World war 2
World War II- the outbreak
World War II, also called the “Hitler’s war” was the cruelest event in the 20th Century. Apart from that, it was a war between ideologies and ambitions. This essay is looking at what caused the outbreak of the war, without discussing the war itself or its outcome. Three types of causes are going to be discussed: deep causes, intermediate causes and precipitating ones. When it comes to the World War II, there are two different places which need to be focused on: The Europe and The Pacific. The World War II meant more than just a war of ideas; it also meant 35-50 million human costs and the use of the new weapons: radar, tanks, planes( Nye and Welch et al., 2011, 121).
Germany after the treaty of Versailles
After the World War I, Germany lost almost everything. They had to disarm, having just 100,000-man-army for internal responsibilities. They were forbidden to possess and use tanks, warplanes, submarines. “The German empire was to be dismembered; the colonies were taken over by the newly formed League of Nations and distributed to Britain and the Dominios, France, Belgium and Japans mandates; In Europe one-eight of German territory was distributed to France and Belgium in the west, Denmark in the north and Poland in the east”. “The final humiliation was the Allied insistence that Germany admit its war guilt formally, in the terms of Treaty; and that having done so the German government should undertake to pay in reparation any sum agreed by her victors” (Overy and Wheatcroft, 2009: p.32).
As a consequence, the germans were not satisfied with the terms given by the Allies and they were searching for destroying the Versailles treaty system, or just exploiting the terms given. Hitler was exactly what they needed: a person who could make Europe and the whole world listen to Germany. “He mobilized a powerful nationalist rebellion against the post-war order, drawing on a rediscovered bitterness towards the victorious Allies,
World War II, also called the “Hitler’s war” was the cruelest event in the 20th Century. Apart from that, it was a war between ideologies and ambitions. This essay is looking at what caused the outbreak of the war, without discussing the war itself or its outcome. Three types of causes are going to be discussed: deep causes, intermediate causes and precipitating ones. When it comes to the World War II, there are two different places which need to be focused on: The Europe and The Pacific. The World War II meant more than just a war of ideas; it also meant 35-50 million human costs and the use of the new weapons: radar, tanks, planes( Nye and Welch et al., 2011, 121).
Germany after the treaty of Versailles
After the World War I, Germany lost almost everything. They had to disarm, having just 100,000-man-army for internal responsibilities. They were forbidden to possess and use tanks, warplanes, submarines. “The German empire was to be dismembered; the colonies were taken over by the newly formed League of Nations and distributed to Britain and the Dominios, France, Belgium and Japans mandates; In Europe one-eight of German territory was distributed to France and Belgium in the west, Denmark in the north and Poland in the east”. “The final humiliation was the Allied insistence that Germany admit its war guilt formally, in the terms of Treaty; and that having done so the German government should undertake to pay in reparation any sum agreed by her victors” (Overy and Wheatcroft, 2009: p.32).
As a consequence, the germans were not satisfied with the terms given by the Allies and they were searching for destroying the Versailles treaty system, or just exploiting the terms given. Hitler was exactly what they needed: a person who could make Europe and the whole world listen to Germany. “He mobilized a powerful nationalist rebellion against the post-war order, drawing on a rediscovered bitterness towards the victorious Allies,
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