History Quiz

Which of these was the codename of the hardest Japanese communication cypher that was broken by Magic, the U.S. cryptanalysis project in World War II?

Can you identify this World War II-era machine gun?

In which European country did some World War II resistance members become known as “cursed soldiers,” who fought against Soviet “liberation” for years, sometimes for over a decade?

U.S. warships of what category were given the names of large American cities and towns during World War II? (Photo does not necessarily depict the correct answer.)

In which European nation was this the flag of a major local right-wing nationalist party in the years leading up to World War II?

In which section of the Battle of the Bulge did the U.S. 99th Infantry Division, nicknamed the “Battle Babies,” distinguish themselves?

What was a “motti” in Finland during the Winter War and the Continuation War against the Soviet Union? (Photo does not necessarily depict the correct answer.)

When he was a young officer between the World Wars, which Civil War commander did future General Omar Bradley consider an example?

The Balkan Pact, signed by Romania, Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey in 1934, was one of the diplomatic agreements that shaped Europe in the years just before World War II. What was the main goal of the pact?

Can you identify the leading Nazi who delivered this paragraph in a speech in October 1943? “One principle must be absolute for the SS man: we must be honest, decent, loyal and friendly to members of our blood and to no one else. What happens to the Russians, what happens to the Czechs, is a matter of utter indifference to me. Such good blood of our own kind as there may be among the nations we shall acquire for ourselves, if necessary by taking away the children and bringing them up among us. Whether the other peoples live in comfort or perish of hunger interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture; apart from that it does not interest me. Whether or not 10,000 Russian women collapse from exhaustion while digging a tank ditch interests me only in so far as the tank ditch is completed for Germany.”