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Why did World War 2 started?

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Let's get back to ww1 for this. When Germany was defeated in 1918 they were blames for the war and had to pay reparations to the allies. A man names Adolf Hitler who was born in Austria-Hungary canary to power in the 1930s. He convinced Germans that they aren't the ones to blame for ww1. With many supporters Hitler began building a military which according to the Lausanne treaty back in 1923 forbids Germany from building up a military. The British knew what he was doing so instead of telling Hitler to stop they let him in order to prevent a war.

Hitler started to eliminate Jews, on September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland and ww2 begins

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Germany invaded Poland
The Second World War was started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler had refused to abort his invasion of Poland.
Some historians have said that World War 1 and World War 2 were all the same war with a 20 year gap between the two parts. However, it is officially accepted that World War 2 started when German troops invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. The United States entered the conflict after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941.
Each nation had their particular reason for entering the war.

Germany: Hitler initiated the actions that sparked the start of the war. In his mind he was trying to right the wrongs of WWI that had left Germany humiliated and weak. He also wanted to satisfy the needs of his twisted ideology...which included the murder of millions of people (i.e. Jews for the most part.)

Britain & France: They declared war on Germany because they had reached the end of the line in negotiations. They had finally learned that Hitler could not be trusted and would not be stopped by negotiations. If they did not act he would continue to gobble up countries and get too strong to defeat.

Russia: Was fighting for their lives. Germany invaded Russia to annex its European territory to be used as living space for Germans. The Russian occupants would basically be killed or used as slave labor for the ruling Germans.

Italy: Mussolini saw an opportunity (which turned out to be a mirage) to gain easily at the expense of Britain and France. Once he realized he was wrong and it would be a long war it was too late and he was tied to Germany.

U.S.: Fighting to rid the world of the threat posed by Germany & Japan (and Italy). Although if Japan had not attacked the U.S then Hitler would not have declared war on the U.S., but alas that is the stuff that dreams are made of.

Japan: Japan was fighting to create an Empire at the expense of the western powers. Japan is resource poor so their leaders had for the last 15-20 years abused other countries (namely China) to rape them for resources. WWII for them was an extension of this policy with an attack on the U.S. thrown it to try to keep them out of the way.

AnswerLets pretend that the Germain nation, led by Adolf Hitler was a boy at your school. One day he intimidates and bullies another boy into giving him his lunch money because he wanted it.. Exstatic with his successs he does the same thing the next day and then the next. Success breeds contempt! The other children seeing what is occurring at their school join forces to stop the bully. The reason for, and the beginning of what became WWII.
World War 2 was fought because of Germany wanted to take Poland from France and Great Britain. U.S.A. fought because Hitler was killing Jews for no reason and Japan and Italy were allies with Germany.
Purpose of WWII
  • Purpose for the Axis: To take over the world.
  • Purpose for the Allies: To prevent the Axis to take over the world.

To make the world free of Hitler's rule.

The purpose for the US to start fighting in WW2 was because Japan attcked the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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