Exercises on Alliances in World War II

The World War II it was the biggest military conflict in the history of mankind, involving countries on four continents. The participants allied themselves in two large groups, the Allies and the Axis Countries . Regarding the latter, it is correct to say that the countries that composed it were:

a) Germany, USSR and China.

b) Germany, Japan and Italy.

c) Italy, USA and Japan.

d) Japan, USSR and Italy.

e) Germany, Italy and China.

Although major battles took place between the Germans and the Soviets during World War II, the two countries, Germany and the USSR, for a time established a military pact. Briefly answer the name of the pact between the two countries and its main objectives.

(UnB-DF) Judge the following items as correct or false.

The Second World War (1939 - 1945) is anticipated by a series of conflicts and pacts and, among these, the following stand out:

a) the invasion of Ethiopia by German troops in 1935/1936.

b) the blatant support of Hitler and Mussolini to the fascist Falange of General Franco, in the Spanish Civil War.

c) the invasion of China by Japanese troops, which dominate regions of great economic importance.

d) the signing of the Anto-Comintern Pact, between the United States, England and France, which signaled the unity of efforts aimed at containing Stalin's advance.

e) the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland by Germany in 1938, and of Albania by Italy in 1939.

f) the Munich conference in 1938, in which England and France prevent the German advance, which serves as a pretext for the beginning of the Second World War.

g) the German-Soviet pact, in August 1939, which guarantees Russia's neutrality and prepares the way for the invasion of Poland.

(ENEM 2008) In a speech given on March 17, 1939, the British prime minister at the time, Neville Chamberlain, supported his political position:I don't need to defend my visits to Germany last autumn, what alternative was there? Nothing that we could have done, nothing that France could have done, or even Russia, would have saved Czechoslovakia from destruction. But I also had another purpose in going to Munich. It was to pursue the policy sometimes called “European appeasement”, and Hitler repeated what he had already said, namely that the Sudetenland, a region with a German population in Czechoslovakia, was his last territorial ambition in Europe, and that I did not want to include people other than the Germans in Germany.

Knowing that the commitment made by Hitler in 1938, mentioned in the text above, was broken by the German leader in 1939, it is inferred that:

a) Hitler wanted control of more territories in Europe, in addition to the Sudetenland.

b) the alliance between England, France and Russia could have saved Czechoslovakia.

c) the breach of this commitment inspired the policy of “European appeasement”.

d) Chamberlain's policy of appeasing the German leader was contrary to the position taken by the Allied powers.

e) the way Chamberlain chose to deal with the Sudetenland problem led to the destruction of Czechoslovakia.

Letter b . The Axis Countries were Germany, Japan and Italy. This alliance was also known as the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.

The pact was named the German-Soviet Pact , whose objectives provided for non-aggression between the two countries and neutrality in the event of conflicts. Furthermore, the compromise allowed the Soviets to annex the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Finland and part of eastern Poland, and in return the Germans could annex Danzig in Poland. This pact represented the placing in the background of the political and ideological differences existing between the rulers of the two countries.

Correct are the items b, c, e, g . False are the items a, d, f.

About fake items:In“a”, the country that invaded Ethiopia was Italy, not Germany; in “d” , it was not the United States, England and France that signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, but Germany, Italy and Japan; in “f”, England and France did not prevent the advance of Germany, but accepted the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, moreover, the pretext for the beginning of the war was the invasion of Poland.

Item a . The Sudetenland was just one of the territories coveted by Hitler, and the invasions of other territories after the Treaty of Munich gave rise to the Second World War.