History Quiz

What was the official name of the Dambusters Raid, a British night-time attack on important German dams with an experimental bomb?

Can you identify this World War II-era Japanese bomber?

Which of these was the intelligence agency of the Schutzstaffel (the Nazi Party’s paramilitary organization) and the Nazi Party?

In which Nazi-occupied European country did the daisy become a symbol of resistance during World War II?

Which of the Allied World War II conferences was codenamed RIVIERA? (Photo does not necessarily depict the correct answer.)

In early 1942, the U.S. knew that Japan was planning a major operation (the Battle of Midway). Initially, U.S. intelligence had two guesses about what the Japanese target was going to be. One guess was Midway. What was the other?

What was Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law, best known for during World War II?

What was the job of MI19, one of the sections of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, during World War II?

What was the gist of the so-called “Barbarossa decree,” a document issued by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German High Command, before the German invasion of the Soviet Union, with the idea originating with Adolf Hitler?

What was the operation codename of the Allied liberation of the Philippines in World War II?