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How was Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union similar to his invasion of France?

Why was the D-Day invasion crucial for the Allies’ Europe First strategy?

Japan was unable to launch any more major offensives after losing the Battle of

Which of the following organized Kristallnacht?

Even before World War II started in 1939, Japan had already invaded which of these areas?

In the report below, a Nazi officer describes the evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943."The execution of this transfer order [to move all the Jews in the ghetto to concentration camps] proved to be very difficult, since the managers as well as the Jews resisted in every possible way . . . The conditions discovered there are indescribable. I cannot imagine a greater chaos than in the Ghetto of Warsaw.”—SS General Jürgen Stroop, 1943

The passage below contains testimony from the commander of Auschwitz, given at a war crimes trial in 1946.DR. KAUFMANN: Is it furthermore true that Eichmann stated to you that in Auschwitz a total sum of more than 2 million Jews had been destroyed?HÖSS: Yes.DR. KAUFMANN: Did you yourself ever feel pity with the victims, thinking of your own family and children?HÖSS: Yes.DR. KAUFMANN: How was it possible for you to carry out these actions in spite of this?HÖSS: In view of all these doubts which I had, the only one and decisive argument was the strict order and the reason given for it by the Reichsführer Himmler.

In 1941, Japan’s desire for expansion in the Pacific led to war with

How did Hitler’s military strategy change when he attacked Great Britain?

Which of the following describes Adolf Hitler’s role in public life during the 1930s?

Look at this photograph taken during the Battle of Guadalcanal.

Which explains why freeing Italy and North Africa was part of the Allied strategy for winning the war?

Which were significant events that helped the Allies win the war in Europe? Check all that apply.the Nazi defeat at Stalingradthe Invasion of Normandythe bombing of Hiroshimathe North African campaignthe Battle of the Somme

The graph shows troop casualties in major Pacific battles.

In a speech to the British people near the beginning of World War II, Churchill said the following:Let us brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."—Winston Churchill