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Causes of WW2 - Coggle Diagram
Causes of WW2
Treaty of Versailles
Reparations
War Guilt Clause
Hyperinflation
Need to pay for Preparations
No money to pay with
Money loses its Value
Rise of Fascism
Promised Gains
Unemployement Rates
Italy and Japan rise of Fascism
Mussolini came in to power
Rize of Nazism in Germany
World Wide Economic Depression
Many European Countries were unstable after WW!
U.S Stock Markets Crashed in 1929
The Great Depression spread throughout the world
Restrictive Tariff policies worsened
US isolation
1929 Market Collapse
US withdraw loans for Germany
Hitler's rise of Power
Stab in the back myth
Propaganda
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.
Exploitation of fear of instability and loss
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
Hitler's Rearmament
Strong Airforce
Broke the treaty to increase the navy and army
Hitler Aggression
Hitler's annexation of Austria in 1938
Allies showed no opposition
Invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939
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
Japanese Expansionism
Invasion of Manchuria
Weakness of League of Nations
Soviet Union and Germany Pact
Invading Poland from East and West
Declaration of war from Britain and France 2nd of September 1939
USA and USSR join the Allied side
Not to attack each other
23-24 August 1939, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact