What Really Started World War 2? Europe’s Road to War, 1918–1939

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  @MohdRaish-v1c · 3 days ago

  You made something special here.

• JA

  @JAMAICADOCK · 1 day ago

  WW2 started not because of Hitler's invasion of Poland, the realpolitik was the Soviet/ German Non Aggression Pact.  Once Hitler allied with the communist superpower, conservative elements in the West began to see Hitler not as a bulwark against communism, but an ally of communism. which meant the appeasers began to lose the argument within conservative circles.

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  @lightstone495 · 4 days ago

  The major players in WWII (along with their minor allies) (1) Nazi Germany; (2) Soviet Russia; (3) Imperial Japan; and (4) the U.S.-British coalition all had one thing in common -- they sought to avoid avoid a war on two fronts (literally or figuratively), and they sought to have their major adversary have to fight a war on two fronts.  Germany tried to get Japan to attack Russia from Russia's east.  Germany used u-boats to create a second front from the east of Britain.  Russia continually pressured the British-U.S. coalition to attack Germany from the east of Germany.  Japan hoped Stalin would join forces with (or at least give aid) to help Mao fight the Chinese nationalists from the east of China.  Japan also hoped (in vain, as it turned out) that the U.S. would expend more resources against Hitler than against them.  That is why they held off attacking America until Hitler promised to declare war on America if Japan and America were at war.  Hitler kept THIS  promise (altho keeping promises wasn't exactly his thing) because he was hoping that if he lured Japan into war against America, they would also wage war against America's ally (at that time) Russia.

• KB

  @KBK-Valhalla · 3 days ago

  The Ai reader is not working and it’s got a ton of errors

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• RI

  @rickmills4801 · 10 days ago

  I don&apos;t even need to watch the vid to answer that one!<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; WWII started because the Allies listened to the French in concluding WW1. &nbsp;The pettiness of the terms of surrender sowed the bitter seeds of vengeance in the remains of the German Nation.

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• PE

  @peterjones4180 · 7 days ago

  Counterintuitively, it was the Soviets who started WW2 both in Europe and in the Pacific.<br>Its was the Soviet strategy to use Hitler to start &nbsp;another war in Europe replicating WW1, in order to exhaust those nations again both economically and militarially.<br>This strategy was designed to allow the Soviets to invade Europe at the time when the West was at its weakest, replicating the conditions which prevailed in 1919-1920 when the Soviets attempted to invade Europe but unexpectedly failed because the Poles managed by sheer good luck to defeat them.<br>The Soviets assisted Hitler into power by ordering the socialists under Soviet control to vote for Hitler in the election that saw him elected.<br>To this end the Soviets trained the Luftwaffe, The Wehrmacht, and the Kriegsmarine in secret bases in the Soviet union, they combined this with the supply of huge amounts of resources, to allow the build up of the German armed forces.<br>The Soviet invasion of Finland, Poland and the Baltic States, were all steps toward that outcome.<br>The Soviets used their agents of influence in Japan to persuade the Japanese, to attack the U.S and British Commonwealth holdings in the Pacific.<br>When that attack resulted in a U.S declaration of War and &nbsp;lend lease shipments to the Soviets resulted, the Soviets secretly diverted essential technology from those shipments to JAPAN !, while it was fighting the U.S and British Commonwealth forces.

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• PA

  @paulzellman9632 · 4 days ago

  The West stories tellers are easily forgetting that Germany in Feb 1934 signed with then fascist Poland a 10 years friendship agreement.<br> WHAT HAPPENEDN THEN IN SEPT 1939? &nbsp;EXPLAIN PLEASE.

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• MI

  @michaelobrien5964 · 6 days ago

  Good narative history. &nbsp;But, AI voice - &nbsp;gave it away and good but irrelevant &nbsp;images to the story, makes a good history lesson irritating to those that know this and bafflinfg to students who don&apos;t. Also for the latter, no maps &nbsp;at all, poor.

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  @Doc.NavyCorpsman.HM3 · 4 days ago

  AI TRASH