World War II

EXPLAIN WHY WORLD WAR II OCCURRED JUST TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR I WHICH HAD BEEN BILLED AS THE `WAR TO END ALL WARS . ` HOW DID THIS CRUEL EVENT OCCUR AFTER THE WESTERN WORLD HAD SUFFERED SO MUCH IN WORLD WAR I ? PAGE :1 PAGE :2 PAGE :3 page :1

POST WW-I HUMILIATIONS AND RUINS THAT SHOOK GERMANY , ITALY , RUSSIA AND JAPAN

GERMANY

Terms of peace of treaty , landed Germany into

deprivation of territories in France

navy was completely destroyed

army was reduced insignificantly

p occupations of foreign tropps to enforce the provisions of treaty

huge loss in military and economy

ITALY

[1] Italy did not respect the principles laid down by the League

[2] It had put all the resources in the first WW-I basing on the suitable promises of rewards from allied powers , which remained unfulfilled

[3]opportunity for revolutionaries to create chaos as the economic conditions deteriorated

RUSSIA

[1] The economic crisis under the regime of Bolsheviks compelled Lenin to announce new economic and foreign policies

[2] Stalin succeeded Lenin and only in 1924 Government of Russia was recognized

[3] With premonition , began to strengthen its military power

JAPAN

[1] She began to grow ambitious to occupy few islands in China to reward herself , for taking the side of allies in WW-I

[2] Began to aspire to attain the name as Super Power of the world

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FACTORS ATTRIBUTED TO THE CAUSE OF WW-II

RISE OF NAZISM

From the very days of the establishment of Republic in Germany after WW-I , Germany lacked stability . Its foreign policy was not appreciated by Germans and people believed that the Republic was responsible for the humiliation that was meted to Germany after the war . Republic also failed to assert itself strongly in the international affairs . Added to this the great world-wide depression (1929 ) badly hit Germany , which was already passing through acute economic crisis .Germans felt greatly worried and disillusioned . It was at this state of economic affairs of Germany , that Hitler rose to prominence by his party `NAZI . [more in the third page on Hitler 's Nazism]

RISE OF FASCISM

Out of chaos and dis , fascist party emerged with Mussolini as its leader . The Fascists wore black shirts as uniform and drilled themselves in the military companies . The found a secret organization by name `carbonary ' to spread nationalist ideas . The principles of fascism

[a] opposed democracy , socialism and liberalism

[b]It placed the interests of the nation above all interests

[c]It deprived capitalists of all their wealth and also prohibited the labourers to go on strike

[d]they believed that their race was the most superior race in the world

[e]they did not believe in peace . They advocated that War to a nation what maternity is to women

RISE OF IMPERIALISM

Imperialism is a form of exploitation of one nation by another mainly for two purposes . The first being for industrial purposes and secondly aggressive nationalism . Japan attained victory over Manchuria in 1931 and started systematic conquests of mainlandsin...