3 Truths and 1 Lie - WW2 Edition

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• The war began in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.
• The attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II.
• Italy remained neutral throughout the war.
• The Holocaust led to the deaths of six million Jews.

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• The Axis powers included Germany, Italy, and Japan.
• Winston Churchill was the President of the United States during WWII.
• The Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in favor of the Allies.
• D-Day refers to the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, occurred on June 6, 1944.
• The United Nations was formed after the war ended.
• The Manhattan Project developed the first nuclear weapons.
• Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1945.

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• The Yalta Conference was a meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin.
• Japan surrendered after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• The Treaty of Versailles ended World War II.
• Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• Adolf Hitler wrote 'Mein Kampf'.
• The Blitz referred to bombing campaigns on London.
• The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Operation Sea Lion was the code name for the Allied invasion of Italy.

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• The Battle of the Bulge occurred before the D-Day invasion.
• Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII.
• The Luftwaffe was the name of the German air force.
• Italy switched sides to join the Allies in 1943.

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• The Enigma machine was used by Nazi Germany to encrypt military communications, and its code was cracked by Allied cryptographers.
• Germany invaded Spain 1943.
• The war began in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.
• The "Night of Broken Glass," or Kristallnacht, was a violent anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany in 1938.

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis and wrote a famous diary.
• Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.
• The United States dropped leaflets warning Japanese citizens before bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Japan's military surrendered immediately after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• Japan's surrender was formally signed aboard the USS Missouri.
• The Nuremberg Trials were held after the war to prosecute Nazi war criminals.
• The Lend-Lease Act allowed the U.S. to supply its Allies with materials before officially entering the war.
• Albert Einstein directly helped build the atomic bombs used in World War II.

Which WW2 fact isn’t true?

• The war in the Pacific ended after Japan's surrender in September 1945.
• Hitler was assassinated during an Allied covert operation in 1945.
• The Battle of Midway in 1942 was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater, turning the tide in favor of the Allies.
• The Bataan Death March saw thousands of Filipino and American prisoners of war forced to march by Japanese forces, resulting in many deaths.