![]() ![]() Australia supported the declaration of war, as did the other British Dominions of Canada, South Africa, India and New Zealand. As a result Germany pushed on unstopped until Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, despite promises that he would not, and Britain and France declared war. The Soviet Union (Russia) feared Germany, but had secretly made a peace pact with German nationalist leaders in return for some of the ‘spoils’ when Germany invaded other territories. The United States was isolationist and did not want to get involved. Australia backed Britain’s attempts at appeasement. The main European powers, Britain and France, saw some justice in Hitler’s claims, and were prepared to appease him to avoid another terrible world conflict. The Japanese were granted control over some of these areas.įrom the moment Adolf Hitler gained control of Germany in 1936 he implemented a policy of regaining lost territory, resources and people, and secretly rearming Germany. This included German colonies in New Guinea and the Pacific. New countries were formed by carving up the old empires. These treaties stressed that Germany had caused the war and demanded that the defeated nations must disarm, pay reparations for the damage caused by the war, and lose territory and resources. ![]() There were four other treaties signed with Germany’s allies: Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (mainly Turkey). The main treaty was the Treaty of Versailles, between the Allies and Germany. A series of treaties were signed as part of the peace process. The causes of the Second World War can be traced back to the end of the First World War. Why were nations that had suffered so much barely 20 years earlier prepared to start this suffering all over again? This was only 20 years after the ‘war to end all wars’, the Great War of 1914–1918. In September 1939 the major European powers of Britain and France went to war against Germany. ![]()
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