Todays post will take us on a short time-travel trip to the 1940’s. This will be the first of five trivia posts from past decades from the 1940’s through the 1980’s. These first few questions may be difficult since most readers weren’t alive in the 40’s but if your a fan of history you may learn a few mostly forgotten facts. Let’s get started. As always the answers will be listed below.

• What important journal was found in Amsterdam following World War II?

• In what year was Korea split in two?

• On what day of the week was Pearl Harbor bombed?

• Who coined the phrase “Iron Curtin”?

• What newspaper ran the infamous headline “Dewey Defeats Truman”?

• In what island group is Corregidor, which fell to the Japanese in 1942.

• From what nation did Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) gain it’s independence in 1948?

• The body of what World War II leader was hung upside down in public?

• What world leader in 1943 survived a bomb set by his generals to assassinate him?

• What was the nickname given the the Nazi general Erwin Rommel?

BONUS Question

What two world leaders met in Casablanca in 1943?

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Answers

The Diary of Ann Frank, 1948, Sunday, Winston Churchill, The Chicago Daily Tribune, The Philippines, Great Britain, Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, The Desert Fox, BONUS-Churchill and Roosevelt

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