Hitler said that Germany should be treated as an equal to the other European nations. Doc 4: “There is to be no European war...the price of that peace is...the ceding by Czechoslovakia of the Sudetenland territory to Herr Hitler’s Germany.” The Big Four decided to let Germany take over the Sudetenland.
The treaty caused WWII because of the unrealistic and harsh punishment placed on Germany, such as the high amount of reparations placed on the nation, having all of the war guilt forced on to the country, along with the removal of some of their territory and land separating some Germans from the
The Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty that Great Britain, France, the United States, and Germany signed in hopes to end all war. However, the Treaty of Versailles did the opposite and caused WWII by angering Germany and making them pay war reparations. The treaty angered many germans by depriving them of their land. This is shown in Map of Germany in document A, Germany lost parts of Southern Germany, the Polish Corridor, East Prussia, and Northern parts near Denmark. This act prompted Germany to take their land back in means of war.
Kennedy striking a deal with the Russians to avoid what could have been an all-out war between the superpowers. It can be argued that we ultimately caused
The Allied victory in 1945 was not a sure thing. In early 1942, Germany controlled most of continental Europe and its resources. The Third Reich was in full expansion. The Soviet Union was in vast part occupied, and was risking the annihilation. The United States were not adequately armed for war.
This is demonstrated when Winston Churchill states that if the Allied powers had worked together to protect Czechoslovakia, then that could have prevented World War II (document 6). Churchill’s statement shows that collective security is the way to respond to aggression and that appeasement only provokes a war. The war lasted six years with many different battles between the Allies and the Axis’s. Hitler did not only invaded Poland, but from there fought his way through many other parts of the world such as Greece, France, Britain, and the Soviet Union. The quote, “It is us today.
As the First World War came to a close, the creation of the Treaty of Versailles increased tension between the Allied Powers (especially the United States, France, United Kingdom and Italy) and Germany as well as Germany’s government and their own citizens. Germany was harshly punished for their actions in World War 1 and is displayed by their post war effects such as having a failed economy, frail military and a loss in government power. Furthermore, Germany experienced an economic depression where millions of people were unemployed, starved and died. The people of Germany lost confidence in their government and switched to support Hitler. Hitler wanted to restore honor in Germany and invaded Poland which was the cause of the start of World
On June 22nd, 1941, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union under the codename, “Operation Barbarossa”. Operation Barbarossa is the second largest military conflict in the military history. In 1939, Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s dictator, in which they would have no military action for the next ten years. However not even two years later, Hitler ordered to invade the Soviet Union. This invasion was only suppose to last three to six months; instead it lasted for about three years.
This which was a collection of campaigns designed to get rid of the Communist Party, the military and other parts of the Soviet Union that he thought were a threat (“Joseph Stalin.”). During the Great Purge thousands of people were killed or sent to slave labour camps (Joseph Stalin (1879 – 1953.”)). Before World War 2, the, Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a non-aggression pact (“Joseph Stalin.”). Hitler broke this agreement and invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Although Stalin ignored warnings from various sources about the potential invasion (“Joseph Stalin.”), by 1942 Germany was defeated and driven back.
The Treaty of Versailles was a profound humiliation for Germany, and is often perceived as critically influential to the rise of Adolph Hitler into his accepted position of power and
What this means is that Russia and Germany had decided not to fight with each other. Not only did the United States frown upon this act, but also that Stalin chose to put the blame on the fact that the Allies didn't invade a part of Europe "soon enough." (Before 1944). With these discrepancy's, they began to strive for different things. Russia and the United States were clearly not quite
Stalin envisioned the city of Berlin under soviet control but his vision would never come to fruition. This is a great example of the Cold War because of its antagonizing approach. America didn’t want Berlin to turn over to communism and she had too much pride to evacuate her capitalist ideals, so we flew over two hundred thousand flights to hold our ground and our option. No blood shed, but still none than less a battle.
Nevertheless, recent historical research has proven that the treaty was in fact something much more complicated and involved, something that allowed the Non-Soviet Member States the ability to maneuver politically. In fact, many different nations under the traditional Soviet sphere-of-influence where able to express this new found right previously unthinkable under Stalin’s unilateral
The close proximity of the superpowers as well as the failure of adherence to an agreement formed in the Potsdam conference resulted in increased tensions and one of the first direct conflicts (Source G), in this case economic warfare, between the USSR and the USA which ignited the beginning of the Cold
Therefore, in 1912, Germany began preparations to enact major war that could (hopefully) be blamed on Russia. Considering Russia would have completed its military armament and railroads by 1917, Germany realized they needed to strike sooner rather than later – they needed to maximize their own
