History Quiz

What were the Luftwaffe’s initial targets in the first phase of the Battle of Britain in 1940? (Photo does not necessarily depict the correct answer.)

Can you identify this World War II-era German heavy bomber?

Where did the German Tiger II tank first see action?

Robert Losey was the first American soldier to die in World War II – and he was killed before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Where did he die?

The “Akutan Zero” was a Japanese Zero fighter that crashed in the Aleutian islands in 1942. Its recovery enabled the U.S. military to study it and come up with new tactics and plane designs to better combat the Zero. What happened to the plane afterwards?

Which nation had a never-realized 1946 plan named “Megaroc” to convert a German V-2 “vengeance weapon” rocket into a spaceship carrying a human passenger?

Which U.S. carrier helped the British war effort in the Mediterranean by helping ferry fighter planes to the besieged island of Malta?

Italian Fascism was much slower to adopt racial laws and ideologies than German Nazism, only publishing a “Manifesto of Race” in 1938. Which of these claims about the manifesto (and Fascist racism) FALSE?

The Évian Conference of July 1938 was held in France at the initiative of President F. D. Roosevelt. It was attended by 32 nations and 24 other organizations, and it addressed the plight of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany and Austria. The conference was a failure, with only two countries volunteering to accept large numbers of refugees. Which countries were these?

What were the names of the first two U.S. amphibious task forces to land on the shores of Sicily in the early hours of July 10, 1943, during the beginning of Operation Husky?