What caused the Second World War.

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What caused the Second World War

The Second World War began twenty years after the treaty of Versailles was signed. This essay will discuss the reasons why this was the case and why the treaty of Versailles did not bring lasting peace.

Hitler's actions between 1933-1939 were one of the major causes world war two. Firstly Hitler started to rearm Germanys Army in secret as the treaty of Versailles said that he was not allowed to do that. Hitler trained ordinary people for a year and then released them and another group of people were brought in to take their place. Hitler thought that if there was going to be a war that every one in Germany could help because they had been trained and would be ready to fight. Secondly in 1934 Hitler tried to take control of Austria because that was Hitler's birthplace. Hitler got some of his Austrian Nazis to go to the chancellor of Austria and kill him. The chancellor killed himself he jumped out of a window from a third story building and landed on his head. But as Hitler tried to take over Austria over Italian leader Mussolini said no he thought that once Hitler had taken over Austria his next target would be Italy. So Mussolini said that if Hitler tried to take control of Austria he would march his soldiers and weapons to fight Hitler. Hitler did not want to fight the Italians because he was not strong enough yet. In 1936 Hitler got more daring and sent some troops in to the Rhineland the treaty of Versailles said that he was not suppose to march any troops in to this land because France were scared of an attack. But no one stopped him. Also in 1936 it was the Spanish civil war, this war was between the Communists and the fascists of cause Hitler to be on the side of the fascists Hitler used this as a testing ground for his new army his new weapons and to see if his new army were up to it. Next in 1938 Hitler finally managed to take control as now that him and Mussolini were now could friends but Hitler took a different approach. He organised a vote the final outcome was Nazis 99. 97% this was obviously set up. Also in 1938 Hitler made the Munich agreement this gave Hitler a bit of Czechoslovakia called the Sudatenland. Over 10 million people lived that spoke German so Hitler that that a German speaking person should live in Germany. Britain said that that would be the last thing that he should have done and that Hitler should not do any thing else as Hitler was beginning to get more power. Hitler agreed that this would be the last thing that he did. But he lied. In 1939 Hitler went further and marketing his troops in to go rest of Czechoslovakia and took over. Also in 1939 Hitler was not ready for a full-scale war so he made an agreement with Russia called the Nazi Soviet pact. Everyone thought that this was mad that Hitler was making an agreement with the Communist Russia and the fascists Germans but secretly each of them had decided to divide Poland in to two parts. Britain did not like this they said to Poland that if the Germans invaded Poland that they would step in and help them. Again in 1939 Hitler matched in to Poland and Chamberlain sent a telegram to Germany saying that if they did not pull out of Poland they would be that war. But nothing happened for that least six months after.
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Some people say that Britain was to Blame for the start of world war two. When Britain gave Germany bit by bit this is called appeasement Britain did this in order to stop a war also they tried to stop the war because the British Empire wouldn't help them to fight the war, its was nothing to do with Britain, Germans were treated badly after the first world war, they thought that Hitler would soon stop making demands, Britain were scared of the USSR, Britain were scared of war, the British army were not ready for war and ...

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