Causes of World War Two
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- Created on: 20-09-17 10:08
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- Causes of World War Two
- The Great Depression
- The period after the Wall Street Crash (1929), when lots of countries were suffering economic hardship
- U.S.A recall their loans/ Dawes Plan in the hope of stablilising their own economy
- Everyone suffers economic hardship
- Causes Britain and France to cut military spending in order to stabilise theeconomy
- Sympathy for Germany comes about
- Breeding ground for extremism
- Rise of dictators
- Europe unprepared for war
- Russia
- Nazi-Soviet Pact formed
- Agreement between Russia and Germany
- Agreed to divide Poland
- If one side declares war, the other will stay out of it
- Germany secures Eastern border; this gives Hitler the confidence to take Poland and risk a 'one front war'.
- Nazi-Soviet Pact formed
- Rise of dictators - Hitler
- Hitler is very aggressive - war focused
- Lebensraum - "living space" -extend German borders to have lots of land for 'ethnic Germans' and space for 'non-desirables'
- Break the Treaty of Versailles; massively unhappy as he believed Germany was never defeated - 'Dolschtoss' - 'Stab-in-the-back theory'
- Ways Germany breaks ToV:
- Re-arming
- Taking land
- Ways Germany breaks ToV:
- Policies required him to go to war
- Hitler is very aggressive - war focused
- League of Nations
- Designed to keep peace in the world
- Some success in the 1920s, but by the 1950s it was dead
- Manchuria
- Abyssinia
- Abyssinia
- Manchuria
- How it failed:
- Not everyone was a member
- U.S.A
- Sanctions
- No collective army
- Economic fails
- Britain and France self-interest
- Proves to Hitler that the League of Nations cannot stops him, which gives him confidence
- Not everyone was a member
- Some success in the 1920s, but by the 1950s it was dead
- Designed to keep peace in the world
- Appeasement
- The policy of giving someone what they want in the hope that they don't ask for more
- Britain and France appease Germany
- Versailles was too harsh
- This shows they were trying to buy time to develop military
- Military was not ready for war
- Chamberlain believed Hitler would stop
- Wanted to avoid another WW1
- Gives Hitler the strength to declare war
- This also makes him demand more and more
- This also makes him demand more and more
- Britain and France appease Germany
- The policy of giving someone what they want in the hope that they don't ask for more
- Treaty of Verailles
- Peace treaty given to Germany to signify the end of World War One
- 28th of June 1919
- Why it causes war:
- Harsh
- 14 points = reasonable / ToV = unreasonable
- Cutting of military
- 100,000 army
- No submarines
- No air force
- Reparations
- £6.6 billion
- Cutting of military
- Due to this Britain and France appease
- German confidence = strength
- 14 points = reasonable / ToV = unreasonable
- Dictat - Germany excluded from negotiations
- Harsh
- 14 points = reasonable / ToV = unreasonable
- Cutting of military
- 100,000 army
- No submarines
- No air force
- Reparations
- £6.6 billion
- Cutting of military
- Due to this Britain and France appease
- German confidence = strength
- 14 points = reasonable / ToV = unreasonable
- Harsh
- Hitler uses it to get support for foreign policy
- Harsh
- 1 - Re-arming
- 2 - Rhineland
- 3 - Anschluss
- 4 - Sudetenland
- Munich Conference
- 5 - Czechoslavakia
- 6 - Poland
- TRIGGERS WAR
- 6 - Poland
- 4 - Sudetenland
- 3 - Anschluss
- 2 - Rhineland
- Peace treaty given to Germany to signify the end of World War One
- The Great Depression
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