Answer:

D

Explanation:

SPEAKER: The Second World War was a conflict so vast and destructive that it affected almost everyone on Earth and shaped the world we live in today. How did this cataclysmic series of events begin?

Though tensions had been simmering in Europe for years, war officially began on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. But it wasn't just a German-Polish war. It was a world war. Britain and France responded just two days later by declaring war on Germany on September 3rd. But was that the end of it?

Not by a long shot. Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Then, on December 7, Germany's ally, Japan, spread the war across the Pacific Ocean by launching an attack on the American Naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by Naval and air forces of the empire of Japan

In fact, many nations were touched by the conflict, but the main combatants can be grouped into two opposing factions-- Germany, Japan, and Italy where the Axis powers. France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union were the Allied powers. China, which had been engaged in a war with Japan concurrently with World War II, is also sometimes counted among the Allied powers

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