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Essay about Causes of World War Two

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World War two has to be the most famous war of all time. It was the largest, most tragic, horrifying of them all, and the first to have millions of people killed in the duration of it. Is it just me, or does it seem rather ironic that the very thing that was meant to solve the first World War is the most important of all of the causes of the second? And that the people who were supposed to fix the problems that that war caused were only really helping another along? The "war to end all wars" did not do that at all. Things like expansion and appeasement and the rise of dictators were obviously all for the war as well. So. Let me start with appeasement. Why was it such a large part of this war? There were so many people wanting so much …show more content…

And with all of the dictators sprouting up all over the place, all wanting more land, it?s a wonder the war did not start sooner than it did! The main reason for Hitler?s coming into power was his promise to bring Germany back up from its fall after World War One. The Great Depression was upon them, and it was bad enough that people were burning their money to keep them warm because of how worthless it was. Everything else just cost too much. It was obvious that the country was hurting so very much, and they would have taken any way out that they could find. It was a horrid thing, and it lets us all know how people will act upon being in the midst of economic disasters such as that. And, then, for the cause that I think is the most crucial. The Treaty of Versailles. Hitler, and the rest of Germany I?m sure, found this treaty to be harsh and unfair. Why should they have to be the ones that had to pay for everything? Why shouldn?t they be allowed to build an army as strong as they could? They could have gotten attacked, and without the best army they could manage, they would be unable to protect themselves. So they violated the treaty, in multiple fashions, and that in itself was enough to cause the war without any help from the other causes up above. Europe was doomed. The whole world was. Hitler, being the most obvious

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