WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What event caused the Soviet Union to become allied with the United States and Great Britain?
A
Hitler’s violation of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
B
Stalin’s defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad
C
Franklin Roosevelt’s plan to invade France on D-Day
D
Winston Churchill’s vow to gain victory in the Battle of the Bulge
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Nonaggression Pact became a dead letter on June 22, 1941, when Nazi Germany, after having invaded much of western and central Europe, attacked the Soviet Union without warning in Operation Barbarossa.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Soviet Union, which initially had a nonaggression pact with Germany and participated in its invasion of Poland, joined the Allies in June 1941, after the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-3: -When World War II started, the Soviet Union was effectively an ally of Nazi Germany in a relatively conventional European interstate war. Although the Germans did most of the fighting in Poland, the Soviet Union occupied the eastern part.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nazi Germany had a distinct anti-Bolshevik, antisemitic policy, was very much directed against the Soviet Union. They were fighting each other through a proxy war during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. And the Soviet Union was famous for being anti-fascist, anti-Nazi.

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