1. At the Munich Conference of 1938, British and French leaders were gathering to choose appeasement. This meant that they gave into Hitler�s demands and they persuaded the Chzechs to surrender Stuntenland without a fight. In return Hitler said he wouldn�t expand any more.
2. World War II was started following Germany�s invasion of Poland. Hitler signed a pact with Stalin just so the Soviet would be out of the way for the invasion. Britian and France honored their agreement with Poland and declared war on Germany.
3. The US joined WWII when Japan set forth the attack on Pearl Harbor. The day after Japan attacked Roosevelt declared war on Japan and 3 days later, Germany, Italy, and Hapan�s allies declared war on the US.
4. The Germans tried to exterminate the v Jews and did this by sending them to concentration camps. Here they were shot, burned alive, or starved.
5. The Battle of Stalingrad was an important battle because Hitler wanted to capture Stalin�s name city. This was one of the costliest battle as well.
6. The American �island-hopping� campaign was to recapture some Japanese held islands while bypassing others. The Americans gradually moved north of the Solomonislands towards Japan itself.
7. The United Nations was extablished in 1919. This was set up to secure peace. They came to be far greater than the League of Nations was.
8. The Truman Doctrine made it clear that the US would resist Soviet expansion in Europe or elsewhere. It was also made to limit communism to areas already under soviet control.