WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Scorched-earth policy was a military strategy adopted by the Dutch during the Second World War. Dutch troops deliberately torched everything to destroy Javanese resources like wood, so that it would not fall into the hands of the Japanese, who also colonised Indonesia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Explanation : (A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy. Any assets that could be used by the enemy may be targeted, which usually includes obvious weapons, transport vehicles, communication sites, and industrial resources.)

Detailed explanation-3: -The Dutch adopted the ‘scorched earth policy’ during the war because : The First World War and Second World War had a major impact on forests. In India, working plans were abandoned and trees were cut freely to meet British demand for war needs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Russian followed the Scorched Earth Policy, they abandoned the villages and set fire to crops, roads, railways, factories and even houses, so that German could not gain anything and after a term of 5 months the German were able to capture the empty city of Moscow.

Detailed explanation-5: -On the Eastern Front of World War I, the Imperial Russian Army created a zone of destruction by using a massive scorched-earth strategy during their retreat from the Imperial German Army in the summer and the autumn of 1915.