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=Causes of WW2=

=Find quality source on these items:= =The failure of the Treaty of Versailles, How the Great Depression contributed to WW2, The Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, The failure of the League of Nations, The Appeasement Crisis of 1936-939 (Look for The Re-militarization of the Rhineland, The Annexation of Austria, Appeasement in Czechoslovakia), The Nazi-Soviet Pact. Hitler is mean.= Ryan Headline: The Rise of the Nazis!!! Link: []

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a.One of the main reasons Hitler used to come to power was the fact that he brought the Germans out of the depression to some extent. They rose a lot faster than a lot of other countries even though they had to pay debt because of the Treaty of Versailles. b. Hitler was a very persuasive man, he used persuasion to his advantage by proclaiming that Germans were superior to other nations. This brought a lot of pride back to a country that had just lost a world war.

c. The Nazi party ran in an election, but lost to president Hindenburg. They were gaining popularity which led to their rise in power.
====**3.** Why I Chose this Source I chose this source because it is a reliable source for information and explains the timeline very clearly. It explains how Hitler used the economy to bring himself to power and how persuasive he was. My mom's side of my family is from Germany and my grandparents moved to Canada during world war II. They told me that Hitler wanted too much power, but that people shouldn't judge Germany on his actions because it was the German rebels that help bring Hitler down.====

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 * __How the Great Depression contributed to WW2.__**

1. Quality of the source: This link is a good quality source because the writer backed up his ideas with facts and the concequences that followed.

2. Most important informational aspects of this source: a) It headlines all the major influences that contributed to the war. b) It backs up all of its headlines with examples of what happend before the war. c) One of the biggest influences that led to the war was the government and politics. This source explains what the leaders could have been thinking in the 1930's.

3. Why I chose this source: I chose this source because it explaned the causes of World War II very well. It used dates to give the reader a better idea of around what time this was going. This site explans the realationship between England and France leading up to the war, my whole family is from England and my parents have stories that their parents and grandparents told them about the war and the effects it had on where the lived and what quality of life they had.

__Great Causes Of World War II: The failure of the treaty of versailles__ [] 1. Quality Of Website. Joshua Croft

I believe after reading through this website that it depicts the information accordingly and accurately explaining; The Treaty of Versailles, Hitler's actions, Failure of appeasement, and the failure of the League Of Nations.

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A. When the Treaty Of Versailles was introduced Germany could not afford to pay the 6,600 million for repays to other countries who participated in World War II.

B. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Immediately after he began to build up Germany's military force, Also promising germans that he would Rip up the Treaty Of Versailles.

C. The League Of Nations was introduced in 1919 To try and help keep world peace among countries. Although during the 1920's many countries entered a world wide depression one country hit hard was Japan, Japan then invaded Manchuria an area full of rich minerals, the Japanese asked the league for help. The league then ordered the Japanese to evacuate manchuria, without taking notice the Japanese continued they're invasion.

3. This website was chosen specifically due to the accuracy i found given on the dates and time of the occurances to the reasons for World War II.

__**Consequences of the failure of the Treaty of Versailles**__ __**Headline**__ August 13, 1922

__**Link:**__ __**[]**__ __**1. Quality of source**__ The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851.

__**2. Most important informational Aspects of this source**__ a. People were suffering in their economic life in their prestige by their failure to ratify the Treaty of Versailles an enter the League of Nations. b. They must've steped a little bit further if they were interested in economic settlemnts, would be necessary to throw the weight of their influence to the adoption of political measures which will permit the adjustment of economic problems. c. The world had become an economic unit and so interdependent that one portion cannot function properlu if another portion is out of order. Christian Rocha.

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====__**On 23 August, 1939, the world was shocked when, suddenly, Russia and Germany signed a 'Non-aggression Pact'. **__ ====

==== [|http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII8.htm] ==== ====1. **Quality of source** ==== ====This website has many political cartoons for sources, they help u paint a picture of the event and the feelings that revolved around it ==== ====2. **Most Important Informational Aspects of This Source** ==== ====a. ** Why did Anglo-Soviet Talks Fail? [ SCAB ] ** ====
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** S ****uspicion** a. Chamberlain did not trust Stalin, who was a Communist and a dictator. In particular, he would not ever have allowed Russia to control Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. b. The Russians thought Britain wanted to trick them into war against Germany. c. Poland did not trust that the Russians (who wanted to send troops into Poland), once in, would ever leave.

** C ****hoice** a. Britain could not send troops to fight in Poland, so if Stalin supported Britain, he would end up fighting a war in Poland on Britain’s behalf. b. On the other hand, Hitler was promising him peace, half of Poland and a 'sphere of influence' over eastern Europe.

** A ****ppeasement** <span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">After Munich, Stalin was convinced that Britain would break its promise to Poland. He was convinced that Britain would leave Russia fighting Hitler alone.

<span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">** B ****ritain delayed** <span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm; text-indent: 0mm;">a. At first, Lord Halifax refused Stalin’s offer of a meeting. <span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 1mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm; text-indent: 0mm;">b. When the British sent an official, he could not make any decisions. Stalin got fed up with British delay. ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">b. ** Why did the Nazi-Soviet Pact Happen? ** [ THUG ]  ====

<span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; margin: 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">** T ****ime to prepare for war** <span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; margin: 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">Stalin said: ‘We got peace for our country for 18 months, which let us make military preparations’.

<span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; margin: 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">** H ****ope to gain** <span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; margin: 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">‘Stalin was sure that Russia could only gain from a long war in which Britain, France and Germany exhausted themselves.’

<span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; margin: 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">** U ****nhappy with Britain** <span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; margin: 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">Stalin was insulted by Britain’s slowness to negotiate, and did not trust Britain. When the Anglo-Soviet alliance failed [** SCAB **], he turned to Germany.

<span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; margin: 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 0mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">** G ermany ** <span style="background-color: #ccffff; border-bottom: 1px solid; border-left: 1px solid; border-right: 1px solid; font-family: Arial Narrow; margin: 0px 1.7pt; padding-bottom: 1mm; padding-left: 1mm; padding-right: 1mm; padding-top: 0mm;">Hitler wanted the alliance because only Russia could keep Britain’s promise to defend Poland. He believed that, if he got a promise of peace with Russia, Britain would be forced to back down over Poland and Danzig.

====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">3. **Why I Chose this Source** ==== ====<span style="font-size: 1.06em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">a. this was the best website i could find on the topic of **The Nazi-Soviet Pact** ====

b. clearly and neatly laid out.
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Andrew Brown ====__**The Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party**__====

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A) Adolf joined the German Worker's Party in 1919 at the age of thirty. He began a frenzied attempt to expand the party, and have it be successful. As they started to hold more meetings and advertise, more and more people started to attend and join. At the meetings, Hitler became the main attraction, speaking on the Treaty of Versailles and blaming the Jews for Germany's many problems.

B) Hitler took charge of the party propaganda during the early 1920, and began recruiting young men he knew in the German Army. Army Captain Ernst Röhm, a new party membed, aided in recruiting, and played a pivotal role in Hitlers rise to power. Many alienated, maladjusted soldiers and ex-soldiers living in Munich thirsting for adventure quickly joined the German Worker's Party in growing numbers

C) In February of 1920, Adolf urged the party to hold its first mass meeting, but met strong opposition from leading party members who thought it was too early and were afraid it would be disrupted by Marxists. He arrived and was greeted by two thousand members, with communists scattered through out the crowd. A shouting match between opposing party members broke out, but was quickly drown out by applause. Hitler continued to outline the party platform, and with each point spoken he was met with a roar of approval. Hitler then realized that a symbol was required for his party. He chose the swastika, as he had seen this symbol as a boy in ruins, and when he attended church. Hitler also changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) called for short, Nazi.

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I chose this source because I wanted to learn more about the birth of the Nazi Party, and learn more about Hitler's political stances and views.

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Anschluss (The annexation of Austria during WW2)

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 * a. Nazi Germany annexed Austria on the 12 of March, 1938. **
 * b. After the annexation, Austria did not become a full sovereign nation until 1955, and did not have independence from Germany until 1945 after the end of the second World War. **
 * c. There was a planned referendum for a vote on the issue of Austria remaining independent or being annexed into part of Germany. However the Austrian Nazi Party executed a coup d'etat of Austria's state institutions in Vienna, and canceled the referendum before it took place. **

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Wikipedia is usually a good source. The causes of ww2 Spencer Rae Website [] The quality of the source is good because it a very legit site everything on it is basically in the text books The most important aspects It has everything from the treaty of Versailles to the failure of the League of Nations Why I chose this source I chose this source because it was the first one that popped out at me and the name sounded legit The treaty of Versailles In 1919 Lloyd George of England and Orlando of Italy Clemenceau of France Woodrow Wilson from the US met to discuss on how Germany was to be made to pay for the damage ww1 had caused Germany was expecting a treaty based on Wilsons 14 points and were not happy with the terms of the treaty however the had no choice but to sign it    The terms of the treaty War guilt clause – Germany should accept the blame for starting ww1 Reparations – Germany had to pay 6600 million pounds for the damage caused by the war Disarmament – Germany was only allowed to have a small army and six naval ships no tanks no air force and no submarines were allowed the Rhineland area was to be de militarised Territorial clauses – land was taken from Germany and given to other countries Anschluss (union with Austria) was forbidden The German people were unhappy about the treaty and thought it was too harsh. Germany could not afford to pay the money and during the 1920s the people in Germany were poor. There were not many jobs and the price of food and basic goods was high. People were dissatisfied with the government and voted to power a man who promised to rip up the Treaty of Versailles. His name was Adolf Hitler