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Old 03-27-2006, 08:39 PM
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Default no really 'WHY' did WW2 start

why did WW2 start was it a dissagreement or was it over resorces, power over wealth or race, religion and i really want to no the straight truth coz my teacher kill me if i havent done my project...coz all he does is talk
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Old 03-28-2006, 08:50 AM
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This is Encyclopedia Britannica's account of how World War II began:

By the early part of 1939 the German dictator Adolf Hitler had become determined to invade and occupy Poland. Poland, for its part, had guarantees of French and British military support should it be attacked by Germany. Hitler intendedto invade Poland anyway, but first he had to neutralize the possibility that the Soviet Union would resist the invasion of its western neighbour. Secret negotiationsled on August 23–24 to the signing of the German–Soviet Nonaggression Pact in Moscow. In a secret protocol of this pact, the Germans and the Soviets agreed that Poland should be divided between them, with the western third of the country goingto Germany and the eastern two-thirds being taken over by the U.S.S.R.

Having achieved this cynical agreement, the other provisions of which stupefied Europe even without divulgence of the secret protocol, Hitler thought that Germany could attack Poland with no danger of Soviet or British intervention and gave orders for the invasion to start on August 26. News of the signing, on August 25, of a formal treaty of mutual assistance between Great Britain and Poland (to supersede a previous though temporary agreement) caused him to postpone the start of hostilities for a few days. He was still determined, however, to ignore the diplomatic efforts of the western powers to restrain him. Finally, at 12:40 PM on Aug. 31, 1939, Hitler ordered hostilities against Poland to start at 4:45 the next morning. The invasion began as ordered. In response, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany on September 3, at 11:00 AM and at 5:00 PM, respectively. World War II had begun.

The root cause of the war, though, was the fact that Adolf Hitler was deranged and planned world conquest as well as the extermination of Jews and other groups. It took war-weary Europe a while to come to its senses, but eventually most countries worldwide realized that Hitler had to be stopped.
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