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Causes of WWII - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Both politically and economically the people wanted a strong leader to pull them out of the despair (link to the rise of racism)
    - - German dissatisfaction in European Politics
    - - war was seemingly considered a "last resort" in the British empire
    - - not a peace treaty but an "armistice"
  - - - This was also a con however as the colonies were very expensive to uphold and the smallest problem abroad could destabilize Europe
    - - It also had the bigger victor countries preying on smaller ones, like Mussolini in the Balkans
  - - - The US took on an official policy of neutrality
      - Student-led peace protests were common in Europe
- - - - With the flow of money to and from France and the UK and the reparation from Germany being paid, it made the American economy soar and created the Golden Age of the Weimar Republic
        
        When the stock market crashed it sent all of Europe into a crisis along with it
        
        Germany experienced huge unemployment and inflation and this eventually led to the rise of a nationalistic and expansionist belief among the people. It also led people to believe further into the criminalization of the November Criminals
        
        Increased the rivalries of the eastern and western powers economically and politically
        
        European powers could not expand their military just as the nationalistic mindset stared to rise amongst the people
    - - Hitler begun by tearing apart the ToV and set about to expand the army through conscription and paying for military expansion
        
        The Anglo-German Naval Agreement seemingly put a limit on German military expansion but eventually led to an agreement for German expansion
      - Eventually went to remilitarize the Rhineland from French occupancy and had a part in the Spanish Civil War in expanding Facism
      - Went through with Anschluss which was against the ToV but the French and British did nothing to stop Hitler
      - Eventually expanding also into Czechoslovakia and Poland ignoring the Munich Agreement
  - - - Acting in their own best interests and avoided war when possible, but joining when it was beneficial. Overall, not stopping problems that were obvious in facism and hoped that the problem would go away when it eventually got stronger
- - - - This seemed beneficial to the people as Italy was succeeding in expanding its army and expanding its Spazio Vitale into different countries like the Balkans an Abyssinia
        
        Used symbols of Ancient Rome to appeal to the people as an appeal tot he past narrative
      - With Italy colonizing it interrupted the power structure of Western Europe
        
        This appealed to the nationalistic people of Italy but scared the West
    - - Preached eugenics and Social Darwinism
      - Was fueled by a "restoration" and a need to "Lebensraum" which appealed again to the Nationalism in Germany
      - A justification for war was built by the amount of German speaking peoples that were not a part of Germany in countries like Czechoslovakia and Austria