Questions in this quiz: World War II — Major Battles

Decisive battles of WWII: Stalingrad, Midway, Normandy, El Alamein, Kursk, the Battle of Britain, and the fall of Berlin. Generals, dates, and turning points across the European and Pacific theatres.

1. At which 1942 naval engagement did the United States sink four Japanese aircraft carriers in a single day, halting Japan's eastward expansion in the Pacific? — Options: Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle of the Philippine Sea
2. Which British general led the Eighth Army to victory over Rommel's Afrika Korps in the desert battle fought near a small Egyptian railway halt in late 1942? — Options: Bernard Montgomery, Harold Alexander, Claude Auchinleck, Archibald Wavell
3. What was the Allied code name for the overall plan to invade and liberate Western Europe in 1944, of which the Normandy landings were the opening phase? — Options: Operation Market Garden, Operation Neptune, Operation Overlord, Operation Husky
4. The German Sixth Army, which surrendered in early 1943 after being encircled on the Volga, was commanded by which field marshal? — Options: Erich von Manstein, Friedrich Paulus, Walther Model, Heinz Guderian
5. The July–August 1943 clash on the Eastern Front, famous for one of the largest tank battles in history, is known by the name of which Russian city? — Options: Kharkov, Smolensk, Kursk, Minsk
6. During the 1940 air campaign over southern England, RAF Fighter Command relied heavily on two single-seat fighters — the Hurricane and which other aircraft? — Options: Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Tempest, Bristol Beaufighter, Gloster Gladiator
7. Which Soviet marshal's 1st Belorussian Front led the central thrust into the German capital in April–May 1945? — Options: Ivan Konev, Georgy Zhukov, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Semyon Timoshenko