1. Eleanor Roosevelt
   Jackie Kennedy
2. Barbara Bush

As the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor wasn’t content to merely socialize. She became an active first lady during the war, dedicating her time to numerous causes.

1. A jeep
   An ambulance
2. A plane

Travers was an ambulance driver, so when the French made a nighttime dash through German lines, she was driving the lead vehicle. Her truck was blasted with bullets but she still led thousands of French troops on a glorious escape.

1. spy
   pilot
2. engineer

The Germans considered Virginia Hall to be the most dangerous Allied spy of the war. She was an American who served with British special operations.

1. Pilot
   Sniper
2. Tank driver

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a deadly Soviet sniper, credited with an amazing 309 kills during WWII. She is called the deadliest female sniper ever.

1. A scuffle with a German soldier
   She shot herself on accident.
2. She was born that way.

In the years before the war, Hall accidentally shot herself on a hunting trip and doctors amputated her leg. During WWII, the Germans referred to her as "the limping lady" and they feared her intelligence-gathering skills.

1. nurse
   cookie baker
2. spy

Nancy Wake’s real-life exploits read like James Bond script. She became a secret agent who aided the French Resistance against the Nazi occupiers. And she was utterly and completely fearless.

1. She was on a most-wanted list.
   She was deathly ill.
2. The war was over.

Nancy Wake was so effective in the French Resistance that the German Gestapo put a price on her head. She was forced to leave the country ... but she would eventually return in full glory.

1. visit the White House
   kill a U.S. president
2. capture a Nazi general

In 1942, sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a Soviet celebrity and she was invited to visit the White House, where she met President Roosevelt and the first lady. She actually became friends with Eleanor Roosevelt.

1. They let her go.
   She was made into a double agent.
2. She was tortured and sent to a concentration camp.

Nearne was caught as a spy and sent to a concentration camp. Later, she escaped and rejoined the Allies.

1. She was an isolationist.
   She felt the war would hurt her domestic causes.
2. She was pen pals with Hitler.

Eleanor was an active proponent of human rights issues in America, and she knew a war would take momentum from her causes. She was, for a time, very distraught that her mission might be jeopardized.

1. Sniper
   POW
2. Pilot

Whittle was the only female American POW of the entire European Theater. She was captured after her evacuation plane was blasted out of the sky in 1944. The Red Cross later negotiated her release.

1. She walked.
   She parachuted.
2. She took a train, of course.

In true secret agent style, Nancy Wake parachuted into occupied France. There she helped coordinate the actions of thousands of resistance soldiers against the Germans.

1. They tried to make her a nurse.
   They immediately enlisted her.
2. They imprisoned her.

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a better shot than most men, but army officials wanted her to be a nurse. She kept pressing for military action and eventually got her wish.

1. She lobbied for easier immigration.
   She tried to block Jews from entering America.
2. She had no public stance.

Roosevelt was horrified by the way Hitler treated groups like Jews. She pushed American leaders to relax immigration rules so that more people could flee the terrors of Europe.

1. Flight and evacuation nursing
   Infantry
2. Manufacturing

Ott was a famous nurse in WWII. She was especially well-known for her innovations in flight nursing and was part of the first ever intercontinental air evacuation.

1. mitten maker
   politician
2. pilot

Mariana Drăgescu was a pilot in the famed Romanian White Squadron, which performed medical missions of all kinds during the war.

1. "The Screaming Mongoose"
   "The White Mouse"
2. "The Blind Elephant"

Gestapo officers called Nancy Wake "The White Mouse," because she was so good at evading Nazi police tactics. Wake lived until 2011.

1. Her plane was sabotaged.
   She was mocked in the press.
2. She received a hero’s welcome.

Roosevelt was greatly admired in Europe as a champion of the common people and of the war effort. She received a hero’s welcome throughout England.

1. 5
   more than 100
2. about 15

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was incredibly accurate, even compared to other snipers. It’s how she was able to kill more than 100 Axis officers during her killing spree.

1. “Women of Darkness"
   “Ladies of the Night"
2. “Night Witches"

Nadezhda Popova flew hundreds of missions with a bombing regiment that became known as the "Night Witches." Their favorite tactic? They turned off their plane engines before bombing runs so the Germans didn’t know they were coming.

1. cold
   fake leg
2. toddler

Hall had just one leg, and she nicknamed her prosthetic leg "Cuthbert." She expressed worries that Cuthbert might slow her down as she fled the Nazis ... but she got away.

1. She told them to have fewer children.
   She lobbied for day care.
2. She encouraged women to give up kids for adoption.

Roosevelt understood that working mothers needed more help. So she began advocating for government-sponsored day care in hopes of helping the women who were driving the home front.

1. Japan
   Canada
2. Italy

In America, Rosie the Riveter inspired women to work. In Canada, it was Veronica Foster, or Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl, who made big, deadly guns for Allied troops. She was a plainspoken woman who encouraged Canadian women to work as part of the war effort.

1. true
2. false

Lyudmila Pavlichenko killed hundreds of Germans and survived to tell about it. She later became a historian, one who’d already made plenty of history of her own.

1. inventing new technologies for war
   starring in bikini films
2. spying for the Germans

Lamarr was a major movie star in the war era ... and she hated the Nazis. She worked to develop radio technologies that prevented Germans from jamming American torpedo guidance. The system worked -- but was ignored until the ‘60s.

1. developed special landmines
   choked a German soldier to death
2. made breakfast for German troops

Wake was no bystander special agent. She actually strangled a German guard with her bare hands. Later in lfe she said that during WWII, "I was not a very nice person."

1. Her whole family was killed.
   She was imprisoned by the Nazis.
2. She became Hitler’s scapegoat.

Boyarski was a Polish teenager whose entire family was killed in the war. She persuaded a resistance group to let her join — and she became a famous fighter hellbent on revenge.

1. She became a secret agent.
   She became president.
2. She was executed.

Scholl and her brother distributed anti-Nazi flyers at their university. They didn’t go unnoticed — the Nazis accused both of them of treason. She was executed by guillotine.

1. White Rose
   Black Hand
2. Pink Bananas

Scholl was part of the White Rose, an activist group that opposed the Nazis. History has judged the White Rose as an example of bravery in the face of violent oppression. Just before the Nazis chopped off her head for treason, she shrugged and said it was best to die for a worthy cause.

1. She was captured.
   She was successful for years.
2. She died on her 100th mission.

Szabo was captured on her second mission and send to a concentration camp. Then, she was unceremoniously executed, a testament to the fact that women paid the ultimate price while fighting Nazi oppression.