Cause Of World War 2 Essay

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Nicholas Agbede
Mrs. Sauter
World History/Block G
16 March 2015

The Cause…
Of World War II.
On September 1939 World War Two began when was declared upon Germany by the Britain and France after Germany's invasion of Poland. The war was very bloody and deadly it was a much gruesome time shared in our world’s history. Every situation whether it’s lovely or bloody always has to have a cause, a contribution of some sort too drive it into its conclusion. This event was World War II which had started in September of 1939 as I have mentioned earlier.
Many historians believed that the battle of World War II came of redemption of World War I. They believe that because of the treaty of Versailles that ended the first World War did not create a bright
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There was unemployment, trades were not being made, people sought to find a new leader that could deal with it. The German, Italian, and Japanese nations all became found to be ruled in a dictatorship. The dictator duty was often performed by military leaders or dictators that were not ordained. Mussolini had come into Italia’s power in 1922, in Germany it was Adolf Hitler the ‘Nazi Party Leader’ in 1933, and for Japan in the early 1930’s military leaders took control. With these leaders in hand they all took a verbal oath and promised to bring the country and lead them back to glory. But instead they set up totalitarian governments, which was a trick to the nations. At first Hitler had aimed Germany for war, while Japan decided to invade China, Mussolini had his troop men conquer Ethiopia. No distraction was brought up to them as in any other nation brought opposition to their ideal plans. Hitler had a plot to take over and rule all of Europe, by beginning to start off by branching out into Austria, and then Czechoslovakia, again with no opposition. In 1939, German troops came in as that was the break of ice. Germany came in and invaded Poland and that’s when the World War had begun. The U.S did enter the war finally on December 1941. The Americans used such weapons such as warplanes, battleships, and obviously guns to match there oppositions. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945 ended the War in Europe once and for

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