World War 1 Causes

Causes of World War I can widely vary. The most known cause of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife on June 28, 1914 during his visitation in Sarajevo. Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist and Bosnian-Serb member of Young Bosnia, was the individual who committed this act. Because of this, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively starting World War I. Major events that occured in World War I include the official beginning event when Germany invaded Belgium on August 4, 1914. Another major event is the introduction of battle tanks. On September 15, 1916, the British employ the first tanks ever used in battle, at Delville Wood. A key fact about this war is when poison gas was introduced
into warfare on April 22, 1915. German forces fire more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium, the first major gas attack by the Germans. Important dates of World War I include the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, and the date the United States enters the war. The United States enters the war on April 16, 1917 when Congress authorizes a declaration of war against Germany. The United States enters World War I on the side of France and Britain. Important people of World War I consist of Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain. The Treaty of Versailles was an event that occurred in the aftermath of the war. Long-term effects include the $31.4 billion war reparations that Germany had to pay, causing their economic fall after the war. The inter-war years were caused by European alliances and the Nazi Germany formation. A major event that occured during these years include the Night of the Long Knives: a purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler on June 30, 1934. Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the leaders. Also, hundreds of perceived opponents were killed. On November 9, 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II left his job. Two days later, Germany signed an armistice. In November of 1936, Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler formed an alliance because of the Treaty of Versailles, and Germany allied with Japan. During the inter-war years in America, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the United States President during the Great Depression. Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi Party in 1921, and was appointed Germany’s Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Through the inter-war years, unemployment was common and widespread destruction led to internal political conflict and social instability in almost every nation in Europe during the inter-war period. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he caused a long-term effect on European population and ethnicity. He caused millions of Jews and other “inferiorities” to suffer throughout World War II, and then on. World War II was mainly caused by Germany’s invasion into Poland on September 1, 1939.
Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany two days later. The detonation of two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) by the United States during World War II are major events. The Axis Powers included Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Allied Powers included Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Soviet Union, China, and the United States. In May of 1940, Britain forces retreat from France and Adolf Hitler's armies defeat French forces. On December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter planes attack the American base at Pearl Harbor, destroying U.S. aircraft and naval vessels. During World War II, Benito Mussolini was the Prime Minister of Italy, and Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany. The aftermath of the war included halt of threats posed by the aggressive actions of the governments of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Long-term effects of World War II were the division of Germany into two separate states and the creation of the United
Nations. The Holocaust was caused by Nazi Germany's leader, Adolf Hitler.
Hitler pictured a utopia of Aryans. He considered Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled, non-Germans, and others of the like to be inferior to Germans. It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, six million of them were Jews. The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe. An estimated 1.1 million children died in the Holocaust. The Nuremberg Laws, issued on September 15, 1935, were designed to exclude Jews from public life, stripping Jews of their citizenship and prohibited marriages and extramarital sex between Jews and Gentiles. On October 8, 1941, Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp in Europe, opened. On January 16, 1942, Germany begins the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center, also starting the first mass deportation of Jews. Important people of the Holocaust include Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany during World War II, and Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank, one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. She gained fame with the publication of “The Diary of a Young Girl”, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. After liberation, many Jewish survivors feared to return to their former homes because of the anti semitism (hatred of Jews) that persisted in parts of Europe and the trauma
they had suffered, and some who returned home feared for their lives. The Holocaust had shaped the life of Jews because Adolf Hitler and his Nazis got defeated, and this changed the Jewish ways of life from being tortured and killed, to now living with freedom.