Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Quiz Yourself on WWII History: Germany and Japan

1. Germany invaded what country on September 1, 1939?

Czechoslovakia

Poland

France

Belgium

England

2. September 2, 1945, saw what country surrender aboard the USS Missouri?

China

Russia

Japan

Germany

Hawaii

3. What was the name of the policy that Hitler used to annex other countries?

Lebensraum

Lederhosen

Liebe

Lebkuchen

Luffewaffe

4. Who was appointed by President Truman to oversee the occupation of Japan?

Eisenhower

MacArthur

Patton

Kennedy

Nixon

5. The severity of what battle made the United States wary of invading Japan?

Okinawa

Tokyo

Nagasaki

Hokkaido

Saigon

6. Who was prime minister of Great Britain when Germany began its invasion on September 1, 1939?

Churchill

Attlee

Macmillan

Baldwin

Chamberlain

7. What country invaded the Japanese held territory of Manchuria in August 1945?

Poland

Australia

Korea

Russia

United States

8. What military tactic created by the Germans allowed them take much of Europe so quickly?

Abwehr

Blitzkrieg

Comintern

Dolchstosstheorie

Edelweiss

9. The United States dropped atomic bombs on which Japanese cities?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Tokyo and Nagasaki

Tokyo and Hiroshima

Osaka and Nagoya

Yokohama and Osaka

10. What country signed a nonaggression pact with Germany that Germany then broke in 1941?

Poland

Ukraine

Russia

Azerbaijan

Turkey