Why did hitler launch operation barbarossa? to invade france following his annexation of the sudetenland in 1939 to gain control of the rich resources that were under the control of the ussr to counter the approaching american army after their victory at the battle of the bulge to secure control over western europe before attempting to secure control over eastern europe

The correct option is: "to gain control of the rich resources that were under the control of the USSR"

Operation Barbarossa undertaken on June 22, 1941, was the code name given by Adolf Hitler to the invasion plan of the Soviet Union by the Axis Forces during the Second World War. This operation opened the Eastern Front, which became the theater of one of the largest operations of the war, scene of the biggest and most brutal battles of the conflict in Europe. The name of the operation is a tribute to Federico I Barbarroja whose name is linked to the German nationalism of the 19th century. n Hitler's ideology was the eastward expansion within his policy of "living space" (Lebensraum in German), although this was a German aspiration prior to the First World War. Already in 1918 in the Peace of Brest-Litovsk, the high command of the German imperial armies of the Eastern front had imposed their conditions for the armistice that the Bolsheviks requested. For practical reasons of survival the communist leaders had desisted to extend their government to the former regions of the Russian Empire of Poland and the Baltic countries, handing them over to the Kaiser's Reich.

2018 means 2018 ce or common era

there have been other eras too including bce, which included way more years.

payments were made after the 1940s.

in the 1980s, a commission held investigations and made recommendations.