VE Day

On what date did Germany invade Poland?
1 September 1939
3 September 1939
6 December 1941
10 May 1940
Who was the British Prime Minister at the onset of World War Two?
Anthony Eden
Winston Churchill
Lord Halifax
Neville Chamberlain
What was the line of French fortifications on the border with Germany called?
Hindenburg Line
Wall of De Gaulle
Maginot Line
The Iron Curtain
Who was head of the Nazi SS?
Hermann Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Reynard Heydrich
Josef Goebbels
On what date was the German - French armistice signed?
22 June 1940
30 July 1940
8 May 1940
2 December 1939
What was the codename for the evacuation of the British armed forces from Dunkirk?
Operation Firework
Operation Boomerang
Operation Dynamo
Operation Loophole
What was the neutral French government after the armistice called?
Metropole
Vichy
Occitan
La Marseillaise
What was the most numerous British aircraft during the Battle of Britain?
Arsenal
Hurricane
Valiant
Spitfire
What was the German invasion plan of the Soviet Union called?
Operation Bismarck
Operation Barbarossa
Case Blue
Oberkommando Plan
Who was the British army commander during the North Africa campaign?
Bill Slim
Dudley Pound
Bernard Montgomery
George Marshall
What was the most mass produced tank of World War Two?
T-34
Tiger
Matilda
Sherman
On what date did Italy surrender to the Allies?
3 September 1943
6 September 1943
18 September 1943
16 May 1943
Which German Army Group did the Soviet Operation Bagration destroy?
Army Group North
Army Group Centre
Army Group South
Army Group East
What letter was given to German 'flying bomb' weapons?
X
V
Z
O
Which World War Two battle claimed the most casualties?
Okinawa
Kursk
El Alamein
Stalingrad
What was the codename of the final German offensive of the Eastern Front?
The Blitz
Operation Tiger
Operation Citadel
Operation Albrecht
When did the Warsaw uprising begin?
3 September 1944
1 August 1944
6 June 1944
13 April 1944
What was the decisive engagement of the Battle of Normandy?
Capture of Caen
Falaise Pocket
Operation Bodyguard
Operation Hedgerow
What was the name of the secret project for the US development of an atomic bomb?
Tube Alloys
Manhattan Project
Brooklyn Project
Operation Crossroads
On what date did Japan announce its unconditional surrender to the USA?
2 September 1945
30 August 1945
15 August 1945
8 May 1945
What was the longest battle of World War Two?
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of the River Plate
Battle of Midway
Where was the first Nazi concentration camp?
Dachau
Chelmno
Ravensbrück
Auschwitz
What was the name of the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
Enola Gay
Fat Man
Little Boy
Dauntless Dotty
What was the largest battleship used during World War Two?
Bismarck
Kongo
Yamato
Missouri
Which British General surrendered to Japanese forces at the Battle of Singapore?
Alan Brooke
Bernard Montgomery
Archibald Wavell
Arthur Percival
What was the codename for the Battle of Okinawa?
Operation Citadel
Operation Iceberg
Operation Samurai
Operation Hedgerow
Signed on 27 September 1940, what agreement created the Axis Powers?
Nuremberg Charter
Tripartite Pact
Ogdensburg Agreement
Triple Alliance
What was the mortality rate in Soviet Prisoner of War camps?
10%
30%
50%
85%
What was the fictitious name the SS used to establish a bank account in which they deposited money, gold and jewels taken from European Jews?
Max Heiliger
Lukas Müller
Ernst Fischer
Otto Schäfer
Who was Hitler's sucessor, he negotiated an end to the war with the Allies during his brief spell as Germany's president?
General Alfred Jodl
Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz
General Erich Raeder
General Otto Moritz Walter Model
Who was the Supreme Allied Commander who accepted the unconditional surrender of all German forces on 7 May 1845?
General Dwight D Eisenhower
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
General Omar Bradley
General J Lawton Collins
Where was the unconditional surrender of all German forces signed?
Berlin
Paris
Reims
Yalta
Where did the leaders of United States, Britain and the Soviet Union meet in summer 1945 to confirm the division of Germany and the nature of its occupation?
Yalta
Malta
Potsdam
Berlin
On what date was Churchill's famous 'iron curtain' speech?
5 March 1946
7 September 1945
8 April 1947
22 March 1951
Over which territory did Russia and Japan refuse to sign a peace treaty over?
Oki Islands
Liancourt Rocks
South Seas Mandate
Kuril Island
How many German troops were transferred from the eastern theatre of war while the surrender was negotiated?
50,000
100,000
1.8 million
850,000
How many Soviets died during World War Two?
2 million
25-30 million
17-20 million
30-35 million
On VE Day, how many consectutive ceremonies of thanks did London's St Paul's Cathedral hold, each attended by thousands?
4
10
6
12
On VE Day, how many people were crowded around Piccadilly Circus by midnight?
2,500
50,000
40,000
22,000
With the threat of redeployment looming, what did the British Liberation Army (BLA) jokingly redefine the acronym as?
Burma Looms Ahead
Best Left Alone
British Lingering Army
Better Left Alone
When did clothes rationing in Britain last until after the completion of Word War Two?
1945
1946
1949
1953
When did food rationing in Britain last until after the completion of Word War Two?
1945
1954
1948
1960
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt's sucessor in the USA, ordering that flags be kept at half mast during the victory celebrations as part of the 30-day mourning period for the deceased president?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Alben W. Barkley
Richard Nixon
Harry S Truman
In New York, how many police were mobilised to control the huge crowds that had massed in Times Square?
2,000
9,000
15,000
25,000
Who did the British public vote into power in the July 1945 General Election?
Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill
Sir Archibald Sinclair
James Callaghan
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