Axis Powers Advance (18.2)

British citizens joined the war effort by fighting Germans in the streets of London.

Nazi forces couldn’t tolerate the harsh British winter.

The British navy repelled invading Nazi armies.

The German air force was unable to defeat the British air force.

Germany gained access to Soviet factories and farms.

Germany was able to take control of Leningrad.

Churchill and Stalin became allies.

Stalin fled the Soviet Union.

stop the spread of communism.

help Allied nations without the United States entering the war.

create jobs to end the Great Depression and World War II.

convince the American people that was was necessary.

use of the blitzkrieg, which caught countries unprepared.

superiority of German naval forces.

continuing appeasement policy of Britain and France.

support the League of Nations.

France was overrun by German and Italian forces.

France did not receive military support from Britain.

France was unable to fund its war effort.

The French people favored Hitler.

It persuaded other nations in Europe to rise up against Hitler.

It saved Britain from German invasion.

It forced Hitler to surrender and ended fighting in Western Europe.

It caused the United States and the Soviet Union to declare war on Germany.

Japan declared war against the United States.

Western Europe recovered from the damage caused by

World War II.

The United States provided critical aid to Great Britain and the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union declared war on Germany.

Japan wanted to gain control of Hawaii.

The United States had sent troops to Southeast Asia to support Britain.

The United States was threatening to bomb the Japanese mainland.

The United States was interfering with Japan’s plan to expand its empire.

Because the United States had imposed an embargo on all Japanese made goods.

To honor their alliance when the United States declared war on Germany and Italy.

To access the oil resources located off the coast of Hawaii.

Because the Japanese believed the United States was interfering with their efforts to build a Pacific empire.

the Japanese stopped fighting the Russians after bombing Pearl Harbor.

the Soviet Union unleashed new weapons against the Germans.

the German army was unprepared for the harsh Russian winter.

the United States entered the war drawing German troops from the east.