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Lastly the Treaty humiliated Germany because they had no say in it. Document D states, “What they knew of the treaty was etched indelibly in their minds [...] humiliation” The Treaty of Versailles undermined Germany’s sense of worth and made them feel like outcasts. Therefore this degradation only fueled the German’s enthusiasm from the Nazi regime when Hitler forced the world to look at Germany anew.

In a letter to his wife, he discussed that his main motive was to bring peace and save more lives. He said “I've gotten what 1 came for—Stalin goes to war on August 15 with no strings on it. I'll say that we'll end the war a year sooner now, and think of the kids who won't be killed!”

Hitler also gained power because of his charisma and how much the people already were furious because of the failure with the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler also exploited the constitutional and political problems inside of the Weimar republic. These facts and pieces of evidence claim that “Hitler and the Nazi Party gained power in Germany by exploiting the economical problems and constitutional weaknesses of the Weimar Republic” can be supported by three pieces of

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace signifying the end of WW1. The Germans were held responsible for all the deconstruction and costs and had no choice but to sign it. The treaty detailed Germany’s loss of territory and debt to other nations. After WW1, Germany experienced severe economic turmoil, including problems like inflation and unemployment. As a result, Germany view the Treaty of Versailles as unfair. They wanted their territories back and freedom to operate their economic as they wished. Germany was unable to compete internationally due to the treaty crippling their economic powers, thus breeding dissent towards the Allies.

Germany and the Soviet Union had signed what is known as “Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact” of 1939 in order to acquire Poland’s land together. Although Hitler and Stalin did not like one another, they decided to put their differences aside for the moment in order to seize the opportunity. Hitler was interested in what was known as the Polish Corridor which had separated Germany from another piece of its property due to the Treaty of Versailles. Stalin was simply interested in expansion of Russia, and had plans to attack Germany once taking over Poland was successful. Germany took part in what was known as the

In this essay I research studied and explained how three different reasons and people that are involved in causing World War 2. I explained the reasons on why Woodrow, George Clemenceau and Lloyd what the peace treaty that leads to war. I also mentioned how fascism was involved with starting WW2, and by driven by his sense of aggressive nationalism he gained power. I explained how evil Hitler was involved in causing World War 2, the plans he had and the fear of socialism was going to be stop by a strong

The nationalist power-politics in Germany were promoted heavily. There were strong advocates for imperialism who also pushed for advancing Germany's weapon's technology and strong army.

They sent 409,500 vehicles, 43% of all soviet tyres, 56% of rails and 1900 locomotives and 58% of high octane fuel and 200 fighter planes, 4 million pairs of boots as well as large quantities of rubber, tin and cloth, respectively. This supports the scheme was a ‘sacrifice’ as some of the supplies sent to the USSR negatively impacted Britain’s supplies. Some including Stalin and the USSR criticised the level of assistance given. Overy argues against criticisms of the supplies by showing that the post-war soviet viewpoint that assistance ‘could have no decisive influence’ and concludes that without the aid, the Russian economy would have been ‘severely hampered’. This seems to dismiss claims that the West had neglected Russia’s needs. He argues that even though western aid accounted for only ‘4% of soviet weapons’ the impact was far greater as ‘food, raw materials, machinery and industrial equipment’ were donated. Both Gilbert and Overy are British historians who would have been biased in favour of the wests position and may have been sceptical of Russia’s claims as both historians were raised during the cold war. But when looking at the views in the official ‘soviet history’ of World War Two, the publication’s context should be considered: the Russians had a vested interest in misrepresenting events due to their post-war situation. After the Second World War the Cold War arose and the USSR were keen to distance

As I’m sure most people know Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Germans from August 2 1934 to April 30 1945, but do you know that as Fuhrer of Germany he was the driving force behind the start of WWII. During his reign he tried to bring Germany back to the powerful country it had been before the First World War. In this paper I will prove that Hitler’s actions lead to start of WWII, and I plan to prove how his direct disregard of the Treaty of Versailles pushed the world into WWII.

Once the Nazis were in power, the fear of communism and outbreak of another world war affected European diplomacy which gave way to appeasement: a major factor contributing the causes of WWII. Hitler was carrying out his 4 aims in foreign policy which included: lebensraum, racial purity, an end to the treaty of Versailles, and the unification of the German peoples; threatening his neighboring countries. Britain resorted to appeasement which was meant to put off war and grant Germany its wishes as in reality the country had been undergoing a constant struggle for the past decades and Britain felt partly responsible. Allowing Germany to do

Once eliminating Trotsky, Stalin’s idea of, “socialism in our country,” inevitably meant that Russia needed strength. The productions in the USSR had almost reached pre-war levels by the mid-1920s, but the population of Russia had also increased by 20 million people. No matter, Stalin assured that maximum efforts and resources would be given to the expansion and strengthening of Russia herself rather than an effort to start a revolution elsewhere. This is explained in his famous 1931 speech, gaining power for himself. The people had nowhere else to turn to and needed a leader. Stalin was there and knew what to do to make the people interested in his ideas, thus acquired their trust and control. From these ideas, he created his first

3. Stalin supports United Nations but insisted on the Soviet Union keeping the portion of Poland they occupied in 1939

The invasion of Russia was further enticing to Hitler as both a strategic and economic maneuver, allowing for a gain in land and resources. Russia’s rich land provided Hitler with oil and grain to help sustain the Reich and future Aryan race. Furthermore, the proposed existing state of the Soviet Union presented Russia as unsuspecting and unprepared for attack, with a weakened army that possessed a false sense of security towards Hitler’s intentions. Weakened by

What was the cause of World War II? What were some of the ways that the Jews were treated during this time? What created the participation of the United States in the war? How where the Americans and the rest of the world affected by the war? World War II was the second largest war in the entire history of world. The war consisted of two sides, the Axis Powers, which included Germany, Japan, and Italy. The other side, the Allies, consisting of the United States of America, France, Britain, Australia, Canada, and the Soviet Union.

treaty with Poland, promising military support should it be attacked.” (“Germans Invade Poland.”) World War II had gotten more than 50 countries to be a part of the Allies who were against the Axis. These countries were led by Great Britain, The Soviet Union, France, China and The