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Subtitles and Paragraphs (World War II)

Subtitles and Paragraphs (World War II)

Read each paragraph and choose the correct subtitle.
The Second World War pitted two alliances against each other, the Axis powers and the Allied powers. The countries of the Axis were Germany, Italy and Japan. United States belonged to the Allies side.

This second global conflict resulted from the rise of totalitarian, militaristic regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan, a phenomenon stemming in part from the Great Depression that swept over the world in the early 1930s and from the conditions created by the peace settlements following World War I.

In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria. In 1936, it signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany and later, Italy. In 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. The Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east.

Hitler's war against the Jews began shortly after he took power. As Germany invaded Poland, Austria, and other eastern countries, the Nazis began executing Jews and other "undesirables." In 1941, the Nazis began the "final solution" by murdering Jews in death camps. In total, 6 million Jews died.

President Harry Truman ordered bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9. Deaths occurred from brute force, burns, radiation sickness, and cancer. Japan surrendered on August 14, 1945.