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World War Two was the most destructive war in history. Many cities were destroyed, by air raiders, and the atom bomb was dropped on Japan, and six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Over 50 million soldiers and civilians died. It began when Nazi Germans unleashed ferocious attacks across Europe, it spread to the Soviet Union, China, Japan, and the United states. However the war that consumed half the world started with a peace agreement.
Adolf Hitler, (leader of the Nazi party), signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan, to further ambitions of world domination, after re-arming the nation. At the end of World War One, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Palace of Versailles in 1919. The Treaty of Versailles codified peace terms between the victorious Allies and Germany. Hitler had nothing to do with the Treaty of Versailles, but blamed it for Germany's suffering after the war. (“title”)
The Treaty of Versailles held harsh penalties against the Germans, that include loss of territory, massive reparations payments, and demilitarization. The Germans didn't just get harsh penalties, but they were humiliated while failing to resolve the …show more content…

This group of nations was known as the Axis powers. These two major groups of the nation fought World War Two. On the 15th of October in 1936, a friendship treaty that formed what was called Rome-German Axis by Germany and Italy. This Alliance started to form in 1936. Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, used the term Axis to refer to their alliance after this treaty. The Anti-Comintern Pact was then signed November 25, 1936, by Japan, and Germany. The Anti-comintern Pact was a treaty against communism. On May 22,1939 an even stronger treaty was signed called Pact of Steel, which was signed between Germany and Italy. Later this treaty was called the Tripartite Pact. Japan then signed it on September 27, 1940. Now the three main Axis were allies in the

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Following the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles was ratified in 1919 with the goal of bringing a lasting peace in Europe between the Allied powers and Germany. However, its unpopular and one-sided declarations, combined with the harsh reparations imposed on the defeated nations, would ultimately lead to the outbreak of World War II less than two decades later. The treaty was a harsh punishment on Germany forcing them to set limits on their military capabilities and make reparation payments. The Treaty of Versailles did not adequately address the grievances of the German people, which ultimately led to a resurgence of nationalism, militarism, and resentment of the Allies, contributing to the outbreak of World War II. France, England,

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Many believe that the Treaty of Versailles was one of the most unfair armistices because they impaled war-guilt onto Germany and the rest of the Central Powers by forcing them to accept harsh punishments, one of them being the loss of their territory. In Document A we can see a map showing places that Germany owned before and after the war and places they had to demilitarize. We see how they lost the Polish Corridor, which separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany. They also lost Alsace-Lorraine which was a coal-producing area, this reduced

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