WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

WORLD WAR II

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who invaded Poland on September 1, 1939?
A
Soviet Union
B
Germany
C
Italy
D
Japan
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering World War II. In response to German aggression, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sępólno Krajeńskie (Poland), 1 September 1939. Hitler had attacked Poland because he wanted Germans to live there. He considered the Polish people inferior and only fit as a work force. In the last three months of 1939, the Nazis murdered 65, 000 Jewish and non-Jewish Poles.

Detailed explanation-3: -Władysław Raczkiewicz ([vwadɨˈswaf rat͡ʂkʲɛˈvit͡ʂ]; 28 January 1885 – 6 June 1947) was a Polish politician, lawyer, diplomat and President of Poland-in-exile from 1939 until his death in 1947.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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