What were five causes of world war two?

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Answer by Sophie
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Long term a. The harshness of the Treaty of Versailles (28th June, 1919) on Germany: - Land losses - Reparations - War Guilt b. The failure of the League of the Nations to: - Keep peace - Bring about disarmament Short term a. Hitler��s aggression: - His aims - His actions b. The aggression of the other powers: - Italy - Abyssinia (1935), Rome-Berlin Axis, Anti-Commintern Pact, Albania - Japan -Manchuria (1931), Anti-Commintern Pact (November, 1937) - Russia - Nazi-Soviet Pact, Invasion of Poland c. The democracies were too passive - USA - isolation - France- would not do anything without Britain��s support - Britain- sympathetic towards Germany, e.g. Anglo-German Naval Treaty (1935) and later appeased her (May/June 1937 �V March 1939) Immediate a. German invasion of Poland (1st September, 1939)

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World War Two was not caused solely by short term events in the 1930's such as Austria and Czechoslovakia. The anger and resentment that built up in Nazi Germany - and which was played on by Hitler during his rise to power and when he became Chancellor in January 1933 - also had long term causes that went back to the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Patriotic Germans had never forgotten their nation's treatment in Paris in that year. The League had some successes in this decade (the Aaland Islands, as an example) but the weaknesses of the League had also been cruelly exposed on a number of occasions when an aggressor nation successfully used force to get what it wanted and the League could do nothing. This process set the mould for the 1930�s and any would-be dictator would have been very well aware that the League did not have the ability to enforce its decisions as it lacked an army. Those nations that were best equipped to provide the League with a military force (Britain and France) were also not prepared to do so for domestic reasons and the aftermath of the Great War in which so many were killed or wounded. From a political point of view, the British and French publics would not have tolerated a military involvement in an area of Europe that no-one had heard of. Politicians were responsive to the attitudes of the voters and neither Britain nor France were prepared to militarily support the League in the 1920�s - despite being the strongest nations in the League. However, the apparent stability in Europe after 1925 and its apparent prosperity, meant that conflicts rarely occurred from 1925 to 1929. In fact, Europe could have been confident in assuming peace would last as two treaties were signed that seemed to indicate that a new era of peace and toleration had been ushered in. The Locarno Treaties were signed in December 1925. The major politicians of Europe met in neutral Switzerland. The following was agreed to : France, Germany and Belgium agreed to accept their borders as were stated in the Treaty of Versailles. France and Belgium would never repeat an invasion of the Ruhr and Germany would never attack Belgium or France again. Britain and Italy agreed to police this part of the treaties. Germany also accepted that the Rhineland must remain demilitarised. In other treaties, France promised to protect Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia if Germany attacked any one of them. Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia all agreed that they would never fight if they had an argument between themselves - they would allow the League to sort out the problem. However, nationalists in Germany were furious with their government for signing these treaties. By signing, the German government effectively agreed that it accepted the terms of the Versailles Treaty of 1919. This to the nationalists bordered on treason and was totally unacceptable. Their claims of treason went unheard as Weimar Germany was experiencing an economic growth and the hard times of 1919 to 1924 were forgotten. Moderate politicians were the order of the day in Germany and the extreme nationalists such as the Nazi Party faded into the background. The success of these moderate politicians was emphasised when France backed Germany�s right to join the League of Nations which Germany duly did in 1926. The other major treaty which seemed to herald in an era of world peace was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. This pact was signed by 65 countries. All 65 nations agreed never to use war again as a way of solving disputes. Therefore, Europe was effectively lulled into a false sense of security by 1929 as the politicians of Europe had made it plain that war was no longer an option in solving disputes and that previous enemies were now friends. This new Europe relied on nations being at peace and harmony with one another. The stability of Germany was shattered by the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and the nationalists who had spent 1925 to 1929 in relative obscurity, rose to the political surface once again. They had no intention of accepting either Versailles or the Locarno treaties and the League�s weaknesses in this decade had also become apparent. The League could only function successfully, if the politicians of Europe allowed it to do so. Hitler and the Nazis were never going to give the League a chance once they had gained power.

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What were five causes of world war two?

Answer by Kick Butt
Submitted on 2/9/2004
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Kick Butt

Answer by Prince
Submitted on 2/18/2004
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Germany broke the Treaty of Versailles.

Answer by libber
Submitted on 3/3/2004
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because hitler wanted to eventually take over the world

Answer by anonymous
Submitted on 3/5/2004
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hitler'saggression, appeasement from britain and france, the "sleeping superpowers", the failure of the league of nations, the depression,

Answer by hambug
Submitted on 3/8/2004
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to kill us all hes a robot i tells ya!

Answer by Kayla
Submitted on 3/8/2004
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Germany was resentful for the treatment they received when the Treaty of Versailes took place.

Answer by phat boy
Submitted on 3/11/2004
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hitler wanted to take over

Answer by elout
Submitted on 3/21/2004
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Germany was very poor after falling into great debt after world war one, and needed someone or something to blame. Along came Hitler and said "look at the Jews, they're rich, they have money, why them and not us, we are better than them, they're sub -human." Having gotten many followers, (the Nazis) he decided that if Germany was better than the rest of the world, they could go and take over other countries, because the people of those country's were not worthy of the land. They invaded Belgium, and as Britain had a deal with lots of small countries, that if anyone ever invaded them, then they would stick up for each other, Britain invaded Germany, hence the second world war began...

Answer by Razic
Submitted on 3/25/2004
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He had sex with the english queen and then she dumped him to be with a hermit who lives in a shoe in CANADA he was devistated and attacked every1 in a jealous frenzy.:);) :o :D

Answer by Raul .M. D
Submitted on 4/7/2004
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i think that germany was still upset with the problems that world war 1 had and the end of the war which lelf thier country in pretty bad shape this is what think is one of the causes of world war2

Answer by blade
Submitted on 4/19/2004
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hitler breaking the treaty versailess,the nazi soviet pact, hitler invading poland, the leauge failing to keep the peace, hitler rearming,britains appeasment and hitler allying with mussolini and japan

Answer by guy
Submitted on 4/19/2004
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i like cheese

Answer by Emma C
Submitted on 4/20/2004
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Because hitler loved food just like me, mmmmmmmmm food, i want to marry it, give it to me.

Answer by carrie
Submitted on 4/20/2004
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because hitler was a jew and he wanted to be one of a kind so he killed all of the other jewish people.

Answer by shawn
Submitted on 4/30/2004
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hitler and the rest of his crew were just dog face monsters and loved eating. wondering what else he loved eating. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha i know you guys love that hunh what you got to say about that he is a dog face monkey who swings off of a tree and their nothing he can do about. so i leaving you with this on thought or question rather. what do you think hitler loved eating and why di he love eating it so damn much.

Answer by Adolph
Submitted on 5/27/2004
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I, ADOPLH HITLER, was gay, and i liked men. and i wanted to suck every cock in the world. So naturally, i wanted to take over the world. i failed, and now i am sucking Bobs nob in jail.

Answer by you're mom
Submitted on 10/12/2004
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Adolf hitler was friends with micheal jackson and melestered little boys and to get back at Madonna, he tried to stop cabolla by destroying the world. his real name was O.J. Simpson.

Answer by lil' azn chick^_^
Submitted on 10/27/2004
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you stupid people dont even know!!!god damm it!!!!...................it's because hitler want germany to gain pride and be power ful soo.....he invaded polland and then on......!!!! duh!!! how simple was that! ahahahahahhaha.......................j/k

Answer by jo
Submitted on 4/21/2004
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he was homeless

Answer by zachary w
Submitted on 4/21/2004
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becuse hitler had very bad cases of diareahh.... and all the other countries would poke fun at this... and hitler... hitler was ashemed of his business. belgium poked the most fun at poor hitler, so in a rage of fury hitler took a dump.. then invaded belgium, then poland.... and gave everyone malaria... or something thaty makes them go diareahh... and then laughed at the all...... then u.s. took a dump on hitler and the war was over... the end

Answer by poop
Submitted on 4/21/2004
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u smell

Answer by big bad wolf
Submitted on 4/22/2004
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b/c Hitler was a crazy mofo. and he liked men

Answer by pinki
Submitted on 4/22/2004
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they wanted to take over the world.hitler wanted to punish the jews for killing the lord.he was gay

Answer by mango chutney
Submitted on 4/27/2004
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i eat blue monkies

Answer by louie
Submitted on 5/13/2004
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u all r bums. the war started because germany broke the treaty, the depressionm, andf japanese wanyed power

Answer by cheese monkey
Submitted on 5/20/2004
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becuase hitler was ill, and was sick all over the world, and then all of the jews were killed by flesh eating voles and hamsters because they eat all of the sick and grew to 16 times their normal size. In other words..........................................................................................................everyone blame the crazy ciber freaks who live in their parents cellar and still have afros and platform shoes with fish in them

Answer by what ?
Submitted on 6/10/2004
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purple?.... oh what?

Answer by ASLILRI
Submitted on 6/21/2004
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HE'ZZWOZZ A HUNGRRY N WEIRDDD

Answer by chapin
Submitted on 10/28/2004
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he had a little mustache

Answer by Christy
Submitted on 10/30/2004
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Hitler broke the terms of the treaty of versailles(more than once, the invasion of Manchura, the great depression of the thirties, the demilitariasation of the Rhineland, the invasion of Poland, the invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Sudetenland crisis.

Answer by T Man
Submitted on 11/4/2004
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you are all wrong it was because the economy, nationalism, and the world war I

Answer by BOUNCYBALL
Submitted on 11/9/2004
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HITLER LOAFED JEWS AND KILLED THEM HE WAS A SAD MAN

Answer by fosantay
Submitted on 11/30/2004
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Hitler was a horrible man and I don't like him.

Answer by Higly Educated Girl
Submitted on 12/2/2004
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At the end of the war when all of the Jews had been displaced, America but her big nose in. The Jews cried 'homeland....Bible....' The Americans dumped them in Palestine and now the Jews are killing Palestinians saying that God gave them that land. If God flippin well gave you that land the WHY THE HELL WERE U IN GERMANY! Support the plight of the Palestinian peolpe, America is the true terrorist!

Answer by dodo
Submitted on 12/4/2004
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hitler was weird and the jews were gay

Answer by geed up, rollin dat weed up
Submitted on 12/6/2004
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hitler wanted to control europ, wolrd. nazi germany broke the treaty of versailles. and i also think that britain had sumthin against the germans. just a thought...

Answer by Stev
Submitted on 12/13/2004
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Well Hitler was a Jew because his grandmother was raped by a Jew. After this Hitler became angry hating other Jews for what happend to his grand mother. He tried to kill all the other jews. Also Germany was angry not having as much land and facing defeat from the First World War so Germany bagan to invade. England began to invade Germany for what they had done.

Answer by Mufasa Alfredo Girl
Submitted on 12/14/2004
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It was because of the British and other "Allies" were terrified of Hilter taking over their mad cow diseased lands. It was also because of the attack on Pearl Harbor ( the japanese were in the axis group with Hilter) and that the fear of Hilter taking over the dominate world.