Was World War I the cause of World WarII?
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WWII was thought of Germany's "revenge" or rebirth after the shame it was brought due to the Treaty of Versailles. Germany was made to pay the countries it affected after the war and limit the number of military troops. Germany was not present during the discussion of the treaty and it felt wronged. Hitler used this is a spin to bring the Germans to rally behind him. WWI is actually considered the "unfinished war" and WWII was just a continuation.
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Bosnia played a major role in the outbreak of WWI. The main causes of WWI were the following: The assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand, Opposing alliances, nationalism, militarism, and imperialism.\n\nBosnia played a major role as it was a Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand who murdered the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.\n\nIf you want anymore help on WWI, you can email me at skaur1290@yahoo.com. I'm decent enough in history to help you on both the World Wars.
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That is a huge question...It can be said to lead all the way back to the Treaty of Versailles ending WWI. \n\nTry this. It's concise. http://ehistory.osu.edu/wwii/timeline.cfm
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There weren't just three - there were dozens of factors that contributed to "The Great War".  Three of the main ones that I can think of are:\n\nColonialism - the Germans wanted to build a colonial empire to match the British.  This required military buildup threatening it's neighbors.\n\nMilitary Alliances - Because of all the complex alliances among the European powers, the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand triggered a series of declarations of war, starting with Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia.\n\nFranco-German tension - France and Germany had hotly contested the Alsace-Lorraine region bordering the two countries, and had fought several wars over it's occupation for many years.  The region exchanged hands several times but was considered part of France at the outbreak of WWI fueling more of Germany's hatred for France.
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I'd say WWI, after WWII the soviets and Americans were pretty much at eachother's throats and the advent of the atomic age ensured heightened levels of paranoia from all sides now that a single bomber could level a city.\n\nAfter WWI things could have gone a lot better if the allied powers weren't so harsh on germany (but that goes back to the french's stupidity during the napoleonic wars, but I digress) and if the stock market hadn't crashed hitler would have had a much harder time coming to power.
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It has everything to do with the Treaty of Versailles. As it's name points out, this is a treaty signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the French city of Versailles. It was the peace treaty that officially ended World War I and unofficially started World War II.\n\nOne of the terms of this treaty was the creation of the League of Nations, whose goal would be to prevent another world war. Other parts of the treaty stated that Germany was to be fully blamed for World War I and because of this, Germany was demanded to pay up all damages calculated of WWI. Also, Germany was denied having an airforce, a navy and was only allowed to have a limited land army. It's colonies were taken away and other damages were also imposed. In a nutshell, Germany was brought to it's knees and into a depression.\n\nThis helped bring about the rise of Hitler who promised to tear up the hated treaty. Of course, Germans supported him and once he arranged for virtually limitless power, it was too late. Nations part of the League of Nations were also fooled by Hitler. They allowed Hitler to take over Austria-Hungary, which belong to Germany prior to WWI. The League of Nations did not disagree much with Hitler's request to undo the Treaty of Versailles. They agreed with him that the terms were much too harsh.\n\nIt was only until Hitler marched into Poland that everyone realized what was happening. But of course, that set foot into a much bloodier World War.\n\nReally, the League of Nations failed to prevent WWII by allowing a genius psychopath to manipulate them. (This is my opinion.)\n\nHope this novel of mine answers your question.
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As a result of WWI, Germany got trampled politically and economically.  Germany was forced to pay huge monetary remunerations since it was blamed for causing WWI.  Internally their money was undervalued and inflation was rampant.  One of the parties trying to gain control in the government was the Nazi party.  Hitler came to power in I believe 1933 with promises of a better quality of life, prosperity and (a big factor) a plan to regain Germany's status on the world stage.  He violated conditions set down in the Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 1919.  He built up the military beyond the treaty's limits i.e. built ships bigger than allowed, more tanks than were allowed, planes, etc.\n  Also, he had the idea that someone had to be blamed for the general poverty of the populace.  This was deemed the "Jewish problem".\n    The possible precursor to WWII was his being given the "Sudetenland" in Czechoslovakia.  Instead of the rest of Europe standing up to his aggressive invasion plans, it was thought if he was given some land he'd be happy and go back to his trampled nation.  Well, as we all know, that didn't happen.
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This question is best considered separately for Japan and for Germany.\n\n1. Japan, which was historically a militaristic society, wished to develop economically to a status similar to that of the Western powers. However, as an island state Japan has very few natural resources. It is notably lacking in oil, but more generally it has to import raw materials such as metallic ores. Therefore Japan wished to conquer territory in South East Asia to control resources. This initailly brought Japan into conflict with China, an ancient enemy, and then Dutch, English and American possesions in the Far East.\n\n 2. The war in Europe resulted from  Germany's agressive actions. In part it had economic causes: Germany had punitive financial conditions imposed upon it by the Versilles Treaty which end the First World War in 1919. France in particular pressed for these conditions, but the Treaty was the joint responsibility of all the allied powers. The main ones, which formed a sort of inner cabinet that actually agreed the Treaty, were the United States, France, United KIngdom and Italy: there were also various minor players such as Greece. The consequences of the Versailles Treaty were made worse by international economic decisions that resulted in massive unemployment in the developed world continuously between 1919 and 1939. Hitler was the only leader to address this, by expanding his arms industries, but this led to War becuase the output was geared to foreign agression and because without War Germany's credit would have run out. Another problem which encouraged war was that the First World War was not fought on German soil, but French, and a myth developed in Germany as a result that their country had been treated as the loser when they had not really been defeated.\n   The above describes the causes of the Second World War in general terms,  but at another level Hitler was hugely responsible as an individual. He whipped up military feeling and hostility towards foreign nations and races as a means, in the early days of his rule, of courting political popularlity.\n    Technically, England and France declared war on Germany in 1939 over the invasion of Poland. It is arguable that more competent politicans between the wars in these two countries would have stopped Hitler without a major War, e.g. by calling Hitler's bluff when he entered the Rhineland in 1936.\n\nCulpability for the Second World War in Europe is now really a historical question. The countries and people today who threaten world peace are quite different from  those whose evils caused the Second World War. \n  .
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Nope. War is caused by greed, too. Religion is often (though not always) just the excuse given to make the people go along with it. Greed will never go away. \n\nHate comes from differences. Human nature is to fear differences. There are more differences among the peoples of the earth than just religion. Race is one that comes to mind.
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the reason why europe has been starting world wars is that they were the most advanced countries in the past and moreover europe being a congested continent with the countries so close to each other, they always had an issue with each other and with so many of them involved things used to become very tricky.\n\nanyways i think that the third world war would  not be started by europe.  it would most probably start from asia with the US playing a key role(not in positive sense)
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Greed and selfishness are the causes.  What else can be the causes?  Leaders of those European countries want more land and money.  They want only their people to be wealthy and in power.  They want to use all the other people that they took advantage of to make more wealth and power for themselves.  (Hey, don't forget Japan was also involved in WWII.)\n\nThe consequences of those two wars are a lot of hatred between groups of people.  No one will ever forget the loss of a loved one being killed or the house that they've worked for all their lives being bombed and gone within seconds.  Wars destroy futures within seconds.  When stuff like this happens, some people don't forget which group of people or country did it to them.  So they teach their children and grandchildren how to hate the other group of people.  So much hatred in this world came from wars, esp. WWI & WWII.
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The answer to this is complex and depends on whose history you read. However, the European side of WWII was caused solely by Adolf Hitler's quest for power.  He used tactics such as the Dolchstoss Legend, which stemmed from the "stab in the back" sentiments of the Treaty of Versailles, to gain power.  These tactics gained him wide support from Germans who were still bitter from their loss of WWI.  It also rallied anti-semitism because this legend, in part, blammed the Jews for the loss.  Initially Great Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement towards Hitler, allowing him to take over former German lands such as Czechoslovokia.  However, Hitler kept wanting more. WWII started after Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939.  Great Britain and France, allies of Poland, declared war two days later. \n\nOf course, if you look at WWII from the point of view of Asia, the war started much earlier.  According to China, the war started when Japan invaded them and the infamous Rape of Nanking occurred.  \n\nThe US became involved initially with the Cash and Carry policy developed in 1939.  The US, still struggling with the economic depression, used this to remain neutral but to fuel the need for industrial jobs.  After a while, though, Great Britain and France could no longer afford to pay the US for goods and the US enacted the Lend-Lease program in 1941.  This program allowed for much the same, but the Allies were not paying for the goods immediately.  Therefore, it could be argued that since the US only provided goods to Allied forces, we were involved in the war since 1939. \n\nHowever, most pinpoint US involvement as occuring shortly after  December 7, 1941 (the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese).    Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, with Hitler wanting to declare war on US before we could declare war on anyone. The United States was fuming at the Japanese, but the president decided to focus more on the European front first, making that top priority.
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I’m getting too old, I can’t believe anyone would need to ask such a question.\nWorld War I, 1914–18, also known as the Great War, conflict, chiefly in Europe, among most of the great Western powers. It was the largest war the world had yet seen.Causes \nWorld War I was immediately precipitated by the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian nationalist in 1914. There were, however, many factors that had led toward war. Prominent causes were the imperialistic, territorial, and economic rivalries that had been intensifying from the late 19th cent., particularly among Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, and Austria-Hungary.\nOf equal importance was the rampant spirit of nationalism, especially unsettling in the empire of Austria-Hungary and perhaps also in France. Nationalism had brought the unification of Germany by blood and iron, and France, deprived of Alsace and Lorraine by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, had been left with its own nationalistic cult seeking revenge against Germany. While French nationalists were hostile to Germany, which sought to maintain its gains by militarism and alliances, nationalism was creating violent tensions in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; there the large Slavic national groups had grown increasingly restive, and Serbia as well as Russia fanned Slavic hopes for freedom and Pan-Slavism.\nImperialist rivalry had grown more intense with the new imperialism of the late 19th and early 20th cent. The great powers had come into conflict over spheres of influence in China and over territories in Africa, and the Eastern Question, created by the decline of the Ottoman Empire, had produced several disturbing controversies. Particularly unsettling was the policy of Germany. It embarked late but aggressively on colonial expansion under Emperor William II, came into conflict with France over Morocco, and seemed to threaten Great Britain by its rapid naval expansion.\nThese issues, imperialist and nationalist, resulted in a hardening of alliance systems in the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente and in a general armaments race. Nonetheless, a false optimism regarding peace prevailed almost until the onset of the war, an optimism stimulated by the long period during which major wars had been avoided, by the close dynastic ties and cultural intercourse in Europe, and by the advance of industrialization and economic prosperity. Many Europeans counted on the deterrent of war's destructiveness to preserve the peace.\nWar's Outbreak \nThe Austrian annexation (1908) of Bosnia and Hercegovina created an international crisis, but war was avoided. The Balkan Wars (1912–13) remained localized but increased Austria's concern for its territorial integrity, while the solidification of the Triple Alliance made Germany more yielding to the demands of Austria, now its one close ally. The assassination (June 28, 1914) of Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Sarajevo set in motion the diplomatic maneuvers that ended in war.\nThe Austrian military party, headed by Count Berchtold, won over the government to a punitive policy toward Serbia. On July 23, Serbia was given a nearly unacceptable ultimatum. With Russian support assured by Sergei Sazonov, Serbia accepted some of the terms but hedged on others and rejected those infringing upon its sovereignty. Austria-Hungary, supported by Germany, rejected the British proposal of Sir Edward Grey (later Lord Grey of Fallodon) and declared war (July 28) on Serbia.\nRussian mobilization precipitated a German ultimatum (July 31) that, when unanswered, was followed by a German declaration of war on Russia (Aug. 1). Convinced that France was about to attack its western frontier, Germany declared war (Aug. 3) on France and sent troops against France through Belgium and Luxembourg. Germany had hoped for British neutrality, but German violation of Belgian neutrality gave the British government the pretext and popular support necessary fo
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world war 2 was going on
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Causes of WWI\n\nAlliance System\n-Bismarck wanted to isolate France and protect Germany politically and militarily from Austria\noAlliances were seen as a political deterrent to prevent the militarization of growing tensions between European powers\n-Growing tensions between European powers by 1911\noFrance bitter about Alsace Lorraine territories\noFranco-Prussian War\nDecline of Ottoman Empire\nRise of Nationalism\n•In Balkan Peninsula\noImperialism\nGermany envious of Britain for their growing territories\noCoastal territories\nIndian Ocean\noResources\nFuel for airplanes, etc.\noEconomic tensions\nTariffs grow\nProtectionism\noParanoia from imperialism\nBlocs (1912-1914)\n-Triple Entente\noFrance—anti Germany\noEngland—want to check power of Germany and balance of power in Africa\noRussia—conflicts with Austria from Nationalist movements, Russia helped Balkan Serbia against Austria, Serbia and Russia have common Slovak heritage, closer ties\n-Triple Alliance\noGermany\noAustria-Hungary\noItaly—felt cheated out of territory at Berlin Conference (anti England), against Russians b/c anti-communist, and tension with France\n-Downside: one country against another—pulls in EVERYONE\nBalkan Wars \n-War #1\noSerbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, and other small provinces aided by Russia and Greece oppose Ottomans\noOttomans defeated\n-War #2\noSerbs, Bulgarians in particular squabble over spoils of war and land borders—distracted \noAustria can annex Bosnia and Herzegovina\nSerbia sees this as a loss of their own territory, breach of contract, act of aggression\nFranz Joseph sends Archduke Franz Ferdinand to Sarajevo to “review the books”\noBlack Hand\nTerrorist plot to assassinate archduke\nGavrillo Prinkep jumps out and assassinates archduke\noAustria gives Serbia ultimatum\nAustria wants to control Serbia or else\nAustria annexes Serbia\nRussia replies for Serbia, the annexation of Serbia would be seen as an act of war against Russians\nKaiser Vilhelm\nBlank check, Austrians get all the money they need for war from Germans against Russia\noAustria declares war on Serbia, Russia declares war on Austria, Germany helps Austria/declares war on Russia, France declares war on Germany\noEngland holds back for a while, have caveat\nWWI\n-August 1914\nWestern Front\n-Von Schlifen Plan/Blitz of Germany\noTake over France after starting Berlin, sweep through Belgium, then eastern front\noTakes Russia at least 3 weeks to mobilize\nTelegrams\nPeasant villages\nTransportation\nUniforms\nWeapons \noParis is key to France—go through north sea\no“Let last mine on right brush the column with his sea”\nolong string of German soldiers in control of everything from English channel to German border\noproblems\nBelgians retaliate unexpectedly, defend country\nAppeal to Germans to respect neutrality—then appeal to British for support, agree to help\nGermans assume that British will not help, try to stall them\n•Blockades, blow up bridges, etc.\n-French troops also moving toward Belgian border quickly to hold off Germans, sent them in taxi cabs—frantic move to halt German advance\n-stalemate forms on western front between September 1914 and Christmas/December of 1915\nostalemate exists between 1915-1918\noFirst Battle of Marne\noBelgians and French slow down Germans\noTrench warfare \nIntended to be interim solution until they move ppl to the eastern border\nBecome permanent\n100 miles in either direction—stalemate/moo point\nno one wins territory\n-1818—Armistice Line drawn as temporary solution before Treaty of Versailles \nEastern Front\n-Ottoman Turks\n-Battle of Tannenburg\n-Russians advance in to Austrian territories and Germany, pushed back by Austrians, then Germans respectively (Sep. 1914-1915)\n-Many casualties\n-Italy brought in—switches sides to Triple Entente\n-Bulgaria allies with Austria, Germany\n-Balkans brought into
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Most wars are based on some sort of idealogical crusade. But according to the Wiki: "Woodrow Wilson and other observers blamed the war on militarism....Aristocrats and military elites had too much control... and the war was a consequence of their desire for military power and disdain for democracy.... [Wilson] called for the abdication of such rulers, the end of the aristocratic system and the end of militarism—all of which justified American entry into the war. Wilson hoped the League of Nations and universal disarmament would secure a lasting peace."
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World War I/Great Depression