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The Eastern Front in World War II: A Comprehensive Quiz

Test your knowledge of the Eastern Front during World War II with this comprehensive quiz covering key events, figures, and concepts.

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1 In the south, three German attempts to relieve the encircled ________ failed and the city fell on 13 February to the Soviets.

2 Many hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilians were executed, and millions more died from ________ as the Germans requisitioned food for their armies and fodder for their draft horses.

3 Local ________ were encouraged to carry out their own pogroms.

4 Where did Eastern Front (World War II) take place?

5 Who was a commander in the Eastern Front (World War II)?

6 General Georgy Zhukov concentrated his ________ (1BF), which had been deployed along the Oder river from Frankfurt in the south to the Baltic, into an area in front of the Seelow Heights.

7 Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation – the Soviet campaign against Japan in Manchuria, ________, Korea, Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands

8 The gradual industrialization of killing led to adoption of the ________ and the establishment of the Operation Reinhard extermination camps: the machinery of the Holocaust.

9 On 30 March they entered ________ and captured Vienna on 13 April.

10 Which of the following was a combatant in the Eastern Front (World War II)?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the clocks on the Great Lavra Belltower (pictured) have only stopped once during their existence, when the nearby Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra was blown up during the Second World War.
  • towards the end of World War II, British Air Marshal Douglas Evill advocated the bombing of eastern German cities to disrupt Wehrmacht reinforcements moving to the Eastern Front.
  • the Ribbon of Saint George is worn in Russia on Victory Day as an act of commemoration of the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War.
  • the F-34 tank gun was put into service in the T-34 tank by a conspiracy of its makers, and it was only after enthusiastic tank crews had praised its merits in letters from the front that Stalin gave official permission to start its manufacture.
  • in combat areas of the Eastern Front of World War II, German soldiers were ordered to shoot any dog because it might be an anti-tank dog.
  • the snipers of the Kremlin Regiment killed a total of more than 1,200 German soldiers and officers during the Soviet-German War.
  • Heinz Guderian (pictured) and Adolf Hitler had heated arguments while planning for Operation Solstice, one of the major German offensive operations on the Eastern Front during WWII.
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