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Why Did Hitler Want To Jump Into World War 2

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How did unfinished business in World War 1 cause World War 2 to exists? At the peace conference in Paris in 1919, Allied leaders state their desire to build a post-war world that would safeguard itself against future conflicts. The Versailles Treaty, signed on June 28, 1919, would not achieve this objective. Saddled with war guilt and heavy reparations and denied entrance into the League of Nations, Germany felt tricked into signing the treaty, having believed any peace would be a “peace without victory” as put forward by Wilson in his famous Fourteen Points speech of January 1918. As the years passed, hatred of the Versailles treaty and its authors settled into a smoldering resentment in Germany that would cause World War 2. Why did Hitler want to destroy most of Europe's Population of Jews? To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. He said that ¨the Jews were taking jobs from people in Germany¨. He also wanted to kill the Jews because they had different beliefs as him and the German People. The Jews which were coming from the Middle East were taking up much of Europe and taking many of jobs. Then mostly had bank jobs and they would deal with money. Hitler didn’t like that the Jews had bank jobs because he thought many of them would steal money from the banks. …show more content…

Before the war started he got allies from Japan which would fight the United States. He also got many other smaller countries in Europe to join him in the war to. His attack on Poland in 1939 started World War II. After the attack on Poland, France and Great Britain then claimed war on Germany. By 1941 Germany occupied much of Europe and North Africa. The tide of the war turned following an invasion of Russian and the U.S. entry into battle. The United States also joined after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, by the Japanese. The United States then lost many navy

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