WW2

Question 1

What were the causes of WW2

Answer 1

• Treaty of Versailles- (punished Germany for WW1, war guilt clause, reparations)
• Hitlers foreign policy- (unite German people, abolish treaty of Versailles and get lebensraum in Europe for nazis)
• Munich Conference- (hitler claims the Sudetenland, Britain and France met with Germany to sort it out but Czechoslovakia was no invited)

Question 2

What was the course of WW2?

Answer 2

• (1939)- Nazi invasion of Poland
• (1939)- Nazi invasion of Denmark, Norway, Belgium and Holland
• Europe under attack
• Battle of Stalingrad ( first German defeat)
• (1941) Japan attacks pearl harbour
• (1944) allies close in on Germany through France
• (1945) Hitlers commits suicide
• (1945) Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 3

What were the consequences of WW2

Answer 3

• 60 Million died
• Cities destroyed by bombing
• Nuremberg trials
• Britain and France weakened
• Creation of EEC and United Nations