WW2 quiz

When was the Postdam Conference held?

The atomic bomb to blow up Hiroshima was shipped from San Antonio to Tinian Island.

On the [blank_start]4th of August[blank_end] there was a meeting to discuss when the bomb would be dropped. On the [blank_start]5th of August[blank_end] a [blank_start]V29[blank_end] crashed, but it was also the day they loaded the bomb onto the plane.

[blank_start]Parsons[blank_end] changed the plan last minute out of fear that if the plane crashed it would blow up the island.

The plane that dropped the bomb was called the [blank_start]Enola Gay[blank_end] after Tibbit's mother.

America had several reasons for dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, what were they?

There were three planes flying to Hiroshima.

[blank_start]Three[blank_end] hours into the [blank_start]six[blank_end] hour flight the three planes met up. One plane had already been over Hiroshima to check the [blank_start]weather[blank_end] to report back to the [blank_start]Enola Gay[blank_end].

[blank_start]45[blank_end] seconds after the bomb was released it exploded. [blank_start]2[blank_end] seconds before the atoms started to split ready to explode.

The [blank_start]weather[blank_end] plane had already caused everyone to be sent into shelters, but [blank_start]45[blank_end] minutes after they were given the all clear and carried on with their day. The bomb exploded at [blank_start]8:15[blank_end] am on the [blank_start]6th[blank_end] of August 1945.

The bomb released a 300 meter wide fireball.

The temperature under the fireball reached 2000 degrees centigrade.

The fireball was the first thing to happen. Then a [blank_start]shock wave moved at the speed of sound[blank_end]. The third thing that happened was a [blank_start]mushroom shaped cloud appeared[blank_end]. A flash happened after the [blank_start]mushroom shaped cloud[blank_end] and sent out radiation and gamma rays. Fires then started breaking out.

The Home Guard was advertised for men between the ages of 41 and 45.

A total of [blank_start]67,800[blank_end] volunteered themselves for the Home Guard.

The Home Guard were also known as:

Which of these were reasons people thought the Home Guard were useful?

Which of these were reasons that people thought the Home Guard were useless:

Which of these were jobs for the Home Guard?

Which of these people volunteered themselves to the Home Guard?

During the Coventry Blitz there were [blank_start]400[blank_end] German Bombers in the sky, none of which were shot down.

The Coventry Blitz happened on the 16th November 1940.

Children sent [blank_start]postcards[blank_end] to their parents from the countryside.

Scarletina was a killer disease.

Children were evacuated from [blank_start]cities[blank_end] to the [blank_start]countryside[blank_end], in total [blank_start]1,474,000[blank_end] people were evacuated.

Which of these people were evacuated?

[blank_start]827,000[blank_end] school children were evacuated. [blank_start]7,000[blank_end] blind and disabled people were evacuated. [blank_start]103,000[blank_end] teachers and 13,000 [blank_start]pregnant women[blank_end] were evacuated. [blank_start]524,000[blank_end] mothers and children under [blank_start]5[blank_end] were evacuated. [blank_start]241,000[blank_end] were evacuated from London. In total that's [blank_start]1,474,000[blank_end] people.

71,484 people were evacuated to Lancashire.