World War II help?

Question

We have a test tommorwo on world war II. Im only in 8th grade so its not super hard. Can you guys give me some main points?


Id also like to ask


What countries were on the Axis Side


What countries were on the Allies side?


Please explain Appeasment for me.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Appeasement: If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to want a glass of milk.

On the Axis side: The main ones were...Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Vichy France.

On the Allied side: Even more than the axis, but the main ones were...USA, UK, Free France, USSR, Finland (they switched sides), Australia, China, Canada. Other countries that fought on this side included Norway, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, & Greece, but they didn't last too long before being defeated.

That's all you get! If you want more than that, read your textbook! :P

Answer 2

The main Axis powers were Germany, Italy and Japan along with a number of eastern European countries including Finland. The main Allied powers were the US, UK, France, China and the USSR with Allies including the British commonwealth and the Low Countries plus Denmark, Norway and ultimately most of Latin America.

Appeasement was a strategic policy formulated by British Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Foreign Minister Sir John Simon and supported by British generals in the Committee of Imperial Defence whereby Britain and France allowed Hitler to reunify the German nation in the hopes of keeping his planned aggression focused eastward against the Soviet Union. It would have worked and prevented war between Nazi Germany and the Western Allies had Hitler not violated the Munich Pact by occupying Czechoslovakia leading British Prime Minister Chamberlain to guarantee Poland and thus commit Britain to another great war with Germany over Hitler’s claim to the independent German city of Danzig which was under Polish control. Hitler needed Poland as a German ally or occupied territory in order to launch his planned invasion of the Soviet Union.

David

Answer 3

The first two can be answered very quickly with a search engine.

Because appeasement has been reduced to a caricature war war-mad people who use it falsely as an excuse to justify crushing any tin-pot country that annoys them, I'll give you something better.

The popular view of appeasement- the one your teacher wants you to write- is that the British and French thought that by giving Hitler what he wanted he'd stop his expansionist policies. Sort of 'all right, you can have Austria- but don't let us catch you invading Czechosovakia'. In this, it failed.

In fact, the Allies were too weak to take on Germany- although they perceived themselves to be weaker than they were. British PM Chamberlain's decision to let Czechoslovakia go was in part because he could do little to protect her, and there was no likelihood of co-ordinated Allied action- Hitler would have got his territory AND humiliated the West (a term meaning, loosely, Britain and France).

A premature war, with many in the West sympathetic to Germany's desire to throw off the harsh Versailles treaty, would have been a disaster. The Allies DID draw a 'line in the sand' in front of Poland, and stood by the commitment. Appeasement gave the Allies time to re-arm, while ensuring that when WW2 did break out, there was enormous will to fight in most allied countries.

This will was important, because Germany very nearly won in 1940 and it would have been easy for the British to negotiate a peace, if they felt they were just fighting to kick Germany out of, say, the Rhineland, which was German territory anyway.

Appeasement has no parallel with, say, Iraq. Because Germany was a strong power and to stand up meant, as it did, total commitment to years of war. Iraq was a tin pot dictatorship which poses no threat to anyone, and never really did.

Answer 4

Axis = Germany, Italy Japan
Allies = (in order of joining) France, British Empire, Soviet Union, USA.
There were other countries involved but these are the main ones
Appeasement was the policy of giving in to Hitler's territorial demands in the 1930s.

Answer 5

don't forget that italy switched sides and joined the allies after mussolini was forced out power in 1923.

i like The_Man_In_The_Box's explanation of appeasement, however, i would not write that on a test :) just remember chamberlain, the munich conference, and czechoslovakia were all major players in the policy of appeasement.

Answer 6

Axis - Germany, Japan, Italy, Finland, Romania

Allies - virtually everyone else except Switzerland and Sweden