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History Quiz

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In what city was Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of European Jews from the Holocaust, detained by Soviet agents, to be never seen again?

Bucharest, Romania Budapest, Hungary Prague, Czechoslovakia Warsaw, Poland

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Can you identify this somewhat unusual-looking World War II-era submachine gun?

Soviet PPD-40 American M55 Reising Swiss Furrer MP 41/44 French ETVS

Rama / Wikipedia

Over which body of frozen water did the Soviets maintain a precarious supply line of ice convoys to the besieged city of Leningrad?

Lake Ilmen Lake Onega Lake Ladoga Gulf of Finland

TASS

Which one of Japan’s wars began with an act of gekokujō – a “rogue” military action performed without orders from higher command? (Photo does not necessarily depict the correct answer.)

First Sino-Japanese War Second Sino-Japanese War Russo-Japanese War The invasion of French Indochina

Ministry of the Navy

In what region did the short-lived Allied ABDA Command operate during World War II?

Southeast Asia Mediterranean and North Africa China Western Europe

unknown photographer

Do you recognize this American fighter ace from World War II?

Francis “Gabby” Gabreski Richard I. Bong Thomas McGuire Jr. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington

U.S. federal government

Which of the Allied war conferences of World War II had the code name ARCADIA?

Tehran Conference Yalta Conference Atlantic Conference First Washington Conference

Joint History and Research Office

What was the “5:5:3 ratio,” established at the Washington Naval Conference in 1922?

The number of U.S., British and Japanese representatives on the committee designed to oversee the implementation of the treaty The ratio between the total tonnage of all naval ships Britain, the U.S. and Japan were allowed to maintain, respectively The ratio between the number of capital ships Britain, the U.S. and Japan were allowed to build, respectively The number of naval bases Japan, Britain and the U.S. were allowed to maintain in the Pacific, respectively

unknown photographer

In January 1940, Winston Churchill gave a radio address known as the “House of Many Nations” speech. What was he referring to by the phrase “House of Many Nations”?

The different parts and ethnicities of the British Empire The new world order after the war The different parties in the British Parliament The different classes of British society working for the common goal

International Churchill Society