The Failure Of The Weimar Republic

World War II is known to be one of the largest and bloodiest conflicts in world history. The reason being that many countries got involved and sent their troops to fight, but there is no precise factor to why this war started as it was the combination of major and minor events. The formal beginning of it is well known to be the episode in which Germany invaded Poland in 1939, but for that to happen, there had to be someone who could act as the catalyst and lite the match that was crucial, which was Adolf Hitler. After World War I, Germany was blamed for all the damage that other countries suffered and was punished. The treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 and it imposed economic, military, and territorial losses for Germany. In response to this punishment, the Weimar Republic
Hitler then used Germany's post war crisis and citizens’ disatisfaction as a way to obtain popularity. Once in power, Hitler started acting in aggressive and imperialistic ways. The failure of the League of Nations, at this point, made Hitler's plans to build a military and invade other countries stronger, since there was no punishment being applied. The Munich Agreement of 1938 was a failed attempt to appease Hitler. This negotiation,on the contrary, encouraged Hitler's aggressions as he was annexing more land to his territory without any interventions. Therefore, even though the Weimar Republic, the crisis in the German economy, the failure of the League of Nations, the treaty of Versailles and the Munich agreement were factors that influenced the outbreak of World War II, Adolf Hitler was the one that put them all together to create the spark for this international conflict. With respect to examination, the author will explain how the Versailles treaty and economic dissatisfactions led toward the unpopular republic, which catapulted Hitler into