What's world war 2 about ?

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Answer 1

There is a whole series called "The World at War" now showing on UKTV History if you have freeview that will answer all your questions.

Answer 2

World War 2 was a direct result of World War One and the humiliating situation imposed on Germany at the armistice.

Answer 3

he culmination of events that led to World War II are generally understood to be the invasion of Poland by Germany and of China by the Empire of Japan. These military aggressions were the decisions made by authoritarian ruling elites in Germany and Japan. World War II started after these aggressive actions were met with an official declaration of war and/or armed resistance.

The   five most important causes, therefore, were:  

   1.       Treaty of Versailles solved nothing

      Reparations left many people in the victorious nations feeling guilty.   The loss of all that land to other countries simply made Hitler's early aggression look justified.   Self-determination surrounded Germany by a lot of small nation states that fell easy prey to Germany.   But, most of all, the Treaty made the Germans angry, just waiting their chance for revenge.

        

   2.      League of Nations failed to keep the peace

      It was weak from the beginning, and had spectacular failures in Manchuria and Abyssinia, and in making Hitler keep the Treaty of Versailles.   It failed to achieve disarmament.   Countries left the failing League, and realised that they would have to fight a war.

        

   3.      Appeasement

      Appeasement encouraged war.   It made Hitler think no one dare stop him, which encouraged him to go further and further until in the end he went too far.   The Sudetenland led Stalin to make the n**i-Soviet Pact, because he believed he could not trust Britain.

        

   4.      Hitler

      Many historians still think that the Second World War was Hitler's personal war, and that he always intended to fight a war - as a re-run of a First World War he did not believe



5   Events (the Six Steps to War)

As you will find out when you study the Cold War, the events leading up to the war played a part in starting the fighting.   Each event created anger in the allies.   This anger grew until Chamberlain declared war on Hitler on 3rd September 1939.  

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As always, look carefully at the dates, and only talk about the events required by the essay title.

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Also, do not slide into simply describing HOW war came.   Remember that you are NOT just describing the things that Hitler did 1933-1939 - you must explain how the things that Hitler did 1933-1939 caused more and more anger and therefore led to a war breaking out.

Answer 4

Well, it's complicated. Hitler was a dictator in Germany, and he took over several countries in Europe. He also killed all the jews, so America went to war with Europe. Then Italy and Japan joined Germany, and then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. So America went to war with Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I...

Answer 5

The second part of the Great War and the end of Imperialisim a way of life for almost 400 years for many nations, the rise of Communisim and the defeat of Nationalisim as a Political main stream for most of the world until the 1990's.

A huge conflict that was totally global and involved most of the countries of the world at sometime and some point in political, military and economical ways.  Created the a global system called the United Nations from the ashes of the League of Nations, pushed the United States from a nation that was always looking in on itself into a proper global force and made them take over from the Pax Britannica of the previous century.

Gave us the horrors of unrestricted warfare, terror bombing and total warfare where all civilians are classed as front lines and ended up with early smart and remote wepons, Nuclear wepons and the begining of the Nuclear Age, the start of the quest for space, more technologoical advances in all feilds that maybe would have taken another 10 to 50 years to get fundings research or just think of the ideas.

The destruction of almost 100,000,000 lives in some way around the world, with untold 100,00's of maimed and injured people due to the conflict, the shattering of most of Europe, the Middle East and Far East by war, diesease and poverty, the almost destruction of the undesirables and Jewish Faith in the greater European area.

This is only the tip of the iceberg about world war 2.

Answer 6

about 6 years mate

Answer 7

Germany trying to take over the world again.

Answer 8

Germany, put it on bbc 2 now and you will see a movie bout it