Q. What was the major form of fighting on the Western Front?
air combat
Q. Which of the following was result of the Selective Service Act?
On May 18, 1917, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. The act eventually required all men between the ages of 21 to 45 to register for military service.
Table of Contents
- Q. What was the major form of fighting on the Western Front?
- Q. Which of the following was result of the Selective Service Act?
- Q. What policy kept the US out of the war for 3 years?
- Q. In which directions did German troops advance into France?
- Q. What was Hitler’s plan for conquering France?
- Q. Why did the French surrender so quickly in ww2?
- Q. Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies?
- Q. What was the main goal of the Soviet Union after WW2?
- Q. How did the Soviet Union maintain control of East Germany after World War II?
- Q. Which leader was most closely associated with stopping the spread of communism?
- Q. What was a major reason for the formation of NATO in 1949?
- Q. Which United States foreign policy was used to maintain the independence of Greece and Turkey?
- Q. Which group of countries became Soviet satellites after World War II?
Q. What policy kept the US out of the war for 3 years?
neutrality
Q. In which directions did German troops advance into France?
On the ground, German forces advanced in two directions: one through the Netherlands and northern Belgium (where Britain and France had expected) and the other, larger force to the south, through Luxembourg and into the Ardennes Forest on a path that led directly into the French heartland.
Q. What was Hitler’s plan for conquering France?
Hitler ordered a conquest of the Low Countries to be executed at the shortest possible notice to forestall the French and prevent Allied air power from threatening the vital German Ruhr Area. It would also provide the basis for a long-term air and sea campaign against Britain.
Q. Why did the French surrender so quickly in ww2?
Paris did have another option in 1940. France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course, was the success of the German invasion, which left metropolitan France at the mercy of Nazi armies. But the German victory opened profound rifts in French society.
Q. Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies?
Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies? The Soviet Union originally part of the Axis through the Non-Agression Pact. The Soviet Union joined the Allies after being invaded by Germany. An aggreement between Germany and the Soviet Union saying that they would not fight each other.
Q. What was the main goal of the Soviet Union after WW2?
The main goal of the the Soviet Union (which is to say Joseph Stalin) was to increase its power and influence in the world, Stalin saw to it that communists in the Eastern European countries were placed in power.
Q. How did the Soviet Union maintain control of East Germany after World War II?
Answer. The Soviet Union built the notorious Berlin wall in 1948 primarily to stop the residents of East Germany from fleeing to the Western part of Germany, which had, by then, merged the three territories held by France, Britain and the United States.
Q. Which leader was most closely associated with stopping the spread of communism?
George F. Kennan
Q. What was a major reason for the formation of NATO in 1949?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
Q. Which United States foreign policy was used to maintain the independence of Greece and Turkey?
In a dramatic speech to a joint session of Congress, President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations.
Q. Which group of countries became Soviet satellites after World War II?
By 1945, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Albania had all been added to the list as Soviet satellite states.
