What were some of the main reasons for the start of world war II?

Answer 1

1. Global Depression
2. The formation of the League of Nations
3. the complete humiliation of the German people after WWI

Answer 2

a million. the two Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland mutually in 1939. 2. Britain venerated her treaty with Poland and WII in Europe began. 3. On December seventh, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. 4. On December twelfth, 1941 Adolf Hitler declared conflict against usa. international conflict II became underway.

Answer 3

First of all Hitler and his supporters believed that their race was superior to everyone else and that they should be the rulers of all. Also Germany felt they were punished wrongly for World War I and wanted revenge. Because the whole country was in ruin, the people believed that Hitler could improve their lives.

Answer 4

The second world war was a direct result of an unsatisfactory surrender by Germany at the end of WW1... everything leading up the WW2 was a result of the way the Germans felt they had been cheated.

Answer 5

Reasons - - - -plural?

One reason.

Adolf Hitler.

What contributed to Hitler's mania for power was the inneptitude of the French and British Governments and the failure of Diplomacy.

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Answer 6

Events leading up to the war in Europe
Main articles: Causes of World War II, Events preceding World War II in Europe, and Interwar period

Benito Mussolini of Fascist Italy (left) and Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany.Germany and France had been struggling for dominance in Continental Europe for 80 years and had fought two previous wars, the Franco-Prussian War and World War I. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Communist revolutionary movements began spreading across Europe, briefly taking power in both Budapest and Bavaria; in response, fascist and nationalist groups were born.[3]

In 1922, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his fascist party took control of the Kingdom of Italy and set the model for German dictator Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, which, aided by the civil unrest caused by the Great Depression, took power in Germany and eliminated its democratic government, the Weimar Republic. These two leaders began to re-militarise their countries and become increasingly hostile. Mussolini first conquered the African nation of Abyssinia and then seized Albania, with both Italy and Germany actively supporting Francisco Franco's fascist Falange party in the Spanish Civil War against the Second Spanish Republic (which was supported by the Soviet Union). Hitler then broke the Treaty of Versailles by increasing the size of the Germany’s military, and remilitarized the Rhineland. He started his own expansion by annexing Austria and sought the same against the German-speaking regions (Sudetenland) of Czechoslovakia.

The British and French governments followed a policy of appeasement in order to avoid military confrontation after the high cost of the First World War. This policy culminated in the Munich Agreement in 1938, which would give the Sudetenland to Germany in exchange for Germany making no further territorial claims in Europe.[4][5] In March 1939, Germany annexed the remainder of Czechoslovakia. Mussolini, following suit, invaded and annexed Albania in April.

The failure of the Munich Agreement pushed the United Kingdom and France to prepare for war with Germany. France and Poland pledged on May 19, 1939, to provide each other with military assistance in the event either was attacked. The following August, the British guaranteed the same.

On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which provided for sales of oil and food from the Soviets to Germany, thus reducing the danger of a British blockade such as the one that had nearly starved Germany in World War I. Also included was a secret agreement that would divide Central Europe into German and Soviet areas of interest, including a provision to partition Poland. Each country agreed to allow the other a free hand in its area of influence, including military occupation.


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Causes of World War II
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German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, shelling Westerplatte, September 1, 1939.
Destroyer USS Shaw exploding after her forward magazine was detonated during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.The immediate causes of World War II are generally understood to be the German invasion of Poland, and expansionism on the part of the Empire of Japan, culminating in attacks on several countries in December 1941, especially one against Pearl Harbor, a United States naval base. In each of these situations, the attacks were the result of a decision made by authoritarian ruling elites in Germany and Japan. World War II started after these aggressive actions were met with an official declaration of war and/or armed resistance.

Contents [hide]
1 Ideological causes
1.1 Appeasement
1.2 Communism
1.3 Expansionism
1.4 Fascism
1.5 Isolationism
1.6 Militarism
1.7 Nationalism
1.8 Racism
2 Interrelations and economics
2.1 Treaty of Versailles
2.2 Competition for resources
2.3 League of Nations
2.4 The Great Depression
2.5 European Civil War

Answer 7

Hitler's desire to create a German empire