WHAT CAUSED WORLD WAR 2

This second global conflict resulted from the rise of regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan, a phenomenon stemming in part from the Great Depression that swept over the world in the early 1930s and from the conditions created by the peace settlements.

After World War I, defeated Germany, disappointed Italy, and ambitious Japan were anxious to regain or increase their power; all three eventually adopted forms of dictatorship that made the state supreme and called for expansion at the expense of neighboring countries

The League of Nations (a former international organization) failed at stopping the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1931, which caused a treaty and eventually led hitler to power, and he was of course the main contributor towards enemy forces.

In 1936 Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland. Benito Mussolini conquered Ethiopia for Italy; and from 1936 to 1939 the Spanish civil war raged, with Germany and Italy helping the forces of Francisco Franco to victory. In Mar., 1938, Germany annexed Austria, and in Sept., 1938, the British and French policy of appeasement toward the Axis reached its peak with the sacrifice of much of Czechoslovakia to Germany in the Munich Pact.

World War II began on Sept. 1, 1939, when Germany, without a declaration of war, invaded Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany on Sept. 3, and all the members of the Commonwealth of Nations, except Ireland, rapidly followed suit. Shortly after that the U.S.S.R. joined too. The fighting began in Poland, and it was brief.

THIS IS WHEN THE GERMANS INVADED POLAND, A KEY REASON FOR THE WAR

This was the main cause America got involved in the war, it was the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this is a picture of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania in the aftermath and destruction.

OTHER REASONS FOR THE WAR

• Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pacts
• The Rome-Berlin Axis & the nazi annexation of the sudentenland
• Chamberlain’s appeasement policy
• The Anschluss of Germany with Austria
• The Nazi soviet pact & the invasion of Poland