Question

Germany lost an important World War II ally when

Answer 1

Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker on April 30, 1945 when he realized that Germany would lose thewar. Around 200,000 US soldiers losttheir lives in battle in World War II in Europe. United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe.

Answer 2

Answer:

In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. This started a war with France and England. In September

1940, a Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan, strengthening Hitler’s claim to

international power.

 Hitler moved to achieve his long-term aim of conquering Eastern Europe. He wanted to ensure food

supplies and living space for Germans.

 He attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941. In this historic blunder Hitler exposed the German western

front to British aerial bombing and the eastern front to the powerful Soviet armies.

The Soviet Red Army inflicted a crushing and humiliating defeat on Germany at Stalingrad.

 Japan was expanding its power in the east. It had occupied French Indo-China and was planning attacks

on US naval bases in the Pacific. When Japan extended its support to Hitler and bombed

the US base at Pearl Harbor, the US entered the Second World War.

 The war ended in May 1945 with Hitler’s defeat and the US dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima

and Nagasaki in Japan.