Major Cause of WWII

Major Causes

• Treaty of Versailles
• Adolf Hitler and The Nazi Party
• Japanese Expansion
• Appeasement

The Treaty of Versailles

• It was unbalanced, which was what forced a crippling peace on Germany to end WW1
• Germany wasn't ready to end war in 1929 and couldn't end it without violating the rules of the treaty
• The appeasement policy(allowed Germany to reconstruct)is a reason Germany was in the treaty

The Treaty of Versailles

• The major elements of the system(Germany and Russia) were ignored,so it became unbalanced which made it function badly

Treaty of
Versailles

Adolf Hitler & The Nazi Party

• Germans were desperate for someone to turn around their economy and restore pride.
• In 1934, Hitler was proclaimed the leader and became dictator of Germany.
• Hitler started World War II by invading Poland and then invading many other European countries.

Adolph Hitler & The Nazi Party

• Extermination of the Jewish people, other races, and handicapped people all occurred in the Holocaust.
• His Reign ended in 1945 when Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces, then followed by the double suicide of him and his wife Eva on April 30th 1945. Adolf shot himself while Eva took Cyanide

Adolph Hitler & The Nazi Party

• Extermination of the Jewish people, other races, and handicapped people all occurred in the Holocaust.
• His Reign ended in 1945 when Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces, then followed by the double suicide of him and his wife Eva on April 30th 1945. Adolf shot himself while Eva took Cyanide

Adolf Hitler
& the Nazi Party

Japanese Expansion

• Before WW2 Japan was quickly growing, but they did not have the space or resources to sustain their growing country and began to look for ways to sustain their country.

Japanese Expansion

• In order to gain more land and natural resources that they needed, Japan made a plan to invade weaker neighbors including Manchuria and China.

Japanese
Expansion

Appeasement

• Appeasement is the policy of meeting demands in order to avoid conflict.
• It first was associated with Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
• Before WWII, Britain and France both underestimated Adolf Hitler in his lust for conquest.

Appeasement

• In 1938, Hitler got the Sudeten Nazis to cause trouble, then he demanded union. On September 29th, Britain and France gave the Sudetenland to Germany. They gave the bully what he wanted. This was appeasement
• People eventually realized that Appeasement would not stop Hitler and that the war was unavoidable.

Appeasement