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Key events that led to ww2 - Coggle Diagram
Key events that led to ww2
Great depression
Economic boom
Development of technology.
More employments
Increased the amount of money
Wall ST crash
Thousands of American companies went bankrupt and shareholders were ruined.
Had a knock-on effect and Americans banks collapsed.
Depression
Unemployment and poverty grew.
Extreme political parties.
Also caused great social problems
Japan had been dependent economically on its exports.
Expansionista ideology
Hitler
He wanted to gain power over continental Europe.
He despised the liberal nature of the American government.
Was the leader of the national socialist.
Had come to power in 1933.
He told his military commanders that he would begin rearmament.
Weakness of the League Nations
It would struggle to challenge powerful nations
Enforce its resolutions on economic sanctions
New alliances
Hitler sent military assistance in the Spanish Civil War.
Hitler took personal command of the armed forces.
Hitler made alliances with both Italy and Japan.
He believed Germany was now strong enough to begin to bring Germans.