Three reasons why world war2 started?

Answer 1

One reason was The defiance of the League of nations by Japan and Italy during the 1930's. The Italian invasion of Abyssinia ( 1935 ) and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria ( 1931 ) exposed the weakness of the League of Nations, and thus encouraged another leader with ambitions in foreign policy to act - Adolf Hitler. Another reason was Adolf Hitler's abolition of the treaty of Versailles. This was carried out with the annexation of Austria to the Third Reich, being against the terms issued on the Treaty of Versailles. Also, Germany re-militarised the Rhineland, which was also forbidden on the treaty. Hitler also re-armed, increasing the German army from 100,000 men to over 300,000, as well as establishing an airforce - the luftwaffe. No airforce was permitted, nor an army more than 100,000 men, and so the Fuhrer was risking war. And finally, Adolf Hitler broke his word at the Munich Conference in 1938 by invading the rest of Czechoslovakia in march 1939, and then occupying Poland on 1st September 1939. Britain had promised to protect Poland if it was attacked, and so declared war on Germany on 2nd September. A final reason was that Britain and France did nothing to stop Hitler while he was invading countries. This allowed Germany to become strong again through re-arming and training its armies through combat in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Appeasement was the reason for this, which was the policy that British Prime minister Nevile Chamberlain used to satisfy Hitler's greed. Britain was unprepared for war, and certainly did not want another war, and so it let Hitler get away with a few abolitions of the treaty of Versailles, until the German invasion of Poland. Thank you for reading. By Alex Vanderlee.