Adolf Hitler Caused World War II
May 1, 2012
Adolf Hitler Caused World War II
As I’m sure most people know Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Germans from August 2 1934 to April 30 1945, but do you know that as Fuhrer of Germany he was the driving force behind the start of WWII. During his reign he tried to bring Germany back to the powerful country it had been before the First World War. In this paper I will prove that Hitler’s actions lead to start of WWII, and I plan to prove how his direct disregard of the Treaty of Versailles pushed the world into WWII. I will begin with a little background on Hitler and what led him to become the Fuhrer of Germany. Hitler was a member of the German army during the First World War and,
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Then a month later President Hindenburg died, which made Hitler the head of state. This allowed him to control all aspects of Germany, and also allowed him to start rebuilding the military forces that had been ordered to disband with the passing of the Treaty of Versailles. This was probably the biggest step thus far that would send Germany to war yet again. Along with that he had personally taken over as leader of the military when Werner von Blomberg had openly told Hitler that he disagreed with him about having the military ready to go to war as soon as 1938. (Shire, 1960) Over the next few months he had stripped 16 generals and had 44 more transferred because they were believed to not be sufficiently pro-Nazi. On February 3, 1933 during a meeting with German military leaders Hitler said his foreign policy was the conquest of Eastern Europe (Weinberg, 1970), also in 1933 Germany withdrew from the League of Nations, which should have been a warning sign that they were planning something big. This along with the increase of the Wehrmacht (German Army) to 600,000 should have thrown up some red flags to Britain and France that Hitler was up to no go. This was another of Hitler’s direct violations of the Versailles Treaty, yet no one stopped him, instead they let him continue untouched. Then in March of 1936
On June 28th 1919, in the Versailles Palace of France, the treaty of Versailles officially ended World war one. The signers of this treaty implemented certain restrictions on Germany that were to guarantee Germany would never start another world war. This begs the question, “what did the end of one war have to do with the start of World War Two?”. The evidence shows that it was this treaty’s influence on Adolf Hitler that led to the Versailles Treaty’s ultimate failure and provoked the start of the next world war. Because of this treaty Adolf Hitler’s economic plan, proposed while he was seeking political election, was focused on rebuilding and reclaiming Germany. This went hand in hand with the nationalist ideas of the Nazi party.
The Treaty of Versailles provoked WWII by demanding the obliteration of Germany’s army, huge sums of reparations, and total mortification of Germany. All of these factors drove Germany to get their own revenge, and show the world they were not
Once in power Hitler quickly established himself as dictator. He started hauling off thousands of anti-Nazis to concentration camps. The economy, the media, and all cultural activities were brought under Nazi authority by making an individual’s livelihood dependent on their political loyalty. His desire was to establish German rule over Europe and other parts of the world. He realized that this would lead to a European conflict and so he started his plan to conquer Europe by invading Poland in 1939 and started World War ll . The war started off good for the Germans but once the United States entered the war they started to lose. As time passed, defeat became more certain, but Hitler refused to give up. Finally with all of Germany overrun by Allied
From the Treaty of Versailles, to the rise of Hitler, and the failure of the League of Nations, there were many causes that lead up to World War II. World War I left Germany with many shortfalls, thus leaving them in the hands of the Treaty of Versailles. Rather unfair of a Treaty, this left Germany once again looking for another way out. A country resented by many had no other choice but to feel optimistic toward Adolph Hitlers empty promises… making it substantially simple for him to gain power so quick. Throw in the Great Depression, and you have a vastly unstable world, which the Germans believed Hitler would lead them out of.
One of the most common asked questions through history is: Why? Why did settlers decide to take people and turn them into slaves? Why was war created? Why do people discriminate against each other? Why did Adolf Hitler start the Holocaust? As of the 21st century, we have the knowledge as to why Hitler decided to start World War II, therefore creating the Holocaust. However, we only understand the historical side of things. But what about the psychological side? Where did the anger that fueled Hitler actually come from, and what was his thinking behind his plans. Was it truly just the Treaty of Versailles that pushed Hitler to seek revenged for the wrongly blamed Germany, or was it something more engrained in his mind that fueled him?
To begin, Adolf Hitler played a key role in World War II because his anger stemmed from his early life. First, Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Branunau Austria (Roberts 8). Hitler was 1 of six other children his mother and father had, but only he and his sister Paula Hitler were the only ones to survive to adulthood (Roberts 6). Second, Hitler was a very intelligent student, but once he changed schools he became very lazy. Hitler loved art and history classes in school, but during other classes he was not interested so he sketched drawings and
The Reasons Hitler Came To Power In 1933, Hitler the leader of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party) became the Chancellor of Germany which was in crisis at the time. I will try to explore some of the reasons why he progressed in gaining this position. After the Treaty of Versailles, Germanys' government was a coalition of two political parties. The government was part Social Demarcates and part Peoples Parties these governments both were in favor of the Treaty of Versailles and wanted Germany to pay back their reparations.
backed out without much question! It was far too casual for it to be a
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.
Throughout the war Hitler gained control of every single human under his power and could easily just tell one of his SS officers to do anything and he would do it, because everyone knew how powerful he actually was. Right from the start of it when he became the leader of the German Workers party everyone knew that he was a little bit crazy on the inside, but no one knew what he was capable of doing. Ultimately his power grew stronger by the day and he knew what he was doing with it right from the beginning. Which made him such a successful leader. He found Germany at their weakest point and knew the citizens of the country would do anything to not live in poverty. So Hitler took his chances and decided to join the Nazi party which at first was the lowest ranked party but as time went
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
Adolf Hitler was a ruthless dictator of the Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. Adolf Hitler’s early years were, he was born in Braunau am, Inn on April 20, 1889 to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. Adolf had six siblings and as a child he showed his interest into German nationalism. Which would motivate and inspire his actions in life. As his father passed away, Adolf would drop out of high school and become a painter. This would cause him to run out of money and make him move into a homeless shelter for several years. With the coming of World War one, Hitler applied to serve for the German army even though he was Austrian. He was accepted and later on injured in the battle of Somme, but received an award for his bravery. After German surrendered
In 1934 Adolf Hitler was elected president or Chancellor of Germany.Then shortly after becoming Chancellor of Germany he became leader of the Nazis. He was determined to make Germany the strong country it once was. He got that determination from his government letting down Germany after World war one. Because of that determination he succeed in making his country the strongest in the world. People say that his leadership was very significant. How did he do this? This all started when he turned his attention towards Austria.
On top of this, by 1938 Germany was experiencing high living standards as a result of Hitler’s volksgemeinschaft and was a formidable power, thus the Allies recognised German desire for expansion into a previously had region. It also evident that Hitler understood this detail in the timing of the Anschluss-when in 1936 Hitler had made similar demands, the Allies stood opposed, and the Wehrmacht was ill-equipped to defy Allied wishes. In 1938 Hitler understood Germany’s military capacity, and used its position to pursue the foreign policies based on the ideologies in Mein Kampf.
Many Historians see this document as a absolute proof of Hitler’s responsibility for War in Europe. It is true to say, with hindsight that the Memorandum was used at the Nuremberg trials to . It has, however, limited credibility as the minutes were drawn up many days after the event, therefore he was recalling from his memory, and not by his secretary directly at the meeting, as was usually done. On the other hand, it still give a rare glimpse into the order of procession for no minutes of this meeting were meant to be taken as Hitler’s closest advisers had been pledged to secrecy. Therefore there are no other documents like it. Nevertheless, the reliability of this document is in doubt for looking back at the context, Hitler would