What caused World War II?

Who was the leading cause for World War II?

By: Michael Anderson
Background

World War II came twenty years

after World War I

Started in 1939 and ended 6

years later in 1945

It was the deadliest and most

widespread war in history

It involved more than 30

countries

More 50 million civilian and

military deaths

Countries were destroyed and

changed forever

Hitler wanted more land, especially from

the east

He then took Austria and Czechoslovakia

without a ght

Great Britain and France didn't want

bloodshed so they didn't act

After he took Austria and Czechoslovakia

he wanted more land from the east
Adolf Hitler
Invasion of Poland

On September 1, 1939 Adolf Hitler invaded Poland

Hitler wanted to take it without a ght with Britain and France

Germany didn't want to seem like the aggressor do he made

Poland look like the aggressor

Heinrich Himmler came up with a plan called operation Himmler

The plan was to take a random prisoner and dress him in a Poland
uniform and shot him

The plan worked and they took over Poland without a ght
America

On December 7, 1941 Japan

made an attack on America at
Pearl Harbor

This attack thrusted America

into the Second World War