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Second World War Causes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Motivation
        
        Show Italian strength
        
        Gain territory and goods
        
        Avenge the italian defeat in 1890
      - Consequences related with WW2 start
        
        Increased the tension between Italy and LoN
        
        The league of Nations became more strict with the aggressive nations
        
        Better relation with Germany
    - - Causes
        
        Mussolini saw this as an opportunity to show the Italian power
        
        Mussolini supported the fascists governments
      - Consequences related to the outbreak of the War
        
        Increased tension with Britain and France
        
        Lead to leaving the LoN and having alliances with Hitler
    - - Orthodox view
        
        Mussolini's foreign policy was ineffective, immoral, designed for the public opinions.
        
        Lacked clear objectives
      - Revisionist view
        
        Mussolini have some coherent aims and ideas in his foreign policy.
        
        One was "spazio vitale"
        
        North Africa and Middle East was their goal
        
        He used an aggressive foreign policy to deflect public attention away from domestic problems
        
        Weak positions among the European powers (nothing near to a power)
      - Mussolini and Germany
        
        Philip Morgan opinion
        
        Pact of Steel was an expression of parallel desires between Hitler and Mussolini
        
        D.C. Watt, Denis Mack Smith opinions
        
        Was the example of Mussolini's idea of "always keeping options open"
- - - - Caused by the need of oil, because of the U.S embargo.
      - Japan was a menace to the colonies of the U.S, so they decided to act
      - Right wing Japanese Historians
        
        Japan was liberating Asia from the abuses of Western colonialism
        
        Japan was forced to war because of the oil embargo
        
        They identified 1941 as the starting point of the Great War.
    - - Invasion to northern China looking for raw materiales like oil and commerce using the railroads.
      - Left wing Japanese Historians
        
        Manchurian event was the beginning of the war in the Pacific
        
        The responsible for the 15 years war since 1931.
  - - - Sino Japanese War 2
        
        Long war with a lot of deaths and a huge disadvantage for Japan's economy.
        
        Far Right Historians of Japan
        
        Masaaki Tanaka believes that the rape of Nanking was a lie, which means he thought that, there were not so many deaths.
        
        Orthodox USA Historians
        
        Pacific war started in 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge incident (cause of 2 SJW)
        
        Japan was the only responsible for the Pacific events
        
        Perfect example of Japanese aggression is Pearl Harbor
      - Traditionalists Historians
        
        The emperor didn't wanted war, but the military factor was stronger so he had no choice.
  - - - They were encouraging Japanese actions
- - - - In 1938 Chamberlain negotiated with Germany and agreed on not taking over Czechoslovakia, he was unable to accomplish his goals
        
        Orthodox view
        
        Thanks to Chamberlain's failure, the aggressive German policy was posible while Britain and France had no major allies
        
        Revisionist view
        
        They acknowledged Chamberlain's failure but focused more in the economic, social and politic factors.
    - - RevisionistHistorians
        
        Believe that the Second World War started before on Manchuria
      - Orthodox Historians
        
        Saw this action as the beginning of the second world war
    - - Revisionist view
        
        Rejected the idea of Hitler being a powerful leader who controlled events. They saw him as an indecisive and weak
        
        They saw his Germany as a minefield full of disagreements and chaos
      - Orthodox view
        
        They view Hitler as a aggressive, unprincipled and opportunist leader that responded to the flow of events in a flexible way
      - Return to the old Great Germany
  - - - Annexation of
        
        Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
        
        Austria (Anschluss)
      - Invasion of Poland