Questions and Answers
What was the cause of World War II?
Germany's invasion of Poland
Who were the major participants in World War II?
Germany and Japan
What were some of the atrocities committed during World War II?
Massacres and genocide
Study Notes
- World War II involved most of the world's countries in two opposing military alliances.
- It was the most widespread war in history, involving over 100 million people from 30+ countries.
- The major participants threw their entire resources behind the war effort.
- The war included massacres, genocide, strategic bombing, starvation, disease, and the first use of nuclear weapons.
- The war began with Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939.
- Germany conquered much of continental Europe and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan.
- The war primarily involved the European Axis powers against the UK and British Commonwealth.
- The largest land theatre of war in history opened with the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union.
- Japan attacked the US and European colonies in the Pacific in 1941.
- The war ended in 1945 with the defeat of the Axis powers.
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