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Causes of World War 2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Started with negotiations about the Sudetenland, led to Hitler receiving all of Czechoslovakia
        
        Inspired Hitler to go further
        
        Deterred potential allies
        
        Demolished efforts for collective security
        
        Weakened the reliability of the League even further
        
        Particularly inspired Stalin to align the USSR with Nazi Germany. Despite the ideological differences and open hatred of Germany, Stalin and his advisors likely felt that this would give the USSR time to rearm, rather than depending on the Capitalistic British and France who would probably throw him under the bus anyway.
  - - - British appeasement offered Germany the green-light to rearm in exchange for a promise for peace. Hitler did not accept, but recognized the British’s reluctance to take any action against German rearmament.
  - - - Anschluss
      - Spanish Civil War
      - Abyssinia
        
        Unreliability
      - Munich Conference
      - German Rearmament of the Rhineland
      - Czechoslovakia
      - Manchuria
- - - - Czech Crisis
        
        Meeting between Benes and Heinlein sees Benes surprisingly concede to yet more Nazi demands, which included Home Rule for Sudeten Germans. This inspired Hitler to push further.
        
        After rumors about Operation Green spread to Czechoslovakia, the Czech army mobilized. Hitler saw this as an "act of aggression" and replied with mobilization, drawing the attention of French PM Daladier and British PM Chamberlain.
        
        Berchtesgaden, Bad Godesberg, Munich Conference
        
        After the Munich conference, the Czechs were told that if they wanted to keep the territory, they would have to fight Germany alone. But if the Czechs gave in now, the others would protect their future independence. Thus, on October 1st, 1938, Czech frontier guards abandoned post and the German troops now occupied the Sudetenland. Polish and Hungarian troops even also came to seize territory.
        
        While Hitler publicly signed an agreement that promised to end territorial claims in Europe, he was secretly planning "operation white" to occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.
        
        May Crisis: Benes Mobilizes, Britain and France Issue Warnings, Nazis back down, Hitler orders "Operation Green" to take the Sudetenland
      - Hitler sort of always wanted war to begin. He was ready for a long time
  - - - Chamberlain saw the guarantee as a warning to Hitler but Stalin saw it as a support for a potential enemy
- - - - Created foreign resentments that aligned many with the policies of particular political movements.
      - Created a State of Unrest
      - Failure to solve the widespread problems led to discontent with established governments, making it more plausible for those most heavily effected by the Depression to sway to political extremes and away from the establishment.
    - - Italy after the Invasion of Abyssinia: Completely useless against Italy itself, and demonstrated the weaknesses of the League. It's reliability and strength further deteriorated.
      - Japan after the invasion of Manchuria: provoked Japan and essentially begins the process of their abandonment of the League.
  - - - Italian promises were not fulfilled
    - - Germany felt that they had been improperly punished by the Treaty. The repercussions and following actions from other countries promoted the November myth and traitors within the Jewish and Slavic communities.