1. June 28, 1914
   November 11, 1918
2. September 1, 1939
   June 1, 1941

The start of the war in Europe is generally held to be September 1, 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland; Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The dates for the beginning of war in the Pacific include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on July 7, 1937, or even the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on September 19, 1931.

1. Czechoslovakia
   Austria
2. Denmark
   Poland

Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbors, Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states.

1. June 22, 1941
   November 14, 1939
2. December 3, 1928
   March 1, 1953

The traditional Western and Soviet view was that Nazi Germany launched a sudden and unprovoked attack—Operation Barbarossa—on an innocent USSR on June 22, 1941.

1. May 24, 1943
   October 17, 1918
2. December 7, 1941
   July 4, 1931

On the morning of December 7, 1941 (December 8 in Japan), the Japanese Navy conducted a surprise military strike against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1. Francisco Franco
   Enver Hoxha
2. Hirohito
   Josef Tito

Franco's Spain maintained an official policy of neutrality during World War II, although the German navy was allowed to use Spanish harbours from 1940 to 1943, German agents gathered intelligence in Spain on Allied activity, and the Blue Division fought alongside the European Axis Powers against the Soviet Union. By the 1950s, the nature of his regime changed from an extreme form of dictatorship to a semi-pluralist authoritarian system.

1. Bernard Montgomery
   Subhash Chandra Bose
2. Charles de Gaulle
   Ivan Konev

Subhas Chandra Bose, was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a troubled legacy.

1. Adolf Hitler
   Benito Mussolini
2. Franklin Roosevelt
   Winston Churchill

Did you know that Churchill was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States? He also won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1. Semyon Timoshenko
   Rudolf Hess
2. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
   Heinrich Himmler

Hess flew solo to Scotland to try to negotiate peace with the United Kingdom, but he was taken prisoner and eventually was convicted of crimes against peace, serving a life sentence.

1. June 5, 1944
   April 3, 1939
2. August 6, 1945
   September 15, 1949

The two bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.

1. August 15, 1945
   April 7, 1952
2. June 9, 1940
   September 19, 1918

Emperor Hirohito announced his intentions to surrender on August 15, 1945, however the war didn't fully end until September 2, 1945. This is known as V-J (Victory over Japan) Day around the world.

1. Bernard Montgomery
   Adolf Hitler
2. Jan Smuts

"Before Alamein we never had a victory," said Winston Churchill later, "after Alamein we never had a defeat."

1. Hitler
   Churchill
2. Roosevelt

Churchill was an eloquent speaker. This quote was given just before the Battle of Britain and the complete text is: "... we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

1. France
   Malta
2. Spain
   England

It was awarded by King George VI of the United Kingdom in a letter dated April 15, 1942 to the island's Governor Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie, so as to "bear witness to the heroism and devotion of its people" during the siege it underwent in the early parts of World War II. The George Cross is woven into the Flag of Malta and can be seen wherever the flag is flown.

1. Normandy
   Bretagne
2. Brittany
   Corsica

The Normandy Invasion is also called Operation Overlord, The launch date of this invasion, June 6, 1944 , is now known as D-Day and is marked by the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy. By the end of August 1944 all of northern France was liberated.

1. 100
   500
2. 1000
   2000

Germany alone had nearly 1000 submarines sunk.

1. 1945
   1941
2. 1939
   1950

It is commonly believed that the invasion of Russia was one of Hitler's greatest strategic blunders. Up to that point the German war machine had conquered and subjugated all her enemies (except for Britain), while at the same time Russia had been providing her with much needed resources such as oil and wheat. England's position was deteriorating quickly and the United States was still neutral. The invasion of Russia cut off those precious supplies, and even though the Russians took unprecedented losses the Germans ultimately failed to take Moscow and suffered heavily in the winter that followed.

1. South Pacific
   Mediterranean Sea
2. Near the islands of Hawaii

The Battle of Buna–Gona was part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific Theater. It followed the conclusion of the Kokoda Track campaign and November 16, 1942 until January 22, 1943. The battle was conducted by Australian and United States forces against the Japanese beachheads at Buna, Sanananda and Gona.

1. HMS Victory and HMS Albion
   HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales
2. HMS Bulwark and HMS Daring
   HMS Defender and HMS Iron Duke

These two naval ships were sunk by land-based bombers and torpedo bombers of the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 10, 1941. It illustrated the effectiveness of aerial attacks against even the heaviest of naval assets if they were not protected by air cover, and led the Allies to place importance on their aircraft carriers over battleships.

1. France
   Japan
2. Egypt
   Italy

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel returned late to the battle from illness and tried to turn the tide, but General Montgomery and the British's advantage in personnel and artillery proved too overwhelming. Rommel managed to escape complete annihilation by withdrawing his men to Tunisia.

1. Captain Smith
   Wing Commander Johnson
2. Captain Lawson
   Wing Commander Guy Gibson

Operation Chastise was an attack on German dams carried out in May 1943 by the Royal Air Force, better known as the "Dam Busters." Using a specially developed "bouncing bomb" the Möhne and Edersee Dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr valley and of villages in the Eder valley; the Sorpe dam sustained only minor damage.

1. January 7, 1945
   May 8, 1945
2. January 21, 1946
   September 25, 1946

Victory in Europe Day, generally known as VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[1] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.

1. The Deep Blue Something
   Secret Agent Man
2. The Man Who Never Was

Glyndwr Michael was the homeless man whose body was used in Operation Mincemeat, the successful World War II deception plan that lured German forces to Greece prior to the Allied invasion of Sicily. The invasion was a success, with Allied losses numbering several thousand fewer than would have been expected had the deception failed. He had died after ingesting rat poison that contained phosphorus.

1. Fohnsee
   Haarschmuckfachgeschäft
2. Wermacht
   Rathaus

The Wehrmacht was consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force). The designation Wehrmacht replaced the previously used term, Reichswehr (1919–35), and constituted the Third Reich’s efforts to rearm the nation to a greater extent than the Treaty of Versailles permitted.

1. The Maquis
   The Creme
2. Angosian
   Cardassian

During the Occupation of France in World War II, The Maquis were composed of men who had escaped into the mountains to avoid conscription into France's Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO) to provide forced labor for Germany. To avert capture and deportation to Germany, they became increasingly organized into non-active resistance groups.

1. General Patton
   Adolf Hitler
2. General Douglas MacArthur
   Joseph Stalin

Douglas MacArthur, born in 1880, was a five-star American general and Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s. He played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II and received the Medal of Honor for his service there, making him and his father Arthur MacArthur, Jr., the first father and son to be awarded the medal.

1. The Battle of Moscow
   The Western Front
2. The European Front
   The Dunkirk Evacuation

Also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, in May-June 1940. When large numbers of Belgian, British, and French troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army during the Battle of France, Churchill called the events in France "a colossal military disaster", saying "the whole root and core and brain of the British Army" had been stranded at Dunkirk and seemed about to perish or be captured.

1. Channel Islands
   Devon
2. Scilly Isles
   Isle of Wight

Before German troops landed in June-July 1940, evacuation took place, although many young men had already left to join the Allied armed forces. Thousands of children were evacuated with their schools to England and Scotland.

1. M3100
   T34
2. MI6
   0678

The T-34 was a Soviet medium tank that had a profound and lasting effect on the field of tank design. Although its armour and armament were surpassed later in the war, it has been often credited as the most effective, efficient and influential tank design of World War II.

1. China
   France
2. Russia
   Japan

The treaty was signed in London on 26 May 1942 by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.

1. Coal mining
   Postal service
2. Fire service
   Tank manufacturing

Chosen by lot as 10% of all male conscripts aged 18–25, plus some volunteering as an alternative to military conscription, nearly 48,000 Bevin Boys performed vital but largely unrecognized service in the mines, many of them not released from service until well over two years after World War II hostilities ended.

1. C.S Lewis
   PG Wodehouse
2. J.R.R Tolkein
   Thomas Hardy

Early in his career Wodehouse would produce a novel in about three months, but he slowed in old age to around six months. He used a mixture of Edwardian slang, quotations from and allusions to numerous poets, and several literary techniques to produce a prose style that has been compared with comic poetry and musical comedy.

1. Magna
   Codex
2. Enigma
   Revolution

German military messages enciphered on the Enigma machine were first broken by the Polish Cipher Bureau, beginning in December 1932. This success was a result of efforts by three Polish cryptologists, Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, working for Polish military intelligence.

1. General Patton
   Hitler
2. Churhill

The complete quote is as follows: Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!

1. 10 million
   2 million
2. 29 million
   166 million

Although the exact figures are disputed, World War II casualties of the Soviet Union from all related causes number approximately 29,000,000. During the Soviet era information on casualties was considered top secret; only later in the Glasnost period was information on Soviet World War II casualties published.

1. Bazooka
   .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire rifle
2. .38 Smith & Wesson Special pistol

Bazooka is the common name for a man-portable recoilless antitank rocket launcher weapon, widely fielded by the United States Army. Also referred to as the "Stovepipe", the innovative bazooka was among the first generation of rocket-propelled anti-tank weapons used in infantry combat.