German dictator Adolf Hitler and German troops at Prague Castle on March 15, 1939. (Photo: Bundesarchiv, CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Signs and reminders of World War II are still conspicuous across Prague and Czechia, ranging from brass-colored paving stones to show where Holocaust victims used to live, plaques to honor heroes from the Prague Uprising, to bullet damage preserved on the side of a church where Czechoslovak paratroopers who assassinated Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich were cornered by the Nazis.
This week marks another sad anniversary, of the massacre at Lidice on June 10, 1942. As part of the harsh reprisals for the Heydrich assassination, all of the men in the village were executed, while most of the women and children were sent to concentration camps. Every building in the entire village was then destroyed. Out of 503 inhabitants, only about 160 survived the war years.
Do you know your Czech World War II history? See if you remember the key events of the war through the lens of the Czech lands.
Question 1 / 10
The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany began with the German annexation of the Sudetenland in 1938, and ended with the establishment of which dual government system in 1939?
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Czecho-Slovak Federation
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Sudetenland
Question 2 / 10
Which agreement conceded Hitler’s claim to the Sudetenland, an area with a large German population, widely thought to have emboldened Hitler to advance?
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Yalta Accord
Munich Agreement
Warsaw Pact
Question 3 / 10
Who was the President of Czechoslovakia at the time the Munich Pact was signed?
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Edvard Beneš
Jan Masaryk
Emil Hácha
Question 4 / 10
The most important event of the resistance was the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, SS leader Heinrich Himmler's deputy and the then acting Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. What was the name of this assassination plot?
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Operation Anthropoid
Operation Market Garden
Operation Overlord
Question 5 / 10
Hitler retaliated by ordering the destruction of two Czech villages. One of them is Lidice. What is the name of the other village?