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• Germany's invasion of which country precipitated the outbreak of World War II?

  • Belgium

  • Poland

  • Great Britain

  • France

• Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, famously began his first statement to the House of Commons during World War II by declaring, "I have nothing to offer but..."

  • “Blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

  • “A plea for basic human dignity.”

  • "Let there be an instantaneous end to tyranny."

  • "We can have "world peace" now."

• Which technology helped the U.K. defeat Germany’s months long air offensive against it in the Battle of Britain?

  • Stealth airplanes

  • Atomic energy

  • Radar

  • Rockets

• What item was the first to be rationed in the United States after Japan's conquest of the Dutch East Indies?

  • Tires

  • Pineapples

  • Gasoline

  • Sugar

• According to the year of their initial production, which name was assigned to one of Japan's most effective fighter aircraft?

  • Eighty- nine

  • Thirty-eights

  • Zeroes

  • Niners

• Which city in World War II was besieged for a total of nine hundred days?

  • Leningrad

  • Berlin

  • London

  • Stalingrad

• During WWII, the United States military utilized this language to encode messages that the Nazis never cracked. What is it?

  • Greek

  • Navajo

  • Mandarin

  • Yiddish

• In recognition of his valor in World War II, which U.S. president was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal?

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Jimmy Carter

  • Ronald Reagan

  • John F. Kennedy

• Where did the final major combat of World War II take place?

  • Okinawa

  • Stalingrad

  • Berlin

  • Singapore

• Which nation had the greatest number of military fatalities during WWII?

  • United States

  • Soviet Union

  • UK

  • Germany

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