Germany should be responsible for the outbreak of WWII? Do you agree?

Explain your
answer.

Answer: Yes.

Germans did not admit the failure in the WWI. They believed that they were betrayed by
some Jews and the Weimar Republic. They waited for the opportunity to make a comeback.
Therefore, when Hitler promised to make Germany powerful again, the Germans turned to
support his aggression policy and this lead to the war.

Hitler had long planned the war since he was in jail in 1925. In his autobiography, ‘Mein
Kampf’, he had expressed the idea of regaining what Germany had lost and making
Germany strong again.

Answer: No.

The Paris Peace Conference did not treat Germany fairly. The signing of the Treaty of
Versailles was no better than a ‘diktat agreement’, as the Germans called it.

In order to resist the spread of communism to the western part of Europe by the Soviet
Union, Britain and France adopted appeasement policy toward Germany. This policy
encouraged Hitler to further invade other countries, such as the Anschluss with Austria, the
remilitarization of Rhineland and the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Hitler believed these
powers would satisfy all his wants only if he did not wage any war.

The Soviet Union should play a part of the responsibility for the encouraging Germany to
wage war too. Similar to the British and the French governments did, it tried to satisfy
Hitler’s want so that the latter would turn to against Britain and France. This could be seen
in the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and the division of Poland.

Britain and France should be responsible for the outbreak of the WWII? Do you agree?
Explain your answer.

Answer: Yes. The British and the French governments adopted appeasement policy towards
Hitler’s ambition. Their tolerance to Hitler’s ambition, such as Hitler’s remilitarization of
Rhineland in 1936, forcing Austria and accept a union with Germany in March, 1938 and
occupying Sudetenland in September, 1938, encouraged Hitler to further expand his plan
and thus started the WWII. Hitler believed that these two governments would satisfy all his
wants at whatever cost to maintain a peaceful relationship with Germany. Therefore, after
occupying the whole Czechoslovakia, she began to extend his claws to Poland on 1st
September, 1939, betting that Britain and France would tolerate his invasion one more time.
This miscalculation, we may conclude, was actually facilitated by Britain and France’s
appeasement policy. To conclude, Britain and France should be responsible for the outbreak
of the WWII.

French government’s improper treatment to the defeated countries, especially to Germany

made the latter decide to take revenge.