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D-Day - Allies make crucial push into France
  • 1. When did D-Day take place?
A) August 6, 1944
B) June 6, 1944
C) May 6, 1944
D) July 4, 1944
  • 2. Which Allied countries participated in the D-Day invasion?
A) United States, Germany, Japan
B) France, Soviet Union, Italy
C) United States, Australia, India
D) United States, United Kingdom, Canada
  • 3. What was the codename for the D-Day operation?
A) Operation Torch
B) Operation Overlord
C) Operation Neptune
D) Operation Barbarossa
  • 4. What was the German defensive barrier along the French coast that the Allies had to breach on D-Day?
A) Maginot Line
B) Siegfried Line
C) Gustav Line
D) Atlantic Wall
  • 5. Which beaches were targeted in the D-Day invasion?
A) Pearl Harbor, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal
B) Anzio, Salerno, Tarawa, Okinawa
C) Omaha, Utah, Gold, Juno, Sword
D) Dieppe, Dunkirk, Gibraltar, Sicily
  • 6. What airborne division dropped behind enemy lines to secure key objectives on D-Day?
A) 82nd Airborne Division
B) 1st Airborne Division
C) 173rd Airborne Brigade
D) 101st Airborne Division
  • 7. Which German leader was in charge of defending France at the time of D-Day?
A) Heinrich Himmler
B) Hermann Göring
C) Erwin Rommel
D) Adolf Hitler
  • 8. Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force on D-Day?
A) Bernard Montgomery
B) Douglas MacArthur
C) George S. Patton
D) Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • 9. In what year did the Battle of Stalingrad take place?
A) 1944-1945
B) 1942-1943
C) 1943-1944
D) 1941-1942
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