kampf‚ Hitlers main aims of foreign policy were‚ to destroy the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany after its defeat in World War One‚ to unite all german speakers together in one country‚ and to expand eastwards into the East (Poland‚ Russia) to gain Lebensraum for Germany. Given Germany’s weaknesses in 1933‚ Hitler realised that he had to move cautiously. The German army had been limited to 100‚000 by the treaty of Versailles‚ the economy was still in depression‚ Germany had no allies and was surrounded
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Hitler was because of how much they hated the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler promised Germany he would tear it up. The Treaty of Versailles was a signed agreement between the powers. This was not popular with the German people‚ and put the country into an economic depression. Germans felt like they had been stabbed in the back because they were betrayed by their government. The German people loved Hitler’s decision to tear up the Treaty of Versailles if he came to power because they thought it would lead
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World war two taking place in 1939 is a turning point in history. The war happened because of a combination of multiple factors. The growth of different forms of totalitarianism‚ the harshness of the Treaty of Versailles‚ the policies of nations‚ the world economic crisis and the failure of appeasement were the major causes. World war one from the beginning till the end engendered many transformations of the world. The outcomes were spectacularly heavy. The populations of the nations confronted
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causes were Hitler‚ the Treaty of Versailles‚ and the failure of the League of Nations. Hitler was the main cause of World War Two. In January 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. According to secondworldwar.co.uk “Hitler ordered the army to be trebled in size‚ from the 100‚000 man Versailles Treaty limit‚ to 300‚000 men by October of 1934” Hitler was expanding the army in order to invade other land. According to Biography.com “On
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best. The Big Four had come together in France to sign the Treaty of Versailles‚ officially ending the war in 1918. I agree with the statement that the Treaty of Versailles was ill-created‚ bringing about far more problems than it solved and later paving the road to World War II. Political‚ social‚ and economic issues arose due to it‚ and society was restless. Countless political problems were directly caused by the Versailles Treaty. The Big Four consisted of Prime Minister David Lloyd George
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Was Hitler to blame for WW2? (10 marks) Hitler’s aims were aggressive. He planned to destroy the treaty of Versailles‚ create a country of all German people and conquer land in Eastern Europe. But many other factors are thought to be the main reason war broke out in 1939. Hitler’s aims were aggressive and he made this aims very clear in his book ‘Mein Kampf’ (my struggle). To test the courage of the British and French to stand up to Hitler on an important matter of principle‚ Hitler announced
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One of the many ways Louis XIV gained loyalty from his subjects was the objects that he built for his people. The palace of Versailles was an important factor that made many nobles more loyal to the king. Built by Louis‚ the palace of Versailles was an enormous palace that housed over ten thousand people including nobles‚ Louis himself‚ and a staff of thousands. Versailles helped Louis by making the nobles power diminish while making his own power increase. He held ceremonies daily that reinforced
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how to combat the economic problem. His wife Marie Antoinette‚ didn’t help with the debt‚ but instead spent her time “ordering hundreds of gowns‚ trying out elaborate hairstyles and hosting lavish parties at her private retreat‚ Petit Trianon‚ on Versailles’ expansive grounds‚” (HowStuffWorks.com Contributors‚ 2014 )‚ which earned her the nickname Madame Deficit. Addition to the failing economy‚ France had problems with its estate-general‚ which basically separates the country in three parts: The clergymen
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country. These economic hardships kept becoming more of a major problem for the German government and public‚ leaving German people more and more desperate for help and change and even more vulnerable to manipulation. Factors such as the Treaty of Versailles and the betrayal many German people felt‚ the Weimar Republic and their failure to fix Germany’s economic problems and the Great depression and its effect on their people and the economy. These all opened gateways into power for a dictator who knew
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of the Treaty of Versailles‚ the failure of the League of Nations linked to the isolation of the US‚ appeasement introduced by the British Prime Minister in the year 1937 and the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed between Hitler and Stalin on the 28th of August 1938 . Hitlers foreign policy had a huge impact on the outbreak of World War II because of its expansionism policy and the fact that Hitler wanted a German Reich. Hitlers other aims consisted of revenge for the Treaty of Versailles‚ a rearmament and
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