time left

History Quiz

Name: Band of Brothers Tour®
Brand: Beaches of Normandy Tours
Rating: 4.9 (569 reviews)

“Peace for our time” is a phrase often used to refer to vain British and French efforts to appease Hitler before World War II. What specific event did the phrase originally refer to?

The First Vienna Award The remilitarization of the Rhineland The Anschluss with Austria The German annexation of the Sudetenland

International Churchill Society

Can you identify this strange-looking World War II-era gun prototype?

Kokoda SMG Norm gun BSA Welgun Coender’s SMG

guns.fandom.com

What was the goal of the British “Oslo Mosquito Raid” of September 25, 1942, in Nazi-occupied Norway?

Bombing the local Gestapo headquarters Bombing a prison to enable captured resistance members and political prisoners to escape Dropping a large Norwegian flag to boost the morale of the civilian population Bombing a political rally led by Vidkun Quisling, the Nazi head of government

Imperial War Museums

What kind of experimental weapon did the Germans use to sink the Italian battleship Roma to prevent it from surrendering to the Allies?

A new air-dropped acoustic torpedo An infrared-guided bomb A radio-controlled bomb A radar-guided bomb

Italian Navy

Future Vietnamese leader Hồ Chí Minh led a guerilla campaign against Vichy French and Japanese forces in French Indochina during World War II. Which Allied nation gave him clandestine support in this?

Soviet Union China Britain United States

unknown photographer

How did aeronaut Thaddeus Lowe convince President Lincoln to make him the head of the U.S. Balloon Corps during the Civil War?

He sent a telegraph message to him from the air. He took him on a balloon ride. He flew over the White House in his balloon. He spied on Lincoln from the air and later told him exactly what he saw.

Harpers Weekly

Who was considered a “Mischling of the first degree” according to Nazi racial laws?

Someone who was not fully Jewish but had any amount of Jewish ancestry Someone who had exactly two Jewish grandparents and was not considered fully Jewish due to other criteria Someone who had exactly one Jewish parent and was not considered fully Jewish due to other criteria Someone who was born from a mixed Jewish-Aryan marriage

Museum of Jewish Heritage

What was the gist of the Laconia incident in the fall of 1942?

A German submarine attacked unarmed ships which were busy rescuing the survivors of an earlier sinking. An armed Allied vessel pretended to be an unarmed passenger ship, then attacked a surfaced German submarine which was holding its fire to allow evacuation. A German submarine sunk a ship then started gunning down the survivors in the water. Allied aircraft attacked German submarines while the latter were rescuing the survivors of a sunk ship.

Bundesarchiv

Babi Yar in Ukraine was the site of a large-scale massacre of Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, communists and Romani perpetrated by the Nazis in September 1941. What exactly IS Babi Yar?

A town A farm A ravine A lake

Lufftwaffe