Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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The destruction of the German 6th Army in this city marked the turning point of World War II | Stalingrad | 83%
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Crimean city where the second of the wartime conferences between the "Big Three" was held | Yalta | 77%
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City where prominent Nazis were prosecuted after the war | Nuremberg | 74%
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1945 firebomb assault on this Japanese city cost an estimated 100,000 lives and is possibly the most destructive air raid in history | Tokyo | 73%
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An estimated 100,000 civilians were killed in the brutal one-month battle that took place in this Filipino city | Manila | 71%
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Island city under British rule where 80,000 troops became prisoners of war when it surrendered to Japan | Singapore | 70%
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The bombing of this city was the first and the largest air raid on Australia | Darwin | 68%
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Exactly five years after it was captured by Italy, Emperor Haile Selassie made his formal return to this city on 5 May 1941 | Addis Ababa | 57%
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False reports of enemy aircraft approaching caused the coastal defenses of this American city to begin anti-aircraft bombardment that lasted for hours | Los Angeles | 55%
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The first of the WWII conferences between the "Big Three" Allied leaders was held in this city | Tehran | 53%
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Target of Germany's Operation Typhoon; Wehrmacht's advance was stalled on the outskirts of this city | Moscow | 49%
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City where Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated | Prague | 39%
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Port where German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee arrived after the Battle of the River Plate and where she was scuttled | Montevideo | 37%
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North African port city that was captured by the Allies in 1941 and withstood a 240 days siege by Rommel's forces | Tobruk | 37%
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First city on German soil captured by the Allies | Aachen | 27%
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