Causes of World War II

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Conflicts faced by the world today including geopolitical upheavals in Russia or Ukraine, the war in Syria, wars in Africa's or means east, should remind us that a global conflict if not galactic may occur n ' any time simply by the madness of the people, to human stupidity and bloodshed to stigmatize such fears by supporting and voting for extremist parties. The causes of the Second World War discussed in this topic should not make us forget that the past can be still present and even repeat as the old demons of war are ever present in the minds especially in these times of crises and unemployment. Some benefit, other than raising the specter of Europe known for 100 years dark years.

The causes of the Second World War are a set of factors that historians analyzed as having influenced the course of events in favor of an armed conflict, causing the outbreak of the Second World War. These causes can be deep and ancient, or one-time epiphenomena, and their influence is debated within the community of historians. Various causes are usually given as the consequences of the First World War and in particular Europe from the Treaty of Versailles, the international relations between the main actors of future conflict or geostrategic and economic situations of the various belligerents.

A wide range of causes and events , some of which are distinguished by their influence considered decisive , led to the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union, Japan attacks on China, the United States and the British colonies, French and Dutch , resulting in the outbreak of war many belligerents, and globalizing the conflict.

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[...] Events preceding the war in Asia 1894-1895: First Sino-Japanese War The Empire of Japan, modernized from the Meiji era, developing since the late nineteenth century its economic and military power, thus providing a central place and gradually hegemony in the Far East. By 1894, Japan faces China on a dispute over Korea. The Sino-Japanese War, where many commentators predict the victory of imperial China Face Little Japan, sees the Japanese army to crush the Chinese forces, thanks to its technological superiority. This victory, Japan obtained the cession of Formosa (Taiwan), the Pescadores and the Liaodong peninsula. [...]

[...] The aggressive policy of the leading Russians became interested in the development of their influence in Manchuria and Korea, Japan cares and tries at first to negotiate a sharing of areas of influence in Manchuria. But Russia does not consider these proposals and conciliation fails. That is why in 1904 the Japanese declaration of war without destroying a Russian fleet in the harbor of Port Arthur, and another Russian fleet in 1905, at the Battle of Tsushima is the Russo-Japanese War. Japan, well prepared and close to its bases thus obtained the domination of the South China Sea. [...]

[...] The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Since 1936, the future European belligerents of the Second World War begin to face more or less directly under the Spanish Civil War. On the Republican side, the International Brigades (composed mostly of Communists committed volunteers from Central Europe and especially in France, German and Italian Republicans and Democrats are fighting Anglo-Saxon under Spanish command. Franco camp involved in several Italian divisions "black shirts» commissioned by Italian and a German general aviation legion "Condor" (composed of Luftwaffe airmen under German command to come, rolling, practice their bombing missions in Spanish populations) and some hundreds of Irish volunteers . [...]

[...] Indeed, Berlin boasts corridor between East Prussia from the rest of Germany. As for Poland, it rejects German claims on Danzig Corridor which is the only access to the sea September without formal declaration of war, the German army invaded Poland on the pretext that the Polish troops committed provocations along the German-Polish border: this is the beginning of the Second World War. The invasion of Poland by the German army on 1 September 1939 is the event that formally launched the war in Europe. [...]

[...] The treaties of Versailles, St. Germain, Trianon and Neuilly arouse resentment and desire for conquest among the German people, Austrian, Hungarian and Bulgarian. In Germany, it criticizes the diktat of the Treaty of Versailles, heavy war reparations and the loss of «German lands Upper Silesia. Resentment is particularly strong in Italy, where it is called «mutilated victory «Italy is not getting the allocation of provinces of Istria, Dalmatia and Trentino she wanted. During the 1920s and 1930s, France and the United Kingdom opposed the German question, including the compensation payable by Germany and the rebuilding or dismantling of German industrial structures. [...]