causes of world war 2

  • Militarism

    Militarism
    Well, Nazi Germany built there military and procceded to invade Poland, Which no one did anything about. Leading to there invasion of Europe. Mussolini joined them in the effort by assisting and also ignoring the "Final Solution".
  • U.S. isolationism

    U.S. isolationism
    U.S. isolationism between the world wars was a bipartisan policy, drawing support from across the social and political spectrum. Its fundamental postulate was not absolute withdrawal behind the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but a belief that the United States should retain the independence in foreign policy that had been its norm until 1917.
  • Anti-communism

    Anti-communism
    In 1950, fewer than 50,000 Americans out of a total US population of 150 million were members of the Communist Party. Yet in the late 1940s and early 1950s, American fears of internal communist subversion reached a nearly hysterical pitch.
  • Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party

    Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party
    hitler gained power. he started to take over everythig. people feared him. his army started to form and get bigger and bigger. they was only in his army because the didnt want him to hurt them also
  • treaty of versailles

    treaty of versailles
    started because grmany lost ww1 the winning nations drafted this treaty to address issues such as territorail. this treaty punished germany. germany was forced to accept all the blame for the war and pay millions in reparations to poritain. and france. italy was disappointed that it was senied terriotry promised by britain and france
  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    everything failed. people lost they jobs and homes. the stock market crashed. the way it started is cause every one was only paying a litle on the stocks they had. people was spending money that was not there thats the start if the great depression.
  • the rise of fascism

    the rise of fascism
    it glorififed the state. only had one leader. everyone was was controled by the goverment. no opposition or peotests are tolerated. prorpaganda and censorship are widely practiced
  • appeasement

    appeasement
    It allowed Hitler to take what he wanted without a fight, which obviously enboldened him to demand more. Why would one stop demanding AT ANY POINT IN TIME when demanding has proven to be so effectively rewarding in the past? It created a false sense of security in those that would oppose him, thus allowing him to catch Britain and others unaware.
    t, no doubt, enboldened Japan to continue it's expansionism as well as they considered how effective it was serving Hitle
  • day world war 2 began

    day world war 2 began
    people got tired and faught
  • Japanese expansionism

    Japanese expansionism
    japan wanted to spread communism and wanted to conquer some ares like China. Hitler agreed to help them conquer china. The United States attacked Japan because of Pearl Harbor. Also to stop spreading communism to china.
  • Nationalism

    Nationalism
    the agressors that started world war 2, were the fascists of Germany and Italy, they were 2 different nations with 2 different cultures, and different interests in the world war, but they collaborated together, so this was internationalism, which is the antithesis of the 2nd definition of Nationalism