Yurovsky, the executioner of the Russian Imperial Family, left a detailed account of the events that transcurred on the night of July 16th, 1918, when the Romanov family was assassinated. In it, he describes the scene with the tsar Nicholas II in the following way:
"...so far as I can remember, I said to Nicholas approximately this: His royal and close relatives inside the country and abroad were trying to save him, but the Soviet of Workers' Deputies resolved to shoot them. He asked "What?" and turned toward Alexei. At that moment I shot him and killed him outright. He did not get time to face us to get an answer."
Answer:
Germany 'officially' invaded Poland in order to reclaim Danzig.
Explanation:
Germany, prior to World War Two, attempted to gain land for Germany and reunite ethnic Germans with their country. Such land gains included the annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, and the annexation of the city of Memel, among others. Germany sent Poland an ultimatum in the same fashion, asking them to surrender control of the city of Danzig, which had ethnic German roots. Poland did not comply, and Germany decided to invade. The invasion and conquest of Poland was most likely just for the sake of gaining land, and gaining a border with the USSR (which Germany later invaded).
To forbade colonial settlements west of the Appalachian mountains
