	Case Yellow	42%
October 1944, decisive battle of the Second Philippines Campaign, largest naval battle ever	Battle of Leyte Gulf	33%
August 1944, Germany loses nearly all of its oil supply, Soviets break into the Balkans	Second Jassy-Kishinev Offensive	26%
June-July1944, decisive battle in the Mariana Islands, largest banzai charge ever conducted, and mass suicide of ethnic Japanese	Battle of Saipan	25%
November 1943, first of the bloody "island-hopping" battles in the Central Pacific	Battle of Tarawa	22%
June-August 1944, Soviet summer offensive in Belarus and Poland	Operation Bagration	22%
June-November 1942, renewed German offensive in Russia	Case Blue	16%