Before WWII
What country did Hitler annex?
Austria
The victims of the Holocaust included large numbers of what?
European Jews.
Why did the United States enter the war?
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
What did Churchill compare postwar Soviet policy to?
What area of Czechoslovakia was given to Hitler?
The Sudetenland.
What was the purpose of bombing cities?
To frighten civilians and weaken morale.
What event ended the war in the Pacific?
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What did the Allied powers decide to do with Germany?
To divide control among those powers.
What two countries did Hitler occupy without any trouble from France or Germany?
Austria and Czechoslovakia
When did the allies agree to stop fighting?
When the axis powers surrendered unconditionally.
Why did Japan take Manchuria and north China?
To get Natural Resources
What happened to Europe because of WWII?
it was economically devastated.
Why did Germany attack the Soviet Union?
They thought the Soviets would support Britain.
Why was a creation of the second front important to the Allies?
They could attack Germany from the west and east.
Why did the Japanese create the Greater East Asia Co Prosperity Sphere?
Get resources from its colonies.
What was the cause of President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs?
It would help save lives of American soldiers.
No Western state would enforce it.
Why the citizens in the soviet Union experience severe food and housing shortages?
All resources went into the war economy.
why was Iwo Jima important to the allies?
Why did Stalin refuse to allow free elections in Easter Europe?