SOLARTOYS MILITARY TRIVIA WORLD WAR 2 PAGE 1 |
Index at bottom of the page. 1. Sixty countries (3/4 of the world population) fought in World War II. It is estimated that 57 million people die, and more than half of these were civilians. The Soviet Union lost 21.3 million with 7.7 million of them being civilians. WHAT was the estimated loss from the United States? 2. Of the 57 million causalities, WHAT is the percentage that came from the Soviet Union, China, Germany, and Poland? 3. Poison gas was first used in World War I to break the trench warfare stalemate. During World War II, all the powers had chemical weapons. WHICH is NOT where it was used during World War II? 4. In 1936, Germany hosted the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hitler wanted to prove the superiority of pure Aryans. However, an African American won 4 gold medals. WHO was this American? 5. Which country barred the gates of Palestine to Jews fleeing the Nazis? 6. During WWI, what was 'shell shock' initially diagnosed as? 7. During WWI, when did British troops 'stand to' while in the trenches? 8. During WWI, what was the best kept secret in the French Army after the Nivelle Offensive? 9. During WWI, what vermin did both sides complain bitterly about? 10. What was the major reason trench periscopes were used? 11. What was the German plan involved invading Belgium in order to defeat France before fighting Russia? 12. Which of the following was NOT an Allied power? 13. Why did the United States enter the war in 1917? 14. What brought World War I to an end? 15. What was the name of the battle that threw the advancing German armies back from Paris? 16. What triggered World War I? 17. Which country helped Serbia in the Balkan Wars? 18. What was the battle in which the Germans surrounded Russian troops? 19. On 30 September 1918 Ludendorff told the German General Staff that Germany had no realistic hope of winning the war and would have to seek an armistice. Who, according to Ludendorff, was to sign it? 20. What name is generally given to the claim by German nationalists (including the Nazis) that Germany had not been militarily defeated in World War I but had been betrayed on the home front by subsersives, especially Socialists, Communists, liberals and labour leaders? |