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What was the main purpose of the Nazi policy known as the "Final Solution"?
A) Economic recovery
B) Territorial expansion
C) Genocide of the Jews
D) Forming the Axis alliance
Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for most of World War II?
A) Neville Chamberlain
B) Clement Attlee
C) Winston Churchill
D) Anthony Eden
What strategic narrow strait was the focus of a major campaign between Australian and Japanese forces in 1942?
A) Solomon Islands
B) Strait of Malacca
C) Bismarck Sea
D) Kokoda Track
Which Japanese city was the second to be attacked with an atomic bomb?
A) Hiroshima
B) Tokyo
C) Yokohama
D) Nagasaki
Which of the following was a major Nazi concentration and extermination camp?
A) Dachau
B) Buchenwald
C) Auschwitz
D) Bergen-Belsen
Which of the following was NOT one of the Allied Powers during World War II?
A) France
B) Italy
C) United States
D) United Kingdom
Which country declared war on Germany and Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
A) Soviet Union
B) Canada
C) China
D) United States
Which country declared war on Germany just hours after the UK did in 1939?
A) United States
B) Soviet Union
C) Canada
D) France
What was the name of the British operation to evacuate troops from Dunkirk in 1940?
A) Operation Dynamo
B) Operation Torch
C) Operation Neptune
D) Operation Market Garden
Which country declared war on Germany and Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
A) Soviet Union
B) Canada
C) China
D) United States
Who was the highest-ranking Nazi official to be captured and tried at the Nuremberg Trials?
A) Heinrich Himmler
B) Rudolf Hess
C) Joseph Goebbels
D) Hermann Göring
What was the main Japanese fighter plane used during World War II?
A) Mitsubishi A6M Zero
B) Nakajima Ki-43
C) Kawasaki Ki-61
D) Kawanishi N1K
Which aircraft was nicknamed the "Flying Fortress"?
A) Spitfire
B) B-24 Liberator
C) B-17 Flying Fortress
D) P-51 Mustang
Who was the leader of the Free French Forces during World War II?
A) Charles de Gaulle
B) Philippe Pétain
C) Maurice Gamelin
D) Henri Giraud
Which naval battle was considered the turning point in the Pacific war against Japan?
A) Battle of Coral Sea
B) Battle of Midway
C) Battle of Guadalcanal
D) Battle of Leyte Gulf
Which battle is considered the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front between Germany and the Soviet Union?
A) Battle of Kursk
B) Siege of Leningrad
C) Battle of Stalingrad
D) Operation Barbarossa
Which battle was considered the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front?
A) Battle of Moscow
B) Siege of Leningrad
C) Battle of Stalingrad
D) Battle of Kursk
In which Pacific battle did kamikaze attacks first become a significant tactic used by the Japanese?
A) Battle of Midway
B) Battle of Leyte Gulf
C) Battle of Iwo Jima
D) Battle of Coral Sea
What was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union?
A) Operation Barbarossa
B) Operation Neptune
C) Operation Torch
D) Operation Weserübung
Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe?
A) General Patton
B) Field Marshal Montgomery
C) General MacArthur
D) General Eisenhower