Can you give me 3 or more reasons how world war 1 lead to world war 2?

Answer 1

1:Germany feeling that they were betrayed and misstreated at the end of WW1 by the Versailles treaty.
2: Ethinic Minorities spread throughout eastern europe not being recognised and feeling repressed.
3: Economic collapse and protectionism causing the rise of nationalism.
4: President Wilsons Declaration of the "Self determination of the people" being unevenly applied.
5: Running terratorial disputes Danzig and the Saarland.
6: Horror of war leading to appeasement in Britain and France

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Answer 2

After the first World War, Germans were not happy with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. They were beset with problems and inflation affected the lives...and paychecks..of every German. A friend of mine told me once that her mother said it took her entire paycheck to buy ten pounds of potatoes.

Inflation, humiliation at losing the war, and dissatisfaction with governmental leaders are the three clear reasons that led to rebellion over the state of affairs and, when Hitler arrived on the scene, he seemed like a Godsend to many Germans, a man who offered security, prosperity and hope, and a man who believed in the supremacy of the Aryan race. When he built schools, hospitals and other public buildings, while at the same time blaming one facet of German society, the Jewish people, for the ills besetting the nation, the fascination with this fanatical orator continued to grow, until it became a fevered movement across Germany and the methodical invasions of neighboring countries began.

Would the average German have chosen War, if another, more peaceful leader had appeared on the scene? I don't think so. I believe that a charismatic, aggressive leader can fan the flames of War within a country. I believe that the rise of Hitler is one of the key reasons for World War II and that, without the first War, Hitler would never have risen to the heights he attained.

Answer 3

World War I was due to a number of things happening in a sequence that made multiple countries go to war for different reasons. World War II was all about Hitler wanting to rule the world. Nether war was more important than the other. However, World War I took care of a lot of problems that had developed between countries before the war.

Answer 4

Oi, there are lots more than three.
1. The biggest spur, as it usually is, was financial. In WWI, the U.S. came out VERY good. Not only were we making hand over fist because we were selling our goods to a fairly trench-gutted or destroyed Europe, but other countries owed us huge sums of money in repairations arranged in the Treaty of Versailles. The newly formed Weimar Republic (Germany) was one of them. Their currency became so depreciated that it took literally bundles of money to buy a loaf of bread. Germans' tax money (which went towards paying war repairations) was withheld from their pay because the government knew they'd never get it back at tax collection time. Living hand-to-mouth because of a war that many nationals did not support to begin with was understandably frustrating. Germans were bitter and looked to leaders who shared their disgruntled feelings. Enter Hitler.
When the Great Depression spread to the world from the U.S. , and then when the U.S. proceeded to call in all it's debts, it was not very popular. Hitler and Hitler's contemporaries poured money into government projects to provide people with jobs. This included the reconstruction of the country and the strengthening of the military. At the height of the depression, Germany had risen above many of its European counterparts. Germans were eccstatic about this and were more convinced that he had the right idea about things. The crazy streak had obviously not yet been discovered.
2. The Weimar Republic was organized by the winners of WWI essentially. Prior to that point, the area had been ruled time-out-of-mind by monarchs or emperors. This new fangled republic was new and was weakened further by foreign meddling. The government was not empowered enough to make the changes its people demanded. They were not capable of resurecting the economy or paying owed soldier salaries. Add that to the anger about the repairation taxes and it was doomed before it even had a chance to begin. I should note that the government was intentionally not given very much power by the WWI victors. Their reason was so that they were unable to recooperate too quickly and restart a war...haha, kinda ironic, huh?
3. On a similar note, WWI had brought down the last of the major family rulers (monarchs). The Romanovs (Russia) and the Habsburgs (Austrian-Hungarian Empire) had fallen. As WWI's primary cause was too much 'organization' via alliances, post WWI Europe had too little organization. Russia experimented with an attempt to achieve communism, Germany was trying a republic, and Austria was working in a pseudo-democratic state under a strong central leader. With so much internal chaos, it was very hard to keep tabs on what every over zealous potential leader was trying to do. The depression escalated these problems. Each country was frantically concerend with internal stability both political and economical. Ignorance is not an excuse, but distraction may well be.
4. When borders were redrawn, splitting up the two empires of central europe, there was no regard given to cultural differences. This fed the fire of discontent, and obviously, Jews, gypsies, and Slavs were particularly preyed upon.
5. The military and it's leaders were very unhappy with the treaty reached. They felt it was unfair, unreasonable, and that they had been betrayed by their country's politicians. This did not exclude the section about the League of Nations; which by the way proved quite ineffective.

Hope this was helpful. As I said, there are MANY more connections if you but look. :)

Answer 5

Stephanie, that was a good answer to your question, but a few more details need to be addressed. When WW1 ended, the German army had the belief that they were stabbed in the back by the politicians at home. Consequently after the long march back, they firmly believed that is was as an undefeated nation. If you combine this attitude with the aforementioned points such as The Versailles Treaty it served as a melting pot for National discontent.

Other relevant issues are:

The hasty and ill considered set up of the League of Nations, ( properly recognised and rectified with The United Nations 30 odd years later ).

The indiscriminate redefining of national boundaries, without proper consideration of background, culture, religion or beliefs.

The period of prosperity felt in Germany and around the world in the early 20's was in many ways to make the onset of the Depression much harder to take. These are but a few of the points that led to the rise of National Socialism in Germany.

In short, although hindsight is 20/20 the method in which the Allies dealt with Germany after WW1 has been proven to be greatly flawed, thus the, 'new and improved' version in 1945. In my view WW2 was a direct consequence of these errors of judgement in the aftermath of WW1.

In answer to your question of the effects on todays society. The displacement of the peoples of Europe resulted in the highly multi cultural societies that we see spanning the globe today.

Also if there are any benefits to come from global conflict it has been shown that the consequent herculean leaps in science/technology are direct results of the forced need to produce the best machinery for each others side. Advances such as Radar, Rockets, Computers etc these are all direct offshoots of this need.

You can also add that Germany's industry was restricted to what it can develop. This was partly to prevent Germany from building up heavy industry which could be later turned to produce weapons.

Unfortunately this also meant Germany's economic growth was also restricted. They were required to paid for war damages to the allies but was prevented to build up her economy to do so. In effect the allies had forced Germany into perpetual debt. One reason why they had to borrow from the US.

There were several economists who predicted this would lead to problems later on.

Answer 6

1. Treaty of Versailles and its horrendous exorbitant reparations against Germany
2. League of Nations was too weak without the US and did not stop people like Hitler and Mussolini and the Japanese from territorial aggrandizement up to the war.
3. Worldwide Depression gave impetus for people like Hitler and Nazism to gain control in Germany

Answer 7

Germany was left in ruin after the war the people where in poverty do to reparations and thus where willing to support anyone who promised a better future

Answer 8

Left Germany with desire to get revenge for what it felt was unfair treatment in the peace settlement.
Created an unstable world economic system (see: reparations)
Creation of Soviet Union and rise of communism.

Answer 9

heres one:

The Treaty of Versailles left Germany in a really bad state and that really annoyed the germans so then they had WW2.