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WW2 : The Causes Of World War Two

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On the 1st of September, Britain and France Declared war on Germany. WW2 was the biggest war are the last World war. World wars have a massive effect on the world with money, Resource and death being a big part of wars. But what are the causes of world war two, Germany Breaking their treaty by having too much military power and invading Poland. Japan needing more land and invading china resolving that Germany allies with japan or that Hitler wanting to make a new and more powerful Germany. All these things factored into the start of WW2 The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 was resulting in ww1 ending when Germany lost the war which the made a agreement which Germany had no choice but to agree to. The agreement was that Germany had to claim all the blame for ww2, That the German army would only be able to have 100,000 thousand men there would be no general staff; The making of any tanks, armored cars, submarines, airplanes, and poison gas was forbidden, A small number of places could make weapons and munition. All the Rhineland would be demilitarized. Another big part of the Treaty was the league of nations was assembled which was the allied powers trying to make a way of keeping peace which didn’t work. A lot of land which Germany claimed was giving back to the countries, Saar land a state of Germany was put on supervision by the league of nations. Germany also had to pay 33 Billion in civilian damage caused during ww1. Germany would not be able to pay this money

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