What were the 9 causes that led to WW2?

What were the main causes of World War 2? This video explores the underlying (background) causes, as well as the immediate short-term triggers that caused the Second World War. The path to war with Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.

From the Nazi rise to power in 1933 until the outbreak of war in 1939, Hitler led Germany into a series of aggressive military actions, including seizing the Rhineland, the Anschluss with Austria, taking the Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia, and finally his invasion of Poland. Why did nobody stand up to Hitler through these early years of Nazi expansion?

This is the first of our documentary-style learning videos. Our World War II history playlist will feature numerous videos covering all aspects of the war, its causes, events and resolution.

[Baltimoreborn]

Thanks what a great video! History definitely repeats itself

[ralphbernhard]

*What connects the topic of this video, as "compartmentalized history", with the bigger overall European "picture"?*
It is "divide and rule" as THE "systems/strategies" tier of things...

Exemplary: When everybody started talking about Versailles as a "peace conference" back in the days following WW1, it allowed for narratives to take shape. These "narratives" then floated to the top of discussions and debates, books and documentaries, and became the way people started thinking at the time, and...more importantly, still think*** today.

Historians should stop talking about The Treaty of Versailles as a "peace conference" (name branding), but to start calling it out for what it was in terms of geopolitics and grand strategy: it was divide and rule/conquer *of and over* continental Europe, by the outside world powers, all imperialistic in nature, with a geographical advantage (Washington DC/London), using Paris as a continental foothold, or an "extension" of their own power. Such language abounds in the strategy papers of the true powers.
These powers favored Paris for this specific reason, regardless of what ideologues desired (Idealism is an '-ism' or ideology).
*Favoratism is a core technique used in a divide and rule strategy.*

The Fourteen Points were largely written by a "think tank", the New York based "Inquiry" group. As for Wilson, was he really that naive to think that the large and prominent forces of isolationism would not prevail, and lead to the USA/Washington DC not joining any collectivised system of security for the entire planet?
Was there really no "Plan B" in Washington DC?

Divide and rule as a strategy is elaborated in more detail in the comments thread under the Kaiser Wilhelm video of the "History Room" educational channel. Go to the other channel, select "latest comments" first (three little bars at the top of every comments section), and read as far back as desired. The "oh so fine" British Lordships thought they could play divide and rule/conquer games with the world, and in the end British citizens lost bigtime, as their own Lordships "...ran off with all the f%cking money..." (quote = George Carlin/ reality = tax havens). *Note that in an exchange based on observations (realism) and definitions, that these cannot be "countered" by an opinion or a personal standpoint.*

The answer to any observed divide and rule strategy is eventually going to be brute force. On a micro level, it will be some form of uprising or revolution. On the macro level (states/empires) it will be crises and war. If words no longer achieve the desired effects to oppose the actions by the psychopaths who have infiltrated positions of power (incl. our so-called "western liberal democracies"), and become uncompromising and start using bully tactics, the answer will be brute force. No system is going to "turn the other cheek" indefinitely.

No, this is not a "yet another conspiracy theory, " but elaborated and provided with sufficient evidence, and inductive/deductive reasoning on the other channel/video.
*Divide and rule/conquer is a strategy, not a conspiracy theory.*


***As a mixture of opinions, biases, emotions, analyses, assessments, etc. proclaimed in a multitude of books, documentaries, journals, essays, stories and...just about everything related to "compartmentalized history". In reality, how every individual "thinks" is not important: it is the *systems/strategies* tier of events which is the truly indicative tier.

[immibaloch]

GREAT VOICE.. PLZ UPLOAD VIDEO ABOUT CHINESE CIVIL WAR

[akandebusayo]

It really help me in my history in school.

[BatwalonUtube]

Great depression and inflation ran out of control??

[stormrider]

"The moment that [National Socialist] Germany revolted against the conception that production should be restricted in the interests of a few High Financiers, she created in the minds of all well-informed democrats the fear that Central Europe would break away together from the system of international finance." - William Joyce, "Twilight Over England", 1940

[VillagersedgeYT]

and yet people still blame others for pollitical game and no one makes connections to dictators