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Which aircraft was the main heavy bomber used by the Royal Air Force and other British Commonwealth air forces?
A) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
B) Lancaster Bomber
C) B-29 Superfortress
D) Short Stirling
Which battle, fought between June and August 1942, marked the southernmost advance by the Axis powers in the Soviet Union?
A) Battle of Moscow
B) Battle of Stalingrad
C) Battle of Sevastopol
D) Battle of Kursk
Which of the following was a major Nazi concentration and extermination camp?
A) Dachau
B) Buchenwald
C) Auschwitz
D) Bergen-Belsen
What was the main code-breaking facility of the British during World War II?
A) Tower of London
B) MI5 Headquarters
C) Bletchley Park
D) Scotland Yard
Which battle was considered the turning point of the war on the Eastern Front?
A) Battle of Moscow
B) Siege of Leningrad
C) Battle of Stalingrad
D) Battle of Kursk
Where did the Doolittle Raid target in 1942 as a response to Pearl Harbor?
A) Tokyo
B) Hiroshima
C) Kyoto
D) Okinawa
Which major operation was launched by the Allies to retake France in June 1944?
A) Operation Torch
B) Operation Overlord
C) Operation Barbarossa
D) Operation Market Garden
Which city was devastated by the first atomic bomb used in warfare?
A) Nagasaki
B) Tokyo
C) Hiroshima
D) Kyoto
What was the primary purpose of the "Doolittle Raid" in 1942?
A) To capture Japanese territory
B) To destroy the Japanese fleet
C) To boost American morale
D) To test new aircraft
Which country was the first to declare war on Nazi Germany?
A) United Kingdom
B) United States
C) France
D) Poland
What major project resulted in the development of the first atomic bombs during World War II?
A) Manhattan Project
B) Trinity Project
C) Operation Paperclip
D) Project A-bomb
Which of the following cities was one of the two targets for the atomic bombings by the United States?
A) Kyoto
B) Hiroshima
C) Osaka
D) Sapporo
What was the major defensive line constructed by France along its border with Germany prior to WWII?
A) Atlantic Wall
B) Siegfried Line
C) Maginot Line
D) Alpine Line
Which Japanese city was the first to be attacked with an atomic bomb?
A) Hiroshima
B) Nagasaki
C) Tokyo
D) Osaka
What was the name of the US military's strategy of capturing select Japanese-held islands in the Pacific and going around others?
A) Leapfrogging
B) Island Hopping
C) Pacific Push
D) Naval Dominance
Which British operation aimed to deceive the Germans about the location of the Normandy invasion?
A) Operation Mincemeat
B) Operation Fortitude
C) Operation Double Cross
D) Operation Bodyguard
Which country did Germany invade to start World War II?
A) France
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Poland
D) Austria
Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for most of World War II?
A) Neville Chamberlain
B) Clement Attlee
C) Winston Churchill
D) Anthony Eden
What was the name of the peace treaty signed between Japan and the Allies in 1951?
A) Treaty of Versailles
B) Potsdam Declaration
C) Treaty of San Francisco
D) Yalta Agreement
Which of the following cities was one of the two targets for the atomic bombings by the United States?
A) Kyoto
B) Hiroshima
C) Osaka
D) Sapporo
