World War II causes and results

The Treaty of Versailles put Germany in an extremely humiliating position. The country lost all its colonies, and about 15% of the European territories, which, according to the treaty, went to France, Belgium, Poland. Germany had to pay multi-billion reparations. But, the most humiliating of all, the country had to lose its army. Its number should not exceed 100 thousand people, the General Staff and most other military departments were dissolved. The country had no right to develop any kind of weapon, except for the needs of the police. Naturally, such conditions have become an excellent base for strengthening opposition nationalist movements headed by Adolf Hitler. The end result of this treaty was the Second World War, the causes of which should be sought not in the 30s of the last century, but two decades earlier.

Throughout its centuries of history, Germany was one of the leading countries in Europe. Heir to the Holy Roman Empire could not be brought to his knees. Hitler's slogans, which provoked nationalist movements in citizens, led to the strengthening of the Nazi Party of Independent States, and, as a result, led to the fall of the Weimar Republic. The birth of the Third Reich was met with great enthusiasm by the people. Hitler developed active activities to conclude treaties with other countries, military alliances were concluded with Italy and Japan. At first, secretly, under the cover of the development of agricultural machinery, and then obviously the development of more modern tanks began. Under the pretext of developing aircraft for the lagging countries of that period, the Germans improved their own aircraft.

Thus, by 1936 the army of Germany already represented a very impressive force, which it was already impossible to reckon with. The Second World War, the reasons and reasons for which accumulated faster, was already around the corner. The interaction of units and formations of various arms was perfected in battle in Spanish territory. The Nazis supported General Franco. It was in Spain that the first test battle clash between the forces of Germany and the USSR was held. Despite the fact that the Bolshevik movement was defeated, the Germans appreciated the military might of the USSR.

The Germans appreciated the situation well and were aware of the equipment of the Red Army with modern weapons. The Great Patriotic War was delayed for several more years. Hitler understood that without the industrial capacities of Europe he could not overcome the USSR. But in general, the country was ready, and the Second World War began. The causes of the conflict that has erupted can also be found in the treacherous behavior of England and France. Their leaders were so carried away by the attempt to set off Hitler and Stalin among themselves that they ignored their allied obligations to Czechoslovakia, which they simply "gave" to the Nazis in 1938, in the hope that Germany would continue its offensive to the east. It is the annexation of the Third Reich of Czechoslovakia that begins the main dates of the Second World War.

So, the Second World War, the reasons for its beginning, should not be sought only in Hitler's desire to establish the domination of the Aryan nation over all the others. The humiliating Treaty of Versailles, which led to the strengthening of the nationalist movement, the connivance of England and France and their desire to weaken the USSR at the expense of Germany, led to the building up of the Nazi military potential, respectively, the country faced a choice: either to start a war or be in a deep economic crisis.