Causes of World War II

Hitler was to blame: He was a Nazi dictator, willing to stop at nothing to gain power. He hated Communism and wanted to stop it by controlling Russia - to do this he would have to start a war. His foreign policy aims were to overturn the Treaty of Versaille, create a Greater Germany and unite all German speaking people and acquire Lebensraum (living space). This would mean he'd have to invade countries - starting a war. He said, in 'Mein Kampf', that the only way to make Germany strong again was to overturn the Versaille Treaty.

The Great Depression: Desperate people turned to extreme dictators like Hitler and Mussolini as they provided solutions. However the League of Nations could not use sanctions or control these dictators. Desperate countries were too preoccupied with their own issues to help the League of Nations - this caused a decline in…