HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Spain joined the Axis powers.
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Republican forces won the civil war.
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Western democracies took action to oppose Nazi aggression.
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Germany was able to test out the capabilities of its weapons.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In intervening in the civil war in Spain both the Italians and Germans were highly motivated by ideological, strategic and economic considerations but it was the first of these that initially drove their intervention and sustained it thereafter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Germany and Italy became involved in the Spanish Civil War because they had similar governments to Spain, they wanted to gain more allies and wanted to back the Nationalists in Spain. How was the Munich Conference a turning point in the road toward world war?
Detailed explanation-3: -Blitzkrieg, meaning ‘Lightning War’, was the method of offensive warfare responsible for Nazi Germany’s military successes in the early years of the Second World War.
Detailed explanation-4: -German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War. More than 200, 000 native-born Germans, along with another 250, 000 1st-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army, notably from New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Several thousand also fought for the Confederacy.