WWII in General Trivia Quiz

Answer: Stalin, Truman and Attlee

17/07 - 02/08/1945
Stalin and Truman - as well as Attlee, who replaced Churchill as British Prime Minister after the Labour Party's electoral victory over the Conservatives in July 1945 - had gathered to decide how to administer Germany, which had surrendered unconditionally nine weeks earlier. The goals of the conference included the establishment of the post-war order, the administration of Germany and countering the effects of war. (Suggestions that Germany should be dismembered were rejected).

One of the 'Big Three' had died (Roosevelt) and one had been defeated in an election (Churchill).

Answer: September 29, 1938 in Munich

The Sudetenland was an area of Czechoslovakia where ethnic Germans formed a majority of the population.

Answer: Emperor Hirohito

His reign was the longest on record of any Japanese emperor. His appellation is "Emperor Shōwa".

Answer: Vienna

Within days, the provisional city government was constituted and the political parties re-emerged. The situation in the city was far from encouraging.

Answer: Albert Speer

Berthold Speer, better known as Albert Speer, an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, was sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich". His two best-selling autobiographical works, detailing his often close personal relationship with Adolf Hitler, have allowed readers and historians an unparalleled personal view inside the workings of the Third Reich.

Answer: Claus von Stauffenberg

The attempt took place at the Führer's briefing hut at the military high command Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) near Rastenburg, East Prussia (today Kętrzyn, Poland) on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg's briefcase contained two bombs. He told Hitler“s butler that he needed to use the toilet and took the briefcase with him.

There he started priming the bombs but as he had to hurry he managed to prime only one. He hoped that activation of the one would activate the other one. He went back into the room and placed the briefcase under the table, announced that he needed to make an urgent phone call to Berlin, and then quickly left the room.

There was an explostion and he thought no one had survived. Though four people were killed and many injured, Hitler's injuries were only slight as he was shielded from the blast by a heavy, solid oak conference table. Colonel von Stauffenberg was executed the next day.

Answer: He was caught by Italian guerrillas and shot dead

On April 27, 1945, near the village of Dongo (Lake Como), just before the Allied armies reached Milan, as they headed for Chiavenna to board a plane to escape to Austria, Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were caught by Italian communist partisans. The following day, April 28, Mussolini and his mistress were both shot.

Answer: July 7, 1937

The Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937, when Japan attacked deep into China from its foothold in Manchuria (North-east China). On July 7, 1937, Japan, having occupied Manchuria since 1931, launched another attack against China near Beijing. The Japanese made initial advances but were stalled in the Battle of Shanghai.

The city eventually fell to the Japanese in December 1937, and the capital city Nanjing also fell.

Answer: Operation August Storm

Operation August Storm, or the Battle of Manchuria began on August 8, 1945, with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo; the larger invasion eventually included neighboring Mengjiang, as well as northern Korea, southern Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands .

Answer: F.D.Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from February 4, 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin.