Basic causes of world war 2

1. Causes of
World War II
Presented by: Ayesha Qadeer

2. Western Democracies
 In 1919, Britain , France and US were major world
powers
 But striving as world war 1 caused a lot of destruction
 Soldiers needed jobs
 1920, Locarno treaty was signed in which German
borders were fixed
 1928, Kellogg Briand Pact was signed, which limited
the development of armaments
 US was major economic power at that time but in 1929,
economic condition got worst and they faced Great
Depression

3. Great Depression
 The great depression devastated morale of
the people
 It led to extremist political parties
 US stock market crashed
 Marxist ideologies were also emerging and
getting prominence
 Rise of poverty
 Unemployment

4. Weimar Republic
 Due to treaty of Versailles, Germans were also discontented
 Germans blamed their leaders for accepting the worst clauses of
treaty.
 Democratic ideals were abhorred.
 Kaiser Wilhelm II stepped down
 1921, Hitler headed Nationalist socialist German workers
 1923, inflation went high
 1925, Mien Kampf was published
 1933 Hitler was appointed as the chancellor of Germany
 Rise of Nazism, Supremacist approach
 He started re-militarizing Germany

6. Rise of Fascism in Italy
 Italy’s economic condition was worst too
 Soldiers were returning from war
 Taxes were high
 Trade was slow
 1919, Benito Mussolini gathered unhappy
Italians and war veterans to form Fascist party
 1925, Fascist gained control of the Italy by
using force

7. Lenin to Stalin
 Lenin Died in 1929
 Stalin took his place
 He was an extremist leader
 Dictatorship approach
 Killed everyone who came in his way
 Under Stalin, the government used propaganda,
censorship, and terror to establish a totalitarian state.
 Formation of a new upper class
 Power was not in the hand of the common men

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