What caused World War II?

Answer 1

There were many factors that helped bring about WWII, and there is no simple one-sentence answer. Many people figure that WWI never truly ended, that WWII was simply a case of everybody taking up arms again to finish the unfinished business from the first conflict. There were a lot of Europeans who were dissatisfied with the way WWI was settled and wanted to re-write the treaties they'd signed. Hitler, who had served in the first war, came into it with an insane hatred of Jews & Communists and was determined they should pay for Germany's humiliation with their very existence, while at the same time securing Germany's rightful place as leader of the new world order.

In the far East, Japan was flexing its muscles and trying to take over all of Asia and the west Pacific in what they saw as their inherent right as the master race in their region. The US & Britain were in their way and denying them materials they needed to carry out their war, so they decided to attack US & British holdings in the Pacific with a swift knockout punch that would guarantee them an easy win. Their first blows were indeed decisive, but by no means the war-winning strikes they had invisioned.

Nobody figured the British would be able to stand on their own, nor did they figure the US would want to get involved (especially after losing half their fleet at Pearl Harbor). And they sincerely didn't believe the US would unite with the UK, turning the allied forces into an unbeatable juggernaut.

Answer 2

Needlessly harsh retribution by France and England against Germany after world war I.
They refused to release POW's and Germany became a nation of orphans.
Add to that the depression and nobody believing that the war to end all wars did not end all wars and there you go.

Answer 3

Wrong section dude! But I'll answer anyways. Harsh conditions imposed by the Allies (except the US who did not approve of it) which ended up bankrupting Germany and making the German Mark essentially useless. Hitler came into power because he was a great speech maker (don't get me wrong, I don't like him at all), and talked of giving the German people better lives.

Answer 4

Some would say the harsh conditions placed on Germany after WW1 led to a country desperate enough to allow Adolf to come to power

Answer 5

The treaty of Versailles after WWI when the Western victors cut up Europe.

Answer 6

i do no longer think of the Asatru faith had plenty to do with it. faith performed a function in propaganda of working human beings as much as justify their therapy of others. maximum Germans and maximum militia contributors have been Catholics. Nationalism replaced into additionally a gadget used. the actual subjects that permit Hitler's upward push to capability nonetheless replaced into the poverty and financial disparity that got here out of WWI. existence replaced into very perplexing for the folk as replaced into the adjustment from being area of an empire to being a depressed and remoted u . s .. They have been vulnerable to somebody preaching they could upward push to greatness and promising financial threat and prosperity. Hitler replaced right into a motivational speaker who informed human beings what they wanted to hearken to. that there have been born to greatness and had a much bigger destiny and greater useful circumstances forward.

Answer 7

there are a lot of things that caused World War II. it depends on who you ask.

Answer 8

World war1

Answer 9

Hitler's hunger for unlimited power. They should have listened to Churchill.

Answer 10

Europe's inability to confront Hitler when he was a growing threat due to their belief in appeasement.