38 Created on May 27, 2023 By historyquiz_0yfuae World War II Quiz 1 World War II – Quiz 1 Enter your User Nickname to place your name on our LEADERBOARD, if your score qualifies. You can also OPTIONALLY add your email address, if you wish to receive occasional emails from HISTORYQUIZ.XYZ in order to inform you when new Quizzes or Polls are added. Note: We will only send ONE max email per 90 days, and will NEVER provide your email address to ANY third party. NameEmail 1 / 5 Most historians agree that the beginning shots of World War II happened on the day that Hitler’s Nazi Germany attacked Poland, on (Select correct day below) June 20, 1941 December 7, 1941 August 22, 1945 September 1, 1939 June 5, 1944 2 / 5 TRUE or FALSE: During the “Battle of the Atlantic” in WWII, the Allies lost more than 3000 merchant ships sunk (20,000+ merchant seamen lives lost) to Axis forces, mostly by U-boat sinking’s, and was the longest continuing battle of the war (1939-1945). False True 3 / 5 Please select below, ALL of the statements below which are TRUE concerning the impact of World War II. About 140,000 Allied soldiers were held as POWs by Japan Most historians agree that Japan's military killed more than 6 million Chinese, Indonesian, Filipinos (and others) during WW II. Total WW II deaths of both military and civilian in all theaters of the war, are conservatively estimated at over 50 million people. Over 400,000 Axis POWs were imprisoned in about 500 facilities in the United States during WW II. Most of these were German. Many of the non-officers were required to work, mostly in the US agriculture sector. Very few attempted escape, and only a handful were successful. Over 200,000 Allied prisoners were held in POW camps in Axis countries. 4 / 5 The Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe was appointed in late 1943, and was General: ? George S. Patton Omar Bradley Bernard Law Montgomery Douglas MacArthur Dwight D. Eisenhower 5 / 5 The first major land battle between United States & German forces during WW II, happened when (select below): Operation Torch , in North Africa in 1942 Attack on Midway, in 1942 D-Day, invasion of Normandy in 1944 Allied attack on Sicily, then Italy in 1943 Your score is The average score is 67% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Post navigation Revolutionary War Quiz 1World War II Quiz 2
