History Quiz

What was the codename of the April 1944 rehearsal for D-Day, held in England, that ended with the death of at least 749 American soldiers when the exercise was attacked by German boats?

Can you identify this armored vehicle designed and built in Nazi Germany?

Which nation sent supplies, air support, and eventually ground troops to help Greece during the Greco-Italian war of 1940-41?

What idea did American military aviation pioneer Billy Mitchell promote vigorously between the two World Wars?

In what year was Olympia, famous Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl’s documentary about the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, released?

What kind of British invention (that never saw combat use) had the “White Rabbit Number Six” as one of its codenames during World War II?

Which World War II-era Japanese puppet state’s emblem is this? (Incorporating that state’s national flag.)

What was the purpose of the experimental German Räumer S vehicle?

Operation Hercules (Unternehmen Herkules in German, Operazione C3 in Italian) was a planned joint German-Italian invasion that was eventually canceled. What was its target? (Photo does not necessarily depict the correct answer.)

In April 1945, top-level SS officers approached a Hungarian Zionist organization with a bizarre scheme: they would allow a million Jews to flee to Allied countries if the Zionists in exchange acquired certain goods, unavailable to Germany, from overseas. (The plan eventually fell through.) What name was the scheme known by?