What two countries started World War II?

Question

what were the main countries and please name some other facts about World War II

Answer 1

Germany, Japan, and the U.S.

Answer 2

World War II had a lot of underlying causes, but the tip-off point for it was when Germany invaded Poland against the orders of other European nations ( mainly France, Great Britain) and so they all declared war on Germany. Before that, Adolf Hitler had been conquering other countries in succession(Czechoslovakia, Austria-Hungary), and every time GB and France called him on it he promised to stop, but as we all know Hitler is a big fat liar, and he didn't stop. The line was drawn at Poland, and Hitler crossed it, so they had to take him down.
The other Axis powers (bad guys) involved in WWII were Italy and Japan. Russia was with them at first, but they eventually switched to our side. They had an alliance with Germany, so when GB, France, etc. declared war on Germany, that meant that Italy and Japan had an obligation to help Germany fight.

Axis Leaders

Russia=Josef Stalin
Germany=Adolf Hitler
Italy=Benito Mussolini
Japan=Hideki Tojo

Allied Leaders

GB=Neville Chamberlain/Winston Churchill
France=Charles de Gaulle
U.S=FDR, Harry Truman

PS-There were a lot more countries involved than just these seven, but I'm only listing the main ones.

Answer 3

That's an unanswerable question. Did Japan start world war II or did we drive them to it with our foreign policy? Does it depend on your views on initiation of force? Does the answer overlook their aggression on the mainland? Did Germany start the war, or did the Treaty of Versailles play a part? Did Russian aggravate matters by agreeing to partition Poland with the Germans? Is France partly to blame by building the "monument to man's stupidity" that was the Maginot Line?

Two? What moron of a teacher narrowed it down to two? There's a lot more responsibility for it than that.

Answer 4

World War II was triggered by Germanys' invasion of Poland Sept.1st 1939. By Sept.3rd, Britain and France were at war with Germany, and within the next week, were joined by Australia,New Zealand,Canada and South Africa.WWII involved every major world power and was settled (after more than 60million people had died) by the use of nuclear weapons.

Answer 5

Japans rational for attacking the United States was our cutting off oil that Japan relied on. They were trying to remove our navy as the way to get hold of the oil rich areas around the south pacific, and keep us from having the might to retake those oil fields. Germany methodically swallowed up parts of countries around them until they went after Poland, a country made up of German and Austrian-Hungarian lands. which was the tipping point where the French and British had promised to protect

Answer 6

WW II Started with the treaty of versailles from world war I which essentially blamed Germany for WWI and forced it to pay war retributions, even though technically it was austria who started it by retalliating against serbia for the assissination of arch duke francis ferdinand, germany was an ally to austria and also declared war on serbia...anyways if you were blamed for something you didn't technically start and were forced to pay for all the damages you'd be ticked to so the treaty of versailles makes the people of germany angry and gives them something to rally about...so we start to get a rise of dictators making ludicrous promises to the people and through all this britain and the other european countries aren't helping any by trying to appease germany to avoid a conflict, all this happening before the official beginning of WWII which is the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939...well germany goes out trying to conquer all of europe and great britain is the only european super power left to stand against them (oddly enough same thing happened during napoleonic wars and WWI those brits are pretty tough) so about 2 years into it on 1941 germany breaks its non-aggression pact with the U.S.S.R. and that gets the U.S.S.R. on the allied side. I don't quite remember why china joined the allies but anyways japan was an ally to the axis powers (germany, italy, and japan) and the U.S. cut off oil supply to japan and thats what makes japan bomb pearl harbor in 1941 so the U.S. jumps in around D-day however we had troops fighting in north africa before that(I think) but June 6, 1944 the allies (who consisted of the U.S.A., Great Britain, U.S.S.R., china, and a bit later France) stormed the coast of france which marked the beginning of the end for germany as they were now fighting the war on the eastern front against the americans and british and the western front against the U.S.S.R. war goes on and the allies start to win...august 6th and 9th of 1945 we drop a-bombs on nagasaki and hiroshima. May 7th, 1945 germany surrendered and august 14th japan surrenedered and a bit later the U.N. is formed. To sum it all up if your going to blame any two countries for starting world war II it'd be best to say Germany and italy since they were already fighting before japan bombed pearl harbor...lots of facts above another is there were about 72 million casulties total

lol sorry that turned out longer then i thought it would

Answer 7

I believe the actual beginning of WWII was when Germany invaded Poland, breaking a non-agression pact. This then sparked interest amongst other countries, thus beginning World War 2.

Answer 8

Japanese in the early 1930s caused problems.

Germany and Russia (September 1939 which officially started WWII in Europe)

http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=226140

Answer 9

Germany and Japan-we won

Answer 10

Germany and Japan, they lost, expecially Japan was lost