In 1939 the world plunged into a state of depression and war, each country turning on one another. Diplomatic factors, Hitler's thirst for power, and the political and financial stand point are arrows that point directly to a future of destruction and war, all with the failure of appeasement. Collective security worked as a buffer between conflicts, and was the best response toward aggression. The weakening League of Nations failed to keep collective security intact from any wars. Hitler's leadership threatened the peace in Europe which caused Germany to stir up war around the world. The economic and political stand points were in danger and on the verge of collapsing.
When Germany had used aggression against other countries, collective
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As stated in the New York Times, "...Germany today cast off the last shackles fastened upon her by the Treaty of Versailles when Adolf Hitler, as commander-in-chief of the Reich defense forces, sent his new battalions into the Rhineland’s demilitarized zone. . . ." (Document3). Hitler had challenged every condition in the Treaty of Versailles and violated every negotiation made. Territorial aggression and pushed every limit he was given, that disrupted peace. Hitler himself expresses his idea as stated "Oppressed territories are led back to the bosom of a common Reich, not by flaming protests, but by a mighty sword" (Document1). He also, rebuilt the German military and used extreme nationalism to unite Germany. A British historian, A.J.P Taylor expressed, " ...Hitler when he had come to power by constitutional means and was apparently supported by a large majority of the German people?"(Document8). Hitler had gathers supporters through his ideas and his speeches of hope. Hitler's leadership threatened the whole continent of Europe's peace. If his leadership was the ignition to the fire then state or the economy kept the fire running through the
One Day Adolf Hitler came to power the Germans in 1933. Hitler and his Nazi party set out to create a Greater German Empire by a pure “master race. Early in the war, jews were rounded up, stripped of rights and property. One way they found joy is through laughter It hurt mama to give me life? Why?
Throughout 1939 the Nazis became popular, but not to everyone. The ideal image of a Nazi was to promote German pride and furthermore expressed dissatisfaction towards the Treaty of Versailles. One of the Nazis goals were to help spread anti-Semitism and furthermore recreate their image after the loss in WWI. Adolf Hitler had many and disappointments in his childhood years that influenced the person he became during the Holocaust. Hitler wasn’t always the person whom he was that we now remember.
World War II officially racked the world from 1939 to 1944, but before any one nation actually declared war, Hitler was trying to take land. To respond with appeasement or collective security was debated by many as to which would avoid damage in the most efficient manner. Document 3, Document 4, and Document 6 show how collective security was definitely a more beneficial strategy than appeasement to respond to aggression.
Hitler had risen and taken over Germany using persuasion and Nazi propaganda. Very soon he took advantage of the Enabling Act of 1933 making laws without anyone else’s input. These supposed laws were supposed to be for emergency only but to Hitler anything he wanted was an emergency. He made things for the populous worse too by inciting martial law after the Reichstag was taken down. He eventually made it so anything would pass for the Nazi party and those who didn't agree were exterminated. With this ultimate power he rebuilt Germany for war immediately and made plans to unite all the German peoples, thought this was difficult to do under the Treaty of Versailles so he erased that too.The allies saw this as Germany recovering, they didn’t know what was coming and they weren’t prepared. HItler used the Enabling Act of 1933 to rearm and dissipate the Treaty of Versailles and expand freely even after the allies told him to slow down. When the war was in full swing Hitler decided to implement the Final Solution and exterminate the jews, no matter how terrible it was, he could enforce it with ruthless force. This made the Enabling Act of 1933 a very significant factor in the start of world war two. All of this could have been avoided if the
Hitler was one of, if not the most infamous totalitarian leaders in all history to date. He gained that title by the cruel and inhumane ways he ruled Germany from 1933-1945. Hitler believed the “Aryan race”(people with pale skin, blonde hair and blue eyes) was the “superior race” and those who were not Aryan were subhuman and not worthy of human rights. Hitler was determined to rid Germany of any and all Jewish people and people who were not his “superior race”. Anyone who stood in his way or even spoke out against him would be tortured and murdered the same way he tortured and murdered thousands of innocent Jewish people and others he believed to be subhuman.
The world was plunging into World War II in 1939 because the league of nations did not accept the appeasement. Chamberlain suggested appeasement because he believed ¨good will and determination¨could solve differences among countries peacefully. Chamberlain said ¨They could not fight to save Czechoslovakia because it is too small of a country.¨ Hitler was going to keep on expanding and and it would get to a point to where no one would be able to stop hitler from expanding. The most effective response to aggression of nations would be collective security because shocked by the will to be taking some military actions when necessary. This was proved to be affected by many people, this gave the allies buying time to make preparations for war. This
During World War I, as part of the Central Powers, Germany was heavily involved in the war effort against the Allied Powers and suffered many losses to their empire. Due to the Treaty of Versailles, parts of their domain stripped from them, they were forced to reduce their fighting power, and they were also left with the burden of reparations from the war. This effectively led the empire into complete chaos as they suffered from humiliation and unemployment from its harsh punishment. It could be said that Adolf Hitler was at the right place at the right time when he took the opportunity that arose to become a prominent figure and promote his ideology. He managed to rise to power along with the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or the Nazi Party, which turned into a mass movement
This essay analyses the origins of the Second World War by briefly summarizing the events from 1919-1939. However, most emphasis is put on the amount of responsibility the Treaty of Versailles deserves for the outbreak of war. Other than analysing the Treaty of Versailles on its own, it also analyses the effects of the 1929 Wall Street Crash on the world, the rise of Fascism and Nazism, as well as the rise of Adolf Hitler, the failure of the League of Nations and the appeasement of the Fascist and Nazi regimes by Britain and France throughout the 1930s. Hence the Treaty of Versailles plays a
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party used nationalism to great effect in Germany that spured the Second World World. After WWI, many Germans blamed the new government for accepting the unfair treaty as conditions became miserable. People who could not find jobs began to drift into the Communist and National Socialist parties established by Hitler. They decided that it was the necessary solution. In 1933, Hitler came to power as dictator of Germany and preached a racist brand of fascism. He promised to end the humiliating conditions caused by the German defeat in WWI. He knew how to win people's obedience and trust, through their fears and insecurities. He almost immediately got Germany back into the factories and began secretly building up army and weapons. His real motives were to expand German territory and dominate Europe and the whole world that became the prelude to another war.
The devastation of the Great War (as World War I was known at the time) had greatly destabilized Europe, and in many respects World War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany and lingering resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty, fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi) Party.
Throughout World War two, Hitler had a devastating impact on the world we live in today. His rise to power took place over the course of about twelve years. He emerged as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and didn't give up that title until after world war two was finished in 1945. One of the reasons world war two initiated was because Hitler didn't comply with the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was determined upon by the 'Big Three' or the 'League of Nations' after the devastating impact world war one left in the world. The treaty promised peace among all countries, however, Hitler believed that it made Germany weak and disgraced.
Although Hitler 's ambitions and ideology fuelled his aggressive foreign policy, which hinted that a military conflict was bound during the 1930 's, the failure of the policy of appeasement was largely responsible for the outbreak of the war in 1939. The failure of appeasement allowed Hitler to attain resources and land. This kind of expansion is a direct contributor into forming a violent and widespread battle that began in 1939. However, the failure of appeasement was also directly related with other significant events that led to the war like, The Nazi-Soviet Pact, Failure of the League Nations and the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler 's desires to expand and aggressive ideological position may have hinted at a war, it was the extensive impact of the failure of appeasement that war largely responsible for the outbreak of in 1939.
In order to fully understand the role the Treaty of Versailles played in the initial upcoming of Adolf Hitler, we must first delve into the reasoning behind German involvement in World War One. Since the late 1800s, Germany was intent on expanding its borders, by any means necessary. Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany, was obsessed with his desire to “create a German Empire out of the group of smaller German states” mainly under Austria-Hungary’s authority (Schmidt, 2006). In order to expel Austria as the primary influence over these smaller German states, war was inevitable. Subsequently following the war, also known as the Seven Weeks War, Bismarck extorted the small German states of “Schleswig, Holstein, Hanover, Hesse, Nassau, and Frankfurt, which created the North German Federation” (Schmidt, 2006). Even more importantly, Austria was successfully displaced as the major influence over those small German states. Bismarck’s next calculated move was to achieve the same unification in the southern parts of Germany.
Adolf Hitler changed the politics in Germany, “The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others. ”Hitler was an unsuitable man in the eyes of politicians like President Paul von Hindenburg and Eric Ludendorff, but her still achieved so much power. Hitler achieved power in a legal way by having the people of Germany rally to his side. Hitler was a very powerful and spellbinding speaker and after the war, the world was in an economic depression, he attracted the Germans who wanted change. Hitler was believed to be an unsuitable man to become chancellor in the eyes of President Paul von Hindenburg and Eric Ludendorff because Hitler was not involved in politics much before WWI he went to school to become an artist but his artist ability failed him and was not able to make it in the art world.
As leader, Hitler wanted to make alliances with other countries and he succeeded, but his plan to lead all countries did not succeed. He broke many of his alliances that did not favored him or “his country” in any way. Hitler had promised many things, but in that