CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II WORLD WAR II STARTED IN SEPTEMBER WHEN BIRITAIN AND ENGLAD WAGES WAR AGAINST GERMANY.

WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY GERMAN INVASION OF POLAND REASONS LEADING TO WAR TREATY OF VERSAILLES: IN 1919 THE IMPORTANT PERSONALITIES OF FRANCE, ENGLAND, US AND ITALY NAMED: CLEMECEAU,LLOYD GEORGE WOODROW AND ORLANDO RESPECTIVELY MET AND DISCUSSED THE AVENGENCE OF WORLD WAR I FROM GERMANY. THEY MADE VARIOUS PROPOSALS SUCH AS WOODROW PRESENTED A TREATY BASED ON HIS 14 POINT PLAN FOPR EUROPE.CLEMENCEAU WANTED EYE

AN FOR EYE KIND OF REVENGE LLYOD GEORGE OF THE US WANTED A SOLUTION THAT COMPROMISED BETWEEN THE TWO PROPOSALS. HENCE CAME THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES INTO THE PICTURE.THIS TREATY WAS UNEXPECTED BY GERMANY AS IT WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO WILSON'S 14 POINTS PLAN. THE MAIN POINTS OF TREATY WERE 1.WAR GUILT :GERMANY SHOULD ACCEPT THE BLAME FOR WAGING WAR. 2.REPARATIONS:GERMANY TO BE PAYING FOR THE DAMAGES 6,600 POUNDS. 3.DISARMAMENT:GERMANY 'S WARFARE TOOLS WERE RESTRICTED.IT WAS ALLOWED TO

HAVE A SMALL ARMY 6 NAVAL SHIPS.NOTHING ELSE NOT EVEN AIRFORCE.THE MILITARY AREA OF RHINELAND HAD TO BE DISARMED 4.TERRITORIAL RESTRCITIONS: GERMANY WAS ALSO DEPRIVED OF LAND AND THE AREA WAS GIVEN TO OTHER STATES.MOREOVER ALLIANCE/UNION WITH AUSTRIA WAS FORBIDDEN. REACTION OF GERMANS THE GERMANS WERE VERY UNSATISFIED AND UNHAPPY WITH THE TREATY.FOR THEM IT WAS A HUGE PUNISHMENT. IN 1920 THERE WAS NOT MUCH ECONOMIC GROWTH IN GERMANY AND PEOPLE WERE POOR.MARKET SOLD FOOD AND BASIC NECESITIES ART HIGH PRICES.SO THEY WERE

UNABLE TO PAY FOR THE DAMAGES. IN RESPONSE TO THE TREATY THE NATION DISPLEASED AND WANTED TO ELECT SOMEBODY WHO WOULD NOT BEND DOWN TO THE CLAUSES.ADOLPH HITLER WAS ELECTED . RISE OF HITLER ADOLPH HITLER CAME INTO POWER IN 1933.FROM THE HE CAME,HE STARTED TO FORM A SECRET ARMY WITH WEAPONS,HENCE DISARMAMENT WAS DISCARDED. HE MADE A LARGE ARMY,AN AIRFORCE EVEN INTRODUCED MANDATORY MILITARY SERVICE. BRITAIN AND FRANCE DIDNOT OBJECT TO HIS SECRET OPERATIONS BECAUSE THEY WERE AFARID OF THE COMMUNISM SPREAD IN EUROPE.IN

THEIR MINDS GERMANY COULD STOP COMMUNISM IN WEST. ALLIANCES OF GERMANY IN 1936 HITLER MOVED THE ARMY INTO RHINELAND.BRITAIN AND FRANCE AGAIN DIDNOT OBJECT AS THEY WERE NOT A POSITION OF WARFARE. IN 1936 HITLER ALSO MADE ALLAIANCES 1.ROME-BERLIN AXIS PACT ALLAINCE OF GERMANY WITH ITALY 2.ANTI-COMITERN PACT ALLAINCE GERMANY OF GERMANY WITH JAPAN ANCHLUSS(AUSTRIAN UNION) HITLER THEN ENTERED HIS FORCES IN AUSTRIA 1938.THE AUSTRIAN'S WERE ASKED TO WHETHER THEY WANT TO

JOIN GERMANY OR NOT.THE RESULTS OF VOTES WERE PRE-PLANNED SHOWING 99% OF PEOPLE SAID YES TO UNION. UPON THE OBJECTION OF BRITAIN AND FRANCE HITLER PROMISED TO KEEP HIS INVASION LIMITED TO AUSTRIA . INVASIONS BY HITLER HITLER DIDNOT ABIDE BY HIS PROMISE.HE WANTED TO TAKE OVER CZECHSLOVAKIA'S SUDETELAND AS WELL.IN 1938 BRITAIN 'S PRIME MINISTER MET WITH HITLER THRICE TO STOP ANY FIRTHER STEPS LEADING TO WAR. UNFAIR ACTIONS OF HITLER THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT CALLED THE MUNICH AGREEMENT WHICH STATED THAT ONBLY SUDETENLAND WOULD BE GIVEN TO GERMANY,THE

REST OF CZECHOSLOVAKAI WOULD REMAIN AS IT WAS.BUT HITLER AGAIN BROKE THE AGREEMENT AND INVADED THE WHOLE OF CZECHSLOVAKIA IN 1939. INVASION OF POLAND BRIATAIN AND GFRANCE WERE AGAIN SILETN ON THE ISSUE OF INVASIONS,OBVIOUSLY TO PREVENT WAR.THE APPARENT NEXT TARGET WAS POLAND.THIS TIME HITLER WAS THREATENED OF MILITARY ACTION IF POLAND SUFFERED.HTILER DID NOT HEED TO THEIR WARNING AND INVADED POLAND IN 1939 TOO. GERMANY 'S HISTORY BALCKENED BY HITLER SINCE HITLER'S REIGN,GERMANY HAD BECOME NOTOTRIOUS OF BREAKING TREATIES INFACT TRUST OF BRITAIN

,FRANCE AND THE WHOLE EUROPE. BRITAIN AND FRANCE ALSO SOUGHT COMPROMISE FOR DISPUTES TO AVOID WAR AT ALL COSTS.THEY WERE UNABLE TO DEFEAT GERMANY SO THEY APPROACH THE ISSUES WITH DIPLOMACY.FROM 1936 HITLER HAD BROKEN TREATIES ,MADE ALLIES AND INVADED LAND .IN 1937 BRITAIN PRIME MINISTER NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN, WAS ELECTED .HE THOUGHT THAT FOLLOWING HITLER'S DEMAND WOULD PREVENT WAR. THE MUNICH AGREEMENT WAS ALSO BROKEN BY HITLER WHO WAS SIGNED IN THE PRESENCE OF LEADERS OF GERMANY,BRITAIN,FRANCE AND ITALY. WHEN HITLER ATTACKED POLAND IT WAS TOO MUCH TO HANDLE BY

EUROPE AND TEHY RESORTED TO WAR LEAGUE OF NATIONS LEAGUE OF NATIONS WAS FORMED IN 1919 WITH THE PURPOSE OF CREATING WORLD PEACE AND HARMONY.IT FAILED TO SOLVE WARS AND DISPUTES AND THUS FAILED IN ITSELF. WHY?? 1. ALL COUNTRIES DID NOT JOIN LEAGUE OF NATIONS E.G GERMANY WAS BANNED FROM JOINING AS A PENALTY FOR WORLD WAR I.RUSSIA WAS UNDER THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM SO IT WAS ASLO BANNED FROM JOINING. 2.THE LEAGUE WAS POWERLESS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF

1920'S,COUNTRIES DID NOT WANT TO CUT TRADE TIES WITH OTHER COUNTRIES WHEN THE LEAGUE OF NATION WANTED THEM TO DO SO. 3.THE LEAGUE HAD NO ARMY OF ITS OWN THE LEAGUE WANTED ARMED FORCES FRO MTHE MEMBERS WHO WERE TERRIFIED OF SEVERING THEIR TIES WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AND DIDNOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED. 4.THE LEAGUE WAS NOT ABLE TO ACT SWIFTLY. THE LEAGUE DID NOT SET DOW NAND DISCUSSED RIGHT THERE WHEN ANY ISSUE ARISED.THEY HAD A FEW MEETING IN A YEAR.AND SO THEIR DECISIONS,ACTIONS WERE NOT OF VERY MUCH HELP. HENCE GERMANY'S DARK HISTORY OF

INVASIONS ENDED WITH WORLD WAR II