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History Quiz
When did the isolationist pressure group America First Committee dissolve itself?
In late 1939, a few months after World War II broke out in Europe
About a week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
In late 1942, after Allied (including American) landings in North Africa
In the late summer of 1944, after the Normandy landings
New York Post
Can you identify this World War II-era submachine gun?
American M55 Reising
Swiss SIG MKMO
Soviet PPD-40
French ETVS
Curiosandrelics / Wikipedia
In which of these four places did young Winston Churchill NOT serve while he was in the army?
North Africa
India
China
Cuba
Imperial War Museums
The Battle of the River Plate in December 1939 was one of the first naval engagements of World War II. A German cruiser was damaged by British ships and forced to take shelter in the port of a neutral country. The country did not allow the ship to stay more than three days; the ship was scuttled so it wouldn’t have to face what the captain felt was a hopeless battle waiting at sea. Which country was the port in?
Uruguay
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Imperial War Museums
Which important Nazi functionary claimed during the Nuremberg Trials that he considered killing Hitler?
Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and War Production
Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, Chief of the Kriegsmarine High Command from 1943 onward
Hermann Göring, Chief of the Luftwaffe High Command
Franz von Papen, a politician instrumental in Hitler’s rise to power
Raymond D’Addario
The Nobel Prize was not awarded for several years during World War II. The practice was only picked up again in December 1944, but the ceremony could not be held in Stockholm due to the war. Where was it held instead?
London
Washington, D.C.
New York
Paris (already liberated by the time)
public domain
Do you recognize this British general who made a very important contribution during World War II?
Claude John Eyre Auchinleck
Alan Francis Brooke
Arthur Travers Harris
Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding
Imperial War Museums
The late 1941 sinking of the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser HMS Repulse by Japanese aircraft was a major blow to British operations in the Pacific. Where were the two ships sunk?
In the Java Sea
Near the Philippines
Off the coast of Thailand
Off the coast of British Malaya
Naval History & Heritage Command
What was the goal of Operation Attila, a German war plan hatched during World War II and named after Attila the Hun?
Invading Sweden to guarantee the supply of strategic materials
Occupying Rome and turning it into a fortress city
Occupying Vichy France if it tried to rejoin the Allies or if the Allies tried to invade it
Conducting a limited invasion of the Soviet Union, capturing some strategically important territory and then forcing Stalin to the negotiation table
State Treasury of Poland
What did Winston Churchill, Home Secretary at the time, do on the site of a police siege in London in 1911?
He ordered the police to assault the house held by the criminals.
He ordered the fire department not to put out a burning house while the criminals were inside.
He ordered the bombardment of the house with artillery.
He ordered peaceful negotiations to get the criminals to surrender.
The Illustrated London News
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