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A surprise attack in December 1941 saw Japanese forces attack the American naval base located in Hawaiian location?
Selele Shoal
Honolulu Bay
Pearl Harbor
The Anderson Bay
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What limited battle in 1937 saw the Chinese and Japanese begin their conflict that would evolve into World War Two after the two forces clashed over a bridge in Manchuria?
The Chiang Kai-Shek Bridge Incident
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
The Kublai Khan Bridge Incident
The Genghis Khan Bridge Incident
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What 1942-1943 battle resulted in over a million casualties as Soviet forces in Russia used urban warfare tactics to halt Germany's conquest of their homeland?
The Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Volsgrad
The Battle of Leningrad
The Battle of Stalingrad
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What 1942 naval battle was significant because of how it was largely fought between the planes of aircraft carriers since neither side's ships fired upon nor even sighted one another?
The Battle of China Sea
The Battle of the Bering Strait
The Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of Okinawa
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The Battle of Britain was significant in how it shattered what offensive called "The Lightning War" for its unmatched speed and ferocity?
The Wundwaffe
The Blitzkrieg
The Panzerfaust
The Goerenstaht
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The Battle of Britain has been called one of the first major military battles to be fought almost entirely by what type of forces?
Air forces
Naval forces
Armored cavalry
Submarines
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The Allied Invasion of Normandy was given what operational codename when it was in its conceptual phase?
Operation Iron Nails
Operation Bowler Hat
Operation Overlord
Operation Toadstool
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The nickname D-Day was attached to the Invasion of Normandy by its planners. What did that abbreviation actually stand for?
The Day
Doomsday
Drop Day
Dwight's Day
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The Battle of Kursk was a losing effort by the Germans because they had to abandon the fighting as a result of the Allies invading what island south of Italy?
Sicily
Minoa
Crete
Lilona
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What was the operational name for the German invasion of Soviet Russia at the outset of World War Two?
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Geldstadt
Operation Umreich
Operation Luall-Siegnan
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What battle of the Pacific Theatre of World War Two is called "The typhoon of steel" because of how fierce and violent it was?
The Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of Okinawa
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Iwo Jima
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Okinawa was the site of so much bloodshed because it was an ideal location for the Allies to launch what plan which would have seen the invasion of Japan instead of the use of nuclear bombs to win the war?
Operation Downfall
Operation Setting Sun
Operation Islander
Operation Bourbon
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One of the most questionable military options by the Allies was when they firebombed what German city in February 1945?
Frankfurt
Munich
Berlin
Dresden
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The Allied invasion of Sicily was largely successful thanks to what unorthodox plan which tricked the Germans into thinking the Allies actually intended on invading Greece?
Operation Mincemeat
Operation Rubber Duck
Operation Gilded View
Operation Scarecrow
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What October 1944 Pacific battle of World War Two is considered one of the largest naval battles in history with over 200,000 personnel involved in the engagement?
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Ordin Coast
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Iwo Jima
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Leyte Gulf which the Axis and Allies brutally fought over in 1944, is located in what country?
Vietnam
China
The Philippines
Japan
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Operation Torch was the codename for the Allied invasion of what continent?
South America
Australian Oceania
Africa
Europe
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What June 1942 battle saw the Allies turn the tide of the Pacific Theater of World War Two?
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Kurtza
The Battle of Taihei Straits
The Battle of Tokyo
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What is the name of this American naval officer who commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet which won the Battle of Midway?
Leonard Katzen
Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
Chester Nimitz
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What series of battles (also called the Ardennes Counteroffensive) saw the Germans mount their last desperate offensive at the end of 1944?
The Battle of Verdun
The Battle of the Bulge
The Second Battle of the Marne
The Battle of Berlin
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What is the name of this famous American commander whose tanks helped to bring the Allies a definitive victory at the Battle of the Bulge?
George Patton
Bernard Montgomery
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
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What 1945 five-week-long battle capped off the War in the Pacific as Allied forces claimed an island just south of the primary islands of Japan?
The Battle of Ryukyu
The Battle of Kyoto
The Battle of Sohei Landing
The Battle of Iwo Jima
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This image from the Battle of Iwo Jima is famously recreated in the memorial for what branch of the U.S. military in Washington D.C.?
The Navy
The Marine Corps
The Navy
The Air Force
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The First Battle of El Alamein in 1942 saw British and New Zealand forces rout what German general's forces from invading deeper into Egypt?
Klaus Barbie
Martin Bormann
Hermann Goring
Erwin Rommel
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At the Second Battle of El Alamein, what British general commanded the Eighth Army to turn the tables on the Axis forces?
Bernard Montgomery
Dwight Eisenhower
Clement Armitage
John Dill
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The Siege of Berlin caused the official downfall of Germany. What Allied Power made it to Berlin first to enact the Siege?
Spain
China
The U.K.
The Soviets
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The Siege of Berlin culminated with the suicide of Hitler on what day in 1945?
January 14th
April 30th
October 2nd
December 29th
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At Guadalcanal in 1942, the Allied forces launched their first major land-based offensive against Japan. Guadalcanal is a part of what country?
Solomon Islands
Papua New Guinea
Australia
New Zealand
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What 1942 aerial raid and battle against Tokyo was an American offensive meant to avenge the losses suffered at Pearl Harbor?
The Owens Raid
The Kirtsmith Raid
The Doolittle Raid
The Montgomery Raid
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The Doolittle Raid of 1942 was named after what American Colonel who planned and executed the raid?
James Doolittle
Maxwell Doolittle
Brian Doolittle
Sebastian O. Doolittle
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