WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Britain and France stood by their guarantee of Poland’s border and declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. However, Poland found itself fighting a two front war when the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east on September 17.

Detailed explanation-2: -1: The invasion of Poland by Germany starts at 4:45 a.m. when the Kriegsmarine’s battleship Schleswig-Holstein opens fire on the Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig on the Baltic Sea, but the attack is repulsed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The “reason” given was that Russia had to come to the aid of its “blood brothers, ‘’ the Ukrainians and Byelorussians, who were trapped in territory that had been illegally annexed by Poland. Now Poland was squeezed from West and East-trapped between two behemoths.

Detailed explanation-4: -On September 1, 1939, German forces under the control of Adolf Hitler bombard Poland on land and from the air. World War II had begun.

Detailed explanation-5: -Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe. German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the Polish capital. Hundreds of thousands of refugees, both Jewish and non-Jewish, fled the German advance hoping the Polish army could halt the German advance.

Detailed explanation-6: -Russo-Polish War, also called Polish-Soviet War, (1919–20), military conflict between Soviet Russia and Poland.