The Ultimate Year Quiz - 1945
See what you know about the year 1945
Quiz created by: Mr. Badger Hawkeye
1. In what present day country was the Yalta Conference held from February 4 to February 11, 1945?
(#) Egypt
(#) Iran
(#) Russia
(#) Ukraine
2. What Nazi concentration camp was liberated on January 27, 1945 by the Soviet Union?
(#) Dachau
(#) Buchenwald
(#) Bergen-Belsen
(#) Auschwitz
3. In what state did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pass away on April 12, 1945?
(#) New York
(#) Maryland
(#) Georgia
(#) Maine
4. Who took over as the leader of Germany after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945?
(#) Heinrich Himmler
(#) Hermann Goering
(#) Karl Donitz
(#) Joseph Goebbels
5. What team won the 1945 World Series?
(#) St. Louis Cardinals
(#) Chicago Cubs
(#) Detroit Tigers
(#) New York Yankees
6. For how much did the first ballpoint pens go on sale for at Gimbels in New York City on October 29, 1945?
(#) $2.50
(#) $5.00
(#) $12.50
(#) $7.50
7. In what German city did the Nazi war crimes trial start on November 20, 1945?
(#) Nuremberg
(#) Munich
(#) Berlin
(#) Bonn
8. On what battleship was the Japanese Instrument of Surrender signed on September 2, 1945?
(#) USS Missouri
(#) USS California
(#) USS Iowa
(#) USS Nevada
9. What capital city was liberated on February 23, 1945?
(#) Manila
(#) Paris
(#) Berlin
(#) Rome
10. In what Italian city was the bodies of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci hanged by its heels in a public square?
(#) Milan
(#) Naples
(#) Florence
(#) Rome
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