World War Two in Europe and the Asia-Pacific quiz: Blitzkrieg, the Pacific War, the fall of Singapore and the defeat of the Axis (O-Level Elective History) quiz

A defensive strategy of digging trenches

A 'lightning war' using fast tanks, motorised infantry and air power to break through quickly

A naval blockade

A bombing campaign against cities only

The invasion of Britain

The capture of Moscow and Stalingrad

The fall of Poland in 1939 and France in 1940

The conquest of the United States

In Poland

It never stalled at all

In France

At the Battle of Britain and later in the vast Soviet Union

To cripple the American Pacific Fleet and gain time to conquer resource-rich Southeast Asia

To make peace with the United States

To defend Hawaii

To support the League of Nations

It was a minor skirmish with no impact

The 'impregnable' British base surrendered to a smaller Japanese force, shattering British prestige in Asia

It marked the end of the war

It was a British victory

Strong, well-prepared Allied defences

Japan's overwhelming numbers everywhere

Surprise, mobility and the weakness of unprepared Allied defences

Support from the United States

At Pearl Harbor

At Stalingrad

At the fall of Singapore

At the Battle of Midway in 1942

The Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 to 1943

The Battle of Britain

The fall of France

The bombing of Pearl Harbor

They ended the war in the Pacific

They opened a second front in the west, forcing Germany to fight on two fronts at once

They allied Germany with the Soviet Union

They had no military effect

It concentrated all German forces in one place

It made Germany stronger

It overstretched German forces and resources, splitting them between east and west

It ended the war immediately in Germany's favour

By a German invasion of Japan

By a Soviet invasion of the United States

By the League of Nations

By the American island-hopping advance, naval blockade and bombing that strangled its war economy

That they would force a quick surrender and avoid a costly invasion of Japan

To test a new weapon for no reason

To start the Cold War

To help Japan rebuild

An empire that was too small

An overextended empire and an inability to access enough raw materials from its conquests

Too many raw materials

Refusal to expand at all

It has no later consequences

It restored the League of Nations

It left Europe divided, broke down the wartime alliance and opened the nuclear age, leading into the Cold War

It ended all great-power rivalry