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  • QUESTION ONE
    This German officer was promoted to field marshal the day before he surrendered to the Russians at Stalingrad.

    Wilhelm von Leeb
    Franz Halder
    Friedrich Paulus
    Walter von Reichenau

  • QUESTION TWO
    Japanese wartime document described this island as "the fork in the road which leads to victory for them or for us."

    Guadalcanal
    Okinawa
    Iwo Jima
    Midway

  • QUESTION THREE
    This officer replaced Joseph W. Stillwell as American commanding general of the China theater.

    Douglas MacArthur
    Alexander A. Vandegrift
    John S. McCain
    Albert C. Wedemeyer

  • QUESTION FOUR
    The U.S. Army had planned to invade this Japanese home island in November, 1945.

    Honshu
    Kyushu
    Hokkaido
    Shikoku

  • QUESTION FIVE
    The Allies' drive toward Rome stalled for five months after an amphibious landing near this Italian city.

    Salerno
    Pisa
    Naples
    Anzio

  • QUESTION SIX
    Two months after the invasion of Normandy, a combined American-Free French force landed near this town, routed the German defenders and swept north up the Route Napoleon.

    St.-Tropez
    Sete
    La Rochelle
    Toulouse

  • QUESTION SEVEN
    This fighter plane proved superior to the Messerschmitt 109, its counterpart over the skies of England.

    Lightning
    Lancaster
    Mustang
    Spitfire

  • QUESTION EIGHT
    In June, 1941, British Commonwealth troopers defeated French Vichy forces in this Middle Eastern country.

    Syria
    Lebanon
    Jordan
    Iraq

  • QUESTION NINE
    Operation Barbarossa was the subtitle of Fuhrer Directive No. 21, the plan of attack on this country.

    Norway
    Soviet Union
    Greece
    France

  • QUESTION TEN
    This South American country declared war on Germany less than two months before the end of hostilities in Europe.

    Argentina
    Chile
    Paraguay
    Brazil

  • QUESTION ELEVEN
    A conference among Allied leaders at this site in 1944 composed the name "United Nations" for a post-war world organization.

    Teheran
    Bretton Woods
    Dumbarton Oaks
    San Francisco

  • QUESTION TWELVE
    A formal peace treaty between most of the victorious Allies and Japan came into force in this year.

    1955
    1947
    1952
    1949

  • QUESTION THIRTEEN
    When German emissaries gave beseiged American troops at Bastogne a surrender ultimatum, this general answered, "Nuts!"

    George Patton
    Matthew B. Ridgway
    Walton H. Walker
    Anthony C. McAuliffe

  • QUESTION FOURTEEN
    Hitler said, "it doesn't mean they will fight" when these two countries declared war on Germany after the invasion of Poland.

    Great Britain and Belgium
    France and Great Britain
    Netherlands and France
    Norway and Sweden

  • QUESTION FIFTEEN
    This Soviet general led the West Front counterattack against German troops arrayed against Moscow.

    Georgi K. Zhukov
    Alexsandr M. Vasilevski
    Semyon Timoshenko
    Konstantin K. Rokossovski

  • QUESTION SIXTEEN
    German aircraft pounded this island throughout 1941, but it did not fall under the onslaught.

    Sardinia
    Corsica
    Malta
    Crete

  • QUESTION SEVENTEEN
    In August, 1942, this officer took command of the British Eighth Army in North Africa.

    Bernard Law Montgomery
    Louis Mountbatten
    Archibald Wavell
    Bertram H. Ramsay

  • QUESTION EIGHTEEN
    The special American force known as Merrill's Marauders gained fame fighting where?

    Philippines
    Malaysia
    Okinawa
    Burma

  • QUESTION NINETEEN
    About 1,400 Australian soldiers faced more than 4,000 Japanese troops in a defense of this location.

    New Caledonia
    Rabaul
    Tulagi
    Fiji

  • QUESTION TWENTY
    The Canadian First Army met fierce resistance from German troops in this country during the final month of combat in Europe.

    Austria
    Netherlands
    Czechoslovakia
    Poland

  • QUESTION TWENTY-ONE
    Winston Churchill remarked, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." after this action.

    Battle of Britain
    Battle of Stalingrad
    Invasion of Normandy
    Dunkerque

  • QUESTION TWENTY-TWO
    After fierce fighting, United States Marines captured this heavily fortified island in March, 1945.

    Okinawa
    Guadalcanal
    Iwo Jima
    Palau

  • QUESTION TWENTY-THREE
    This Japanese officer suggested a plan for a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.

    Kiyohida Shima
    Tomoyuki Yamashita
    Hideki Tojo
    Isoroku Yamamoto

  • QUESTION TWENTY-FOUR
    This German general surrendered to the Allies on May 7, 1945, this signaling the end of hostilities in Europe.

    Alfred Jodl
    Gerd von Rundstedt
    Albert Kesselring
    Heinrich Himmler

  • QUESTION TWENTY-FIVE
    This officer headed the American occupation of Japan at the conclusion of the war in the Pacific.

    James Doolittle
    Curtis LeMay
    Douglas MacArthur
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

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