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World War II in Europe

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World War II was after the war that was supposed to be “the war to end all wars”, but World War II started just over a couple decades later. World War II started because of Germany and Japan’s greedy wants of more land, and they were willing to use force to acquire it, spiraling many countries of the world into war. The total aftermath of this war ended up being 60 million people or 2.5 percent of the world's population at the time. The people who said WWI was the war to end all wars could not have had nightmares about the horrifying events of WWII. World War II was a massive conflict across continents that ultimately caused by one man, this man being Adolf Hitler. Hitler’s rise to power began when he joined the Nazi political party in …show more content…

Before his speeches Hitler would let the crowd wait building tension and anxiety while military music and when Hitler finally came out there would be shouts of “Heil” to show worship to Hitler and the Nazis.(The Rise of Hitler) Germany had become the Nazi Germany that Hitler had wanted it to become. On September 14,1930, election day, the Germans voted the Nazi party into 107 seats of the German government, and thus making the Nazi party the second largest party in German politics.(Weinberg, Gerhard L.) In celebration of the victory the SS decided to smash all the glass of jewish stores in Germany, foreshadowing events to come under Nazi Germany. Even with the large support for the Nazi party, Hitler lost in the elections to become prime minister of Germany because many people thought he would become dictator and start a reign of terror. Hitler did eventually gain the prime minister position he so badly needed for his plans, and set the wheels of WWII and the Holocaust into motion. When Hitler took control of Germany he changed the prime minister position into a dictator position, so he could control everything that went on around Germany. Hitler wanted to regain land lost at the end of WWII, so he annexed Austria back into Germany. Hitler then started urging the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia that was mostly German, to rejoin Germany. This forced

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