World War Trivia Quiz
1) What two countries were already involved in a military conflict before the beginning of World
War II?
2) What was the longest battle of World War II?
3) What was the first Nazi concentration camp?
4) In which battle did the Axis powers lose about a quarter of their total troops on the Eastern
Front?
5) What was the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
6) What country lost the most lives in World War II?
7) What research and development project produced the first nuclear weapons during World
War II?
8) What country sent reinforcements in the form of "Division Azul" to aid Germany in its WWII
attack on the Soviet Union?
9) What was the code name for the Battle of Normandy?
10) What was the largest battleship of World War 2?
11) What was the first action the Nazis took against Jews?
12) Which battle involved the largest engagement of tanks in history?
13) After World War II, Germany was divided into how many zones of occupation?
14) What was the last major battle of World War II?
15) What was the second city the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on?
16) On which beach did the Americans run into a firestorm of resistance during the D-Day
landings?
17) What was the Nazi code name for a planned invasion of the United Kingdom during WW2?
18) In a Nazi concentration camp, a pink triangle identified a prisoner as ....
19) What English code breaker created a machine that helped to decrypt Nazi
20) Where was the first atom bomb tested?
Answers
1) Japan and China
2) Battle of the Atlantic
3) Dachau
4) Battle of Stalingrad
5) Enola Gay
6) Soviet Union
7) Manhattan Project
8) Spain
9) Operation Overlord
10) Yamato
11) Boycott of Jewish businesses
12) Battle of Kursk
13) 4
14) Battle of Okinawa
15) Nagasaki
16) Omaha
17) Operation Sea Lion
18) Homosexual
19) Alan Turin
20) New Mexico