The Treaty of Versailles happened post World War I in the palace of Versailles in France. The League of Nations came together saying they wouldn’t go to war any time soon and blamed Germany for the war. Because of this, Germany suffered a lot of hardship. The terretories Germany had won in the Franco-Prussian war were taken away, they were forced to ddemilitarize and reduce their army, and were heavily taxed leading to a horrible economy. This all made way for Hitler’s rise, promising the people to bring back Germany’s national pride. At the same time as Hitler’s sort of rising, Italian nationalist, Mussolini was as well. Mussolini was the creator of fascism or the toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. Mussolini and Hitler had both signed the Pact of Steel in 1939 and led fascist movements in the 1930s and 1940s. Hitler also began to take more and more lands for example Czechoslovakia. At the same time, America was attempting to impose trade on Japan which was an isolationist country. The Japanese were forced into unequal treaties and now had limited resources. Because of this, they began to expand taking over Northern China and surprisingly winning Russia. They expanded into the Pacific and became a threat to the West making the Western countries force them back. These factors, expansion and social revolution, are what arguably led to WW2.
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AuthorAloha, my name is Hālaʻi Napuelua. I am 15 years old and from Nānākuli, Oʻahu. Archives
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