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World War II: How Did It Start?


after roughly 20 years of peace the
world went to war for a second time
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be exploring how World War 2 began the
Second World War is considered a direct
result of the first world war due to
unresolved tensions and anger from that
conflict however the Great Depression of
the 1930s was another factor that led to
bitterness and his shift in public
attitudes towards strict dictatorships
World War one also facilitated the rise
of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party
Hitler’s allies in Italy and Japan also
acted aggressively with the hope of
expanding their territories hostilities
by these countries towards the communism
of the Soviet Union was just another
factor that helped lead to war in fact a
number of ideologies helped spark the
war aggressive expansionism by countries
like Germany and Italy fascist
dictatorships and deep-seated racism
were all considered contributing factors
this racism was mostly in Germany where
the Nazis believed the Aryan race was
the master race and superior to the
Slavic people the countries that
eventually formed the Allied alliance
acted passively in the face of the axis
threat this was partly out of sympathy
partly out of guilt because of the
Treaty of Versailles that blamed the
Germans for World War one and partly
because countries like Britain
underestimated Hitler meanwhile the
League of Nations proved itself
ineffective in the fight to keep the
peace a few months after Japan withdrew
from the League of Nations in 1933
Germany did the same in 1935 Germany
violated the Treaty of Versailles by
introducing mandatory military
conscription and by beginning rearmament
that country continued to violate the
treaty in the years that followed in
fact in 1936 Hitler remilitarization II
formed their important alliance with
Italy soon after the two countries
offered support to the separatist
movement in the Spanish Civil War while
the existing government was supported by
the Soviet Union these events
foreshadowed the second world
as both sides were testing different
methods and weapons battle one specific
event that foretold the horrors of world
war two was the April 1937 bombing of
Guernica by 1938 Hitler’s motives were
clearer in a move referred to as the
Angelus the Nazis annex Austria into
Germany despite the fact this also
violated the Treaty of else.i later that
year Hitler was appeased by both Britain
and France when they signed the Munich
Agreement this allowed Hitler to
overtake a german-speaking section of
Czechoslovakia in order to keep the
peace in August 1939 Nazi Germany signed
a peace treaty with the Soviet Union
however the first official event of
world war ii followed soon after due to
long-standing tensions Germany invaded
Poland on September 1st 1939 Britain and
France warned Germany that should the
troops not withdraw war was imminent
when the Nazis did nothing Britain and
France declared war on Germany and World
War two officially began
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