History Quiz

“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?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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?

Who was the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in China Theater from 1942 onward?