Franklin D. Roosevelt was the American president for most of World War II. Who succeeded him after his death in April 1945?
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Germany invaded Poland on September 1 of which year, marking the start of World War II?
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The Japanese attack on which American naval base brought the United States into World War II?
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The D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, took place on the beaches of which region of France?
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Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of which country during World War II?
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The Holocaust was the systematic murder of approximately six million members of which group by the Nazis?
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The United States dropped atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities in August 1945?
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What was the German military strategy of rapid, overwhelming attack, combining tanks and aircraft called?
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Adolf Hitler led which political party to power in Germany?
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The Battle of Britain in 1940 was a sustained aerial campaign between the RAF and the air force of which country?
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Which Soviet leader led the country through World War II?
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The Nuremberg Trials, held after World War II, tried the leaders of which country for war crimes against humanity?
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The Allied landings in which country in 1943 opened the 'soft underbelly' of Europe and began the liberation of Western Europe from the south?
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Which region was rebuilt with billions of dollars from the Marshall Plan after World War II?
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Operation Barbarossa was the German code name for the invasion of which country in June 1941?
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The German surrender at Stalingrad in February 1943 marked a major turning point in the war. Who commanded the German 6th Army that surrendered?
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The Wannsee Conference of January 1942 was a meeting of senior Nazi officials convened to coordinate the implementation of what?
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The Lend-Lease program, through which the United States supplied war materials to Britain and the Soviet Union, was passed in which year?
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Operation Fortitude was an Allied deception campaign designed to mislead Germany about where the real D-Day landings would occur. It used a fake army group commanded by which general?
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The Battle of Kursk in July 1943, often called the largest tank battle in history, ended with a decisive Soviet victory. The German offensive was code-named what?
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