World War II Trivia

How much history do you know about WWII?
Quiz by DerMan4
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Last updated: June 4, 2014
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First submittedJanuary 22, 2013
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Leader of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
Leader of Fascist Italy
Benito Mussolini
Prime Minister of Imperial Japan
Hideki Tojo
Soviet Dictator
Joseph Stalin
The British's "Great Appeaser"
Neville Chamberlain
The German invasion of ______ on September 1, 1939 started World War Two.
Poland
The coastal French city from which the Allied armies retreated across the channel to England
Dunkirk
In "The Battle of Britain", The RAF and the German _________ battled for air superiority.
Luftwaffe
Operation Barbarossa was the German invasion of whom?
The Soviet Union
The United States entered the war after the Japanese bombing of _____ ______.
Pearl Harbor
Germany's "Desert Fox" in North Africa
Erwin Rommel
The Allied invasion of France, on June 6, 1944, occurred in what French region?
Normandy
The Battle of __________ was the turning point in the war in Eastern Europe.
Stalingrad
The German capital of ______ was captured, ending the war in Europe.
Berlin
The city of __________ was the first to be atomic bombed.
Hiroshima
This era started at the end of the war
Cold War
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Level 65
Dec 10, 2012
Normandy isnt accepted
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Level 21
Dec 10, 2012
this quiz needs to be sorted out. Firstly, Panzer means armour or tank, secondly it's NORMANDY not NORMANY and accept british spellings
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Level 37
Dec 10, 2012
youre right on normandy, but it's pretty obvious that the other question gives the staple german tank and asks for the american counterpart
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Level 67
Mar 23, 2013
every german tank is panzer, so it is not obvious
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Level 47
Apr 8, 2013
They are right!

Panzer just means Tank or Armour in general.

Better (but far from perfect) would be

German : Tiger :: American : Sherman

since the Tiger is the best known german tank of WWII

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Level 67
Dec 10, 2012
And if you want to nitpick further, the top three Axis powers "consisted of," rather than "included," Germany, Japan and Italy; you need a space after "Union"; "French" not "Franch"; capitalize "Blood"; insert "the" after "majority of"; and find a better way to phrase "Spain was slammed into civil war."
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Level 34
Dec 10, 2012
I will be fixing all the mistakes, I was rushed while creating the quiz
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Level 33
Jan 22, 2013
If you could also accept the non-American spelling of harbour.
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Level 34
Jan 22, 2013
That will work now.
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Level 68
Sep 5, 2013
Am I the only one noticing that the Spanish Civil War is not part of WW2?
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Level 67
May 2, 2014
Great quiz! Thanks for making it. :)
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Level 34
Jun 4, 2014
I made the quiz cover more, and it is now in chronological order.
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Level 74
Jun 18, 2017
For the last question "atomic era" or "nuclear era" make a lot of sense.
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Level 37
Jul 24, 2017
WHY? - Because YOU say so?

What started, to millions of people, after WWII was the COLD WAR.

What you speak of did not really come to fruition until the later '50s/'60s. (And to all of you who are going to point out the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yes that did

occur, but that did not herald in the Nuclear AGE).

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Level 56
Dec 6, 2022
Sheesh, no need to be so aggressive
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Level 56
Sep 4, 2018
French name of Dunkirk (Dunquerque) should be accepted cos it is actually a French city..
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Level 20
Feb 5, 2020
To Easy
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Level 68
Nov 17, 2020
Don't know why this isn't a featured quiz. There is a bit too much time though.
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Level 65
Mar 1, 2023
I really like this quiz, but I’m guessing it isn’t featured because it’s a bit too easy, and almost all of the questions are on the already-featured WWII quizzes.