Hitler had been planning for a war long before he rose to power with a master plan for the domination of Europe outlined in his book Mein Kampf (1925) and Zwietes Buch (1928).
His plans were to unite Germans under one empire, conquer Eastern Europe, end the Treaty of Versailles, create a national army, and exclude Jews from society, which were all causes for war.
Hitler’s intentions were demonstrated in the Hossbach Memorandum, but some claim, including James Sheehan, that it was a strategy to pick out people who disagreed with his policies, which showed he had war in mind and needed reinforcement from his military officials, as the unsupportive ones were fired only a few months later.
Hitler’s creation of an aggressive, militarized nation could only be stopped by war, which Churchill argued Germany’s rearming in …show more content…
4) What were the effects of WWII on international relations?
WWII caused political, economic, and military division internationally.
Power was shifted away from weakened Britain and France and toward the rising powers of the USSR and United States, who came into conflict over post-war settlements, developing into the Cold War as tensions rose.
The conflict between the USSR and USA caused the division of Eastern and Western Europe, as well as economically dividing the region and ending trade.
International relations were torn between the pull of Communism from the USSR and Capitalism from Western Europe and the United States.
The USA provided economic aid to weaker countries in order to prevent the spread of Communism from the USSR through the Marshall Plan of 1948, allowing the countries to recover economically and
His plans were to unite Germans under one empire, conquer Eastern Europe, end the Treaty of Versailles, create a national army, and exclude Jews from society, which were all causes for war.
Hitler’s intentions were demonstrated in the Hossbach Memorandum, but some claim, including James Sheehan, that it was a strategy to pick out people who disagreed with his policies, which showed he had war in mind and needed reinforcement from his military officials, as the unsupportive ones were fired only a few months later.
Hitler’s creation of an aggressive, militarized nation could only be stopped by war, which Churchill argued Germany’s rearming in …show more content…
4) What were the effects of WWII on international relations?
WWII caused political, economic, and military division internationally.
Power was shifted away from weakened Britain and France and toward the rising powers of the USSR and United States, who came into conflict over post-war settlements, developing into the Cold War as tensions rose.
The conflict between the USSR and USA caused the division of Eastern and Western Europe, as well as economically dividing the region and ending trade.
International relations were torn between the pull of Communism from the USSR and Capitalism from Western Europe and the United States.
The USA provided economic aid to weaker countries in order to prevent the spread of Communism from the USSR through the Marshall Plan of 1948, allowing the countries to recover economically and