Introduction
In this History Inquiry, I will be looking into why Adolf Hitler started World War 2. The causes of why he started this, what the Treaty of Versailles was, what significance the decision had to New Zealand, who was involved in the main part of the war, and what were the main effects overall.
Who was involved, what did they do/impact?
The main group of people was the Nazi’s who were the group that took over Germany’s government with their leader, Adolf Hitler who came to power in 1933 and decided that there needed to be many changes, including to take back everything that had been taken due to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The Nazi’s started the war 1 September 1939 which involved in their army invading Poland to take over the land, forcing them to surrender. The next country involved was the Soviet Union and they had signed with the Nazi’s a non-agression pact in August 1939, many thought that Adolf Hitler had plans on attacking the Russians as soon as the time was right. This happened on 22 June,1941 where the largest German operation took place, they invaded the Soviet Union with more than 650,000 troops on the western front in a few months the Soviet army …show more content…
The treaty included, that all German colonies were taken and given to France and Britain as ‘Mandates’, the German army was restricted to only 100,000 and could only be volunteers, the German navy was also restricted to 6 battleships and no submarines. Germany wasn’t allowed a air force, Germany was responsible for causing all of the damage in the war, they would be forced to pay for all the loss of damage and what they did which ended up being 132 billion dollars, Germany was forbidden to unite with Austria, and the big term was that lots and lots of land was taken away from