Causes of WW2
Treaty of Versailles
Hyperinflation
Reparations
War Guilt Clause
Rise of Fascism
Need to pay for Preparations
Promised Gains
No money to pay with
Money loses its Value
World Wide Economic Depression
Unemployement Rates
Italy and Japan rise of Fascism
Rize of Nazism in Germany
US isolation
Many European Countries were unstable after WW!
1929 Market Collapse
U.S Stock Markets Crashed in 1929
US withdraw loans for Germany
The Great Depression spread throughout the world
Restrictive Tariff policies worsened
Hitler's rise of Power
Stab in the back myth
Propaganda
Exploitation of fear of instability and loss
Japanese Expansionism
Invasion of Manchuria
Weakness of League of Nations
Invasion
League of Nation weakness
Appeasement
Fear of communism
Britain and France had financial strains
Britain thought the Treaty was too harsh
Hitler had rearmed
Mussolini came in to power
Hitler's Rearmament
Strong Airforce
Broke the treaty to increase the navy and army
Hitler Aggression
Hitler's annexation of Austria in 1938
Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939
Allies showed no opposition
Warning of War from the Allies
Violation of the Munich Agreement
The Sudetenland had been conceded by the British in exchange for Hitler agreeing not to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union and Germany Pact
Invading Poland from East and West
Not to attack each other
23-24 August 1939, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
Declaration of war from Britain and France 2nd of September 1939
USA and USSR join the Allied side
Exploiting and providing hope for the citizens because of their fear of loss and instability.
Anti-semitism was drastically increasing in Germany because of Hitler
Hitler used scapegoats and blamed the war on other parties such as the communists and the Jews.