Cause And Effects Of Ww2 Essay

The damage of World War I had very much destabilized Europe. World War II probably came about from issues left unresolved from after World War I. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany, and harsh terms enforced by the Versailles Treaty. This helped Adolf Hitler come to power. After becoming Reich Chancellor in 1933, Hitler quickly took power, giving himself the title Führer which means supreme leader in 1934.

In the mid-1930s, he secretly began the building up of Germany in violation of the Versailles Treaty. In late August 1939, Hitler and USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) leader, Joseph Stalin, signed the German- Soviet Nonaggression Pact which created a lot of worry in London and Paris. Hitler had been planning an invasion of Poland, a nation which Great Britain and France had guaranteed military support if it was attacked by Germany. The agreement with Stalin meant that Hitler would not face a war with the Soviet Union once he invaded Poland, and would have their assistance in conquering and dividing the nation itself. Hitler’s plan on invading Poland was went through with on September 1st, 1939. This is the event that started everything.

Earlier, Germany seized Czechoslovakia and Austria without disturbing France

By early 1940, Germany and the Soviet Union had spilt control over the nation, according to the Nonaggression Pact that both Hitler and Stalin agreed to. Stalin’s forces then moved to occupy Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which were known as the Baltic States. During the six months subsequent to the invasion of Poland, the lack of action on the part of Germany and the Allies in the west led to talk in the news media of a “phony war.” At sea, however, the British and German navies faced off in heated battle, and German U-boat submarines struck at merchant shipping bound for Britain, sinking more than 100 vessels in the first four months of World War