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Leading Events Leading Up To World War II

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The first leading event that leads up to the WWII was the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. The terms of the Treaty of Versailles were extremely harsh towards Germany who were blamed for the war. In addition, France and Britain wanted to take revenge to the Germans, and that caused a lot of anger and dissatisfaction for the Germans. Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) that also fought the WWI was really unsatisfied about it, so he decided to do something about it. The following events were when Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) and Hirohito established themselves as Dictators and Emperor of their country (Italy, USSR, and Japan), later Hitler from Germany will become legally the Chancellor of Germany. Italy, Japan, and Germany had a great …show more content…

Even before Hitler declared that the win was about to become “Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history!” (Hitler, May 1940). France was defeated by Germany, with help of Mussolini (Italy). Leaving Britain alone against the Germans. Britain fought against Germany and the powerful air force knowing as the Luftwaffe. Britain kept fighting Hitler air forces with Britain's air force and that brought Hitler to backup a little, making him conquer other nations like North Africa. After conquering France and kept the British war in action, Hitler turned his sights to the Soviet Union. Where the targets of his anger lived. Jews, Slavs, and Bolsheviks were the majority of people in the Soviet Union. The Dictator calls the invasion the Operation Barbarossa (June 1940). "the German military assembled the largest and most powerful invasion force in history, attacking with 3.6 million soldiers, thirty-seven hundred tanks, and twenty-five hundred planes. Military contingents from Italy, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, and Finland" (Operation Barbarossa, 1941) The largest military force was unbeatable by man, however, Hitler neglected and did not think about the heavy winter that was about to hit the troops. Germany, without enough equipment and supplies to support the winter suffer the consequence of that mistake and ended up losing a lot of their military power. In December of 1941, the greatest military power sent from Hitler got defeated by the winter and the Red Army from the Soviet

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Adolf Hitler, who was the head commander of Germany, wanted to rule Europe and its entirety. Bomb after bomb he tried to take out the British air force ordering his air force commanders to keep destroying them. Following under the lead of Hitler were three main

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The Battle of Britain was struggling with hard times which meant that the British Royal Air force erupted over Britain between July and October of 1940. The battle happened above Britain. The battle, which was the first major military campaign in history to be fought completely in the air (-www.History.com). Germany wanted to control the flying space in the sky. Many months later, the battle ended with the British Empire winning, and this great victory protected them from the invading Germans who

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Britain Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had all but forfeited the European mainland to Nazi Germany. Eventually, Hitler continued to take over land and grow his popularity in Germany as well as his power. For Example, Hitler became Führer of Germany after German President Hindenburg dies on August 2 1934. (HistoryPlace.com) After years of Hitler’s growth as a dictator in Germany, the idea of expansionism was a recurring idea.

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Closer to the end war end, Turkey cut off all trading with Germany and joined the allies. Because these countries stayed neutral during the war instead of joining the Axis powers, they saved the U.S a great deal of time, and trouble getting to Germany and demolishing the rule of

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Hitler wanted power and had a vision of uniting all German language nations into one country. German invasion of Poland was the start of WW2 where lives will be lost and major destruction in every European country. Therefore, there is a timeline to help understand how it began

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Hitler set his sights on Russia, generally as Napoleon did. Pretty much as Napoleon fizzled, Hitler would, as well, and this is to a great extent on account of Hitler 's presumptuousness in his own particular methodologies and in addition his inability to adhere to a solitary arrangement of assault. Hitler 's commanders, who were really military specialists while Hitler was a legislator, best case scenario, needed to go straight to Moscow in light of the fact that they knew Stalin would submit every one of his powers to ensuring it, along these lines making it simple to overcome the Red Army; Hitler, be that as it may, framed an alternate arrangement which permitted the Russians breathing

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The defeat of the Germans by the Soviet forces was a major turning point in World War Two. Launching Operation Barbarossa is believed to be Hitler’s biggest mistake, since it placed Germany in a position where they would have to fight a two front war. Hitler had invested tremendous amounts of energy into a battle that could not be fought. He had failed to account for the conditions of the Russian winter that his troops would have to fight in, and the difficulties this would place for his operation. Hitler had many successes in acquiring land prior to this military operation against the Soviets, and upon losing this battle it resulted in a downward spiral of losses for the Germans.

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After analysing all of the evidence from all of the historians, I have come to the conclusion that the preeminent cause of WWII was Adolf Hitler. Using the primary evidence from the historians that stated, “ On January 30, 1933, just 14 years after those in Versailles gathered to create a new peaceful order, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of the wealthiest, most populous, and most militarist nation in Europe. The rest, as they say, is history.” The reason I have come to this conclusion is because of the aggressive territorial expansion of Nazi Germany while under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. Hitlers aggressive policy led to the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, and the invasion of Poland.

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Also during this, Germany quitted the League of Nations and violated the Treaty of Versailles. Then the invasion of Poland occurred. The invasion of Poland in 1939 started World War II. Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand were the first to declare war on Germany. Britain was the first to launch an air attack on Germany.

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