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World War II

25 answers | 70 clues

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Italy 8x 25.0% stumper $638 avg J:1 DJ:7

DJ $100 DD 1987 In the early North African campaign, most of Rommel's troops were from this country

DJ $600 1990 Invading American forces 1st set foot on the European mainland in this country, not France

DJ $1,000 1996 On Sept. 3, 1943 the Allies crossed the Strait of Messina to attack the mainland of this country

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Stalingrad 4x 25.0% stumper $775 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 1990 A Soviet victory in this battle ended Germany's eastward drive

J $600 2021 The 5-month battle of this city on the Volga halted the Nazi advance into Russia & turned the war's tide in the east

DJ $1,500 DD 2008 Sgt. Yakov Pavlov & a dozen Russian soldiers held out for more than 50 days in the center of this city in 1942 & never lost it

Pearl Harbor 4x $225 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $100 1998 The U.S. stationed its Pacific fleet in this harbor during the war

DJ $200 1996 On Nov. 26, 1941 a Japanese task force left the Kuril Islands to attack this American site

DJ $200 1991 By July 1941 the Japanese referred to this forthcoming attack as Operation Hawaii

Dunkirk 4x $800 avg DJ:4

DJ $600 1998 Fishing & pleasure boats were part of the flotilla used in the May-June 1940 evacuation from this port

DJ $1,000 DD 1997 About 40,000 men were left in this French port after the last evacuation ship left June 4, 1940

DJ $800 2018 June 4, 1940:The last of more than 300,000 Allied troops are evacuated from this port

the Missouri 4x 50.0% stumper $550 avg J:2 FJ:2

J $300 1990 U.S. battleship on which the Japanese surrendered

J $800 2021 Thisbattleship that participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima was the site of Japan's surrender

FJ 2013 Because time was short, only this ship's starboard side, used for boarding, was repainted September 1, 1945

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Tokyo 3 Tojo 3 the Arizona 3 Hermann Goering 3 December 7, 1941 3 declare war on the United States 3 Yalta 2 the Soviet Union 2 the Himalayas 2 the Battle of Stalingrad 2 Sicily 2 propaganda 2 Joseph Goebbels 2 Hiroshima 2 Guadalcanal 2 gold 2 Czechoslovakia 2 Axis Sally 2 Rudolf Hess 2 assassinate Hitler 2

World War I

14 answers | 52 clues

Must-Know (1)

Poland 8x 12.5% stumper $475 avg J:3 DJ:5

J $200 2022 In September 1939 this country was invaded from 2 fronts & the war was on

DJ $800 2008 Marshal Rydz-Smigly was the commander in chief of this country's army when it was invaded in 1939

DJ $1,000 DD 1988 In 1939, a secret German-Soviet agreement provided for dividing this country between them

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the Battle of the Bulge 6x $1,000 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $800 2006 This battle & German counterattack began on December 16, 1944

DJ $1,000 1995 This December 1944 battle was the largest fought on land by U.S. forces in WWII

DJ $800 1991 Also known as the Ardennes Offensive, it was the Germans' last major assault of the war

the Bismarck 5x $575 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $400 2006 On May 27, 1941 this German battleship was sunk in the East Atlantic

DJ $500 DD 1986 World War II battleship that's the title subject of this song:"For six long days and weary nights they tried to find her trail Churchill told the people 'Put every ship a-sail'Cause somewhere on that ocean...'"

FJ 1991 H.M.S. Hood, then the world's largest warship, was sunk by this battleship May 24, 1941

Russia 5x 20.0% stumper $420 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $100 1989 With 12 German planes downed, Lt. Lilya Litvak of this country was the war's top female ace

DJ $600 1987 World War II broke out in Europe just 9 days after Germany signed a non-aggression pact with this country

DJ $400 2004 In September 1944 this country's forces entered Bulgaria, which promptly switched to the Allied side

Winston Churchill 5x $400 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $200 1993 During the Potsdam Conference of 1945, this British prime minister was replaced by Clement Attlee

DJ $800 1987 He won 1953 Nobel Literature Prize for his account of World War II

J $200 2006 When this P.M. visited the White House in 1941, he startled the staff by spending much of his time in the nude

Okinawa 4x 25.0% stumper $1,650 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 1992 Over 1500 kamikaze flyers lost their lives trying to defend this largest of the Ryukyu Islands

DJ $1,200 2005 The battle for this island in the Ryukyus resulted in 12,500 U.S. deaths, the heaviest toll in the Pacific war

DJ $2,000 2018 June 21, 1945:The long, bloody U.S. campaign for this Japanese island in the Ryukyus ends

Iwo Jima 4x $433 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $200 1993 This strategic island was less than 8 sq. miles, had no fresh water & featured Mt. Suribachi, an extinct volcano

J $500 1998 In early 1945, 6,800 Marines were killed while seizing Mount Suribachi & the rest of this island

FJ 2017 The book "From the Volcano to the Gorge" tells the story of this World War II battle

Worth Knowing (7)

Charles de Gaulle 3 the resistance 2 Rosie the Riveter 2 Ireland 2 George Patton 2 the Burma Road 2 General MacArthur 2

Other

21 answers | 50 clues

Should-Know (1)

Mussolini 7x $314 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $200 1986 Ironically, he was named after Mexican liberator Benito Juarez

J $600 2006 On April 28, 1945 Clara Petacci died alongside this man, her lover for more than a decade

DJ $200 1995 After his rescue by German airborne troops, this Italian dictator set up the Salo Republic on Lake Garda

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Canada 3 Irving Berlin 3 England 3 The Book Thief 2 Lend-Lease 2 Jimmy Doolittle 2 Glenn MIller 2 Germany 2 Fiat 2 Corregidor 2 Chiang Kai-shek 2 Burma 2 Australia 2 a tank 2 patrol torpedo 2 Tito 2 the Mustang 2 the Luftwaffe 2 the Coral Sea 2 Joseph Stalin 2

Ancient

4 answers | 17 clues

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Rommel 10x $640 avg J:1 DJ:9

DJ $200 1987 Germany's "Desert Fox"

DJ $600 1993 The British defeated this German general at El Alamein, Egypt in November 1942

DJ $1,000 1991 When the Allies landed at Normandy, this German who was the defending general was back in Germany

Worth Knowing (3)

the Axis 3 Rome 2 El Alamein 2

Medieval

2 answers | 9 clues

Should-Know (1)

Montgomery 6x $1,033 avg J:1 DJ:5

J $200 1989 All Allied ground troops on D-Day were under this British Field Marshall's command

DJ $1,000 1987 "In defeat, unbeatable; in victory unbearable" Churchill reportedly said of this viscount

DJ $1,000 1992 Under Eisenhower, this British commander led the ground forces at Normandy

Worth Knowing (1)

Eisenhower 3

Revolutionary Era

1 answers | 5 clues

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Midway 5x $1,050 avg J:1 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $800 2022 On June 6, 1942 Admiral Yamamoto's retreat ended this pivotal battle

DJ $1,000 1992 Located 1,300 miles N.W. of Hawaii, it was the site of a major American naval victoryover Japan in '42

FJ 2000 In 1998 Bill Surgi helped locate the sunken aircraft carrier Yorktown, a ship he last saw during this WWII battle

Cold War

1 answers | 2 clues

Worth Knowing (1)

Leningrad 2

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