World War II Code Names Quiz
Test your knowledge of World War II code names and see how well you can categorize them!
1. What was the purpose of Operation Werewolf 1945?
German anti-partisan operation in Croatia, Yugoslavia
German fighter deployment against Allied bombing
German operation in the area of Molsheim, France, and Zabern, Germany
German commando operation against British supply lines in Iran
2. Which operation represented a German response to the Italian surrender in 1943?
Operation Feuerstein 1943
Operation Ferkel 1943
Operation Freischütz 1943
Fall Achse 1943
3. What was Operation Reinhard 1943 primarily focused on?
German systematic murder of Polish intelligentsia
German anti-partisan operation
German defensive build-up of the Italian Alpine passes
German planned aerial bombing operation against power generators in Moscow and Gorky, USSR
4. What was the goal of Operation Eiche 1943?
German operation to rescue Benito Mussolini from Allied imprisonment
German artillery bombardment of the Strait of Kerch
German anti-partisan operation in Bryansk, USSR
German infiltration of agents into the US to gather intelligence on Manhattan Project
5. Which of these operations involved German naval bombardment in Svalbard, Norway?
Operation Eisbär 1943
Operation Eilbote I 1943
Operation Eisfjord 1943
Operation Eisenhammer 1943
6. What was the main focus of Operation Horrido 1944?
German anti-partisan operation in Thessaloniki, Greece
German deception operation in support of Wacht am Rhein
German flooding of parts of the Netherlands to hinder Allied advance
German anti-partisan operation in the Fruška gora Mountains
7. Which operation was a German plan for an amphibious invasion of Britain?
Operation Adler 1940
Operation Hirsch 1940
Operation Attila 1940
Operation Fall Grün 1938
8. What was the target of the German Operation Husar 1943?
Anti-shipping operation in the Kara Sea
Population of a partisan stronghold in Greek islands
Sabotage actions in the Ural Mountains
Military bases in Split on the Croatian coast
9. What code name referred to the Allied invasion of North and Northwest Africa in 1942?
Operation Torch
Operation Bolero
Operation Brimstone
Operation GYMNAST
10. Which operation attempted the German break-out of capital ships from Brest, France to Norway?
Operation Zerberus 1942
Operation Siegfried 1943
Operation Tannenbaum 1943
Operation Otto 1938
