WW2 Map Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which description correctly places Midway Atoll, the location of the 1942 Battle of Midway?
In the central North Pacific, northwest of Hawaii
In the Baltic Sea, east of Sweden
In the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar
In the western Mediterranean, south of France
2. Which broad movement best describes the initial geographic direction of Operation Barbarossa in 1941?
Northward from Italy across the Alps into Germany
Southward from Britain into France and Spain
Westward from the Soviet Union into Scandinavia
Eastward from German-controlled Europe into the Soviet Union
3. Aircraft and ships moving from southern England toward the Normandy landing beaches had to cross which body of water?
North Sea
Bay of Biscay
English Channel
Irish Sea
4. The Ardennes region associated with the Battle of the Bulge lies chiefly across which two present-day countries?
Belgium and Luxembourg
France and Switzerland
Germany and Poland
Netherlands and Denmark
5. The wartime Burma campaign occurred largely in the country now called Myanmar. Where is Myanmar located relative to India and Thailand?
East of India and west of Thailand
North of India and west of China
West of India and east of Iran
South of Thailand and east of Malaysia
6. On a west-to-east route along the North African Mediterranean coast, which country lies after Tunisia and before Egypt?
Algeria
Libya
Sudan
Morocco
7. Guadalcanal, the focus of a major 1942-43 campaign, belongs to which Pacific island group?
Mariana Islands
Solomon Islands
Aleutian Islands
Philippine Islands
8. A naval map showing Leyte Gulf should place it in which part of the world?
Off the Atlantic coast of France
Between Sicily and mainland Italy
In the eastern Philippines
Along the northern coast of Norway
9. The D-Day landings of June 1944 took place along the coast of which present-day country?
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Denmark
10. Stalingrad, the site of a major Eastern Front battle, is now called Volgograd. In which present-day country is it located?
Ukraine
Belarus
Russia
Kazakhstan
11. If you placed Kursk on a simplified Eastern Front map, which description would be most accurate?
North of Leningrad near the Finnish border
South of Moscow and west of Stalingrad
East of the Ural Mountains in Siberia
On the Black Sea coast south of Crimea
12. Which geographic description best places Iwo Jima in relation to Japan?
West of Korea in the Yellow Sea
North of Hokkaido near the Kuril Islands
Between Taiwan and mainland China
South of the Japanese home islands in the western Pacific
13. An Allied unit advancing north from Naples toward Rome would encounter Monte Cassino in which country?
Greece
Yugoslavia
Austria
Italy
14. Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, sits near the eastern end of which body of water?
Black Sea
Gulf of Finland
Sea of Azov
White Sea
15. A map marker for El Alamein would belong in which North African country?
Egypt
Libya
Morocco
Tunisia
16. Which statement correctly describes Sicily’s position?
It lies north of France, at the entrance to the English Channel
It lies east of Greece, near the coast of Turkey
It lies west of Spain, beyond the Strait of Gibraltar
It lies just off the toe of mainland Italy, across the Strait of Messina