Twenty years after the end of 1st World War, the II World War began in 1939. It was a tragic war that pushed humanity into a trough of destruction.
The causes of II World War we the following:
- The abusive conditions of the treaty of Versailles denied Germany colonies and caused great harm to its trade and commerce. To get a revenge for this insult. Germany got the opportunity against the Allies as soon as possible, and the war started.
- The power of the dictators like Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy strengthened the conditions of World War.
- The League of Nations could not succeed in its objective. For this reason the international peace and security was broken and the situation of war was created.
- Increasing imperialistic aspirations of Japan, Italy and Germany, created the atmosphere of the second World War.
- Due to the mutual hatred of nations, no treaty on any aspect of disarmament could be reached by America, Soviet Russia and many other nations. As a result, rearmament started.
- In place of international interest, most countries adopted nationalism, which caused international security to be dissolved and the conditions of war were created.
- Due to the appeasement policy of Britain towards Germany the confidence of dictators was increased and due to this policy, Austria’s invasion, violation of Czechoslovakia, military action in the Rhineland, etc. created a launchpad for II World War.
- Hitler benefitted from the dissatisfaction of minority caste against the treaty of Versailles. He negotiated western powers and occupied Austria and Sudetanland and invaded Poland which led to the beginning of II World War.
- Disillusionment ended in nations as a result of economic crisis and they got engaged in arms race.
- The division of the world into two factions also proved to be responsible for World War-II. On the one hand Germany, Italy and Japan were never satisfied and on the other hand the Allies, such as Britain, France, the Soviet Union and America, formed an organization together.
Results (effects of II World War) : This World War started in 1939 and lasted for 6 years.
The results (effects) of this World War are the following :
- America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6th August, 1945 and Nagasaki on 9th August 1945. Due to this massacre the nuclear era started.
- After II World War, the world was divided into two ideologies—communism and democracy.
- Germany was divided into two parts. Communist economy was established in eastern Germany with democratic republic. In western Germany the capitalist economy was established with the federal Republic.
- Control of the pubic’s powers and the need for action in the interest of the state started the establishment of all authoritarian rule by abolishing true democracy.
- The world’s leadership went into the hands of two superpowers, United States of America and Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia began to implement the communist system and the US adopted the capitalist and democratic system.
- The Cold War started with allegations on two factions of two superpowers (America and Soviet Russia) and anti-political propaganda.
- African-Asian nations followed the policy of non-alignment and kept themselves separate from the superpowers.
- Having strengthened the feeling of nationalism, many countries became independent from Britain’s occupation and the colonial era ended.
- On October 24, 1945, the United Nations Organization was formed to protect mankind from future wars.
- With the progress made in the field of scientific field, the countries with similar ideologies developed various organizations and tried for development.
