Hitlers expansionist policy was one of the major causes of World War 2.

Hitler
wanted to expand Germanys territory across Europe so that Nazis can achieve
power. For example, in 1936, Hitler started moving troops into Rhineland and
remilitarise it. He had broken the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties.
After that, Hitler then went on to invade Czechoslovakia as it consisted a large
number of Germans. After a series of agreements, the whole of Sudetenland was
lost to Germany. Lastly, Hitler invaded Poland which Britain and France agreed to
protect it. This means that Hitlers appetite for greater demand of land kept
increasing and wanted Germany to be a world power so he continued invading
other parts of Europe. This incurred the Britains wrath with Germany invaded
Poland. The last straw broke the camels back when Britain promised to protect
Poland and attack Germany and Hitler went too far bossing his way around
Europe and disobeying all the rules set to subdue Germany. Thus, this led to
WWII.
Another cause of World War 2 is the appeasement policies. One example is the
aspect of rearmament. Hitler started to rearm Germany and staged a massive
military celebrating its rearmament. This was clearly breaking the Treaty of
Versailles but other nations treated rearmament as a form of employment.
Britain even let Germany increase its navy to 35% of their navy. Another example
is the Anschluss with Austria in 1938. Hitler and Austria were allies after signing
the agreement. This means that Germany would rearm and get stronger by
breaking the rules set by the allies without anyone attempting to stop him. Hitler
became more and more aggressive and invaded a huge part of Europe. Hitler
became more daring and confident that no one would stand up to him and thus
decided to launch an attack on Poland. Therefore, the failure in appeasement
policies also caused the WW2 as Hitler was too defiant against other nations.
Another cause of WW2 is the Nazi-Soviet pact. On 24 August 1939, Hitler and
Stalin they signed the deal that they would not attack one another. Stalin was
not convinced that Britain was strong enough to protect the USSR from Hitler and
he had designs on Eastern Poland so they agreed to invade Poland together. The
evidence proved that an imminent war is approaching. Germany had become
stronger with the USSR supporting it in the invasion of countries especially
Poland. Hitler was confident that he could do anything he wants in Europe
without any opposition. These incidents tested the Allies patience and Britain
mad a promise that he would protect Poland. With the USSR obeying Hitler, both
decided to break the rules and go on with the plan. True enough, Britain declared
war on Germany. If only the USSR did not sign the pact and follow Hitler would
not have dared to invade Poland. Thus, the reason for WW2 was because of the
Pact and the pressure of USSR encourage Hitler to push his luck.
The last reason for WW2 is the failure of the League of Nation. It had failed in
trying to stop aggression in 1930. For example, the Manchurian Crisis in 19131933 made the League seem weak and ineffective as no nation was taken
against Japan when Manchuria was invaded. Disarmament was also not achieved
when Germany complained that only it had disarmed. It failed in getting other
members to disarm so Germany left the League to rearm. This shows that the
League was not strong enough to enforce its rules on every nation so not every
nation would follow obediently. They knew that Britain and France would not be
able to stop them so they decided to continue with their plans. If they had
attacked Germany when troops are entering Rhineland, Hitlers plan would have

failed and war would not have happened as Hitler would not have dared to
invade another country. Thus, the failure of LON prompted war as nations could
not be controlled and each of them could easily overthrow the League.