How did imperialism & nationalism contribute to World War 1 & World War 2?
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Most wars involve some variation of "I WANT what you have and I think I can get away with TAKING it" which is Imperialism. \n\nNationalism is the spin-doctoring brow-beating that ENABLES Imperialism\n\nNow do your OWN research for your take-home essay question as to WHY Hitler, Hirohito, Stalin, Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt (and the people who put them in power) roll the dice with OUR lives.
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1) The US government, despite its pledge of neutrality, extended a large amount of credit to Great Britain starting in 1940; the British used it to buy everything from guns and ammunition to merchant ships.  US merchant ships carried cargo to England before we were involved in the war (US merchant ships were also supplying Nazi Germany, but on a much smaller scale).  President Roosevelt persuaded Congress to approve the "Lend-Lease" program, in which we gave Britain about 100 old US Navy destroyers in exchange for leases on British territory in the Western Hemisphere.\n\n2) Hitler marched his troops into the Rhine, the Sudetenland, the rest of Czechoslovakia, and Austria over the protests of Britain, France, and the US.  On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, thereby starting WW2 in Europe.  The Poles fought valiantly against Hitler's forces; when they took refuge behind the Vistula River, and it seemed they could hold on until the arrival of the British and French, Stalin entered the war and invaded Poland from the east.  About 2 weeks later it was all over for the Poles.\nStalin also invaded Finland on the flimsy pretext of protecting his northern frontier.  The Finns, although outnumbered and outgunned, held off the Soviets for several months.\nJapan annexed Korea in 1910.  The militarists of Japan also invaded Manchuria (China) in 1933, trying to create what they called the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."  In their delirious minds, they thought that Asia would thrive if all of it was under their rule.  The rest of Asia disagreed.  Japanese brutality in Manchuria caused the US to enact a trade embargo against Japan.  The Japanese used the embargo as an excuse for the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, thereby precipitating America's entry into WW2.\n\n3) WW2 is thought of as "the good war" because in modern times, the difference between dictatorship and freedom was never so stark.  On one side were the Axis powers, odious dictatorships all, engaging in sneak attacks, breaking every treaty they signed, and trampling on the freedoms of the sovereign nations they invaded (not to mention those of their own people).  Arrayed against them were the Allies, consisting (mostly) of the democratically-run, freedom-loving nations of the world.  Hitler and Tojo thought that "Deutschland über Alles" and "Dai Nippon" would rule the world through their "Übermensch" and "Bushido" warriors.  But both of them underestimated the fury of aroused democracies.  To paraphrase Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack: "I fear that all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."  He was right.\nThe Soviets' entry on the Allied side of the war complicated the moral equation a bit.  They had a history of engineering mass repression, purges, and widespread starvation against their own people ever since the Bolshevik triumph in the Russian Revolution of 1918.  Stalin was quite happy to help Hitler carve up eastern Europe when it suited his purposes.  And the Soviets, despite warnings that the Nazis were preparing to invade Russia, supplied the Nazis with much-needed food and fuel right up to the day of the Nazi invasion in 1940.
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Japan invaded China in 1936 some say that was the start of World War Two.  The war in Europe started when Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and France and England declared war on Germany.\n\nThe cause of the 2nd World War was the treaty that ended the first world war.
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WW1 was about world leadership with japan so we are told and WW2 was about Hitler
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The underlying causes of World War I were the intense nationalism that permeated Europe throughout the 19th and into the 20th century, the political and economic rivalry among nations, and the military buildup that occurred after 1871, when Germany emerged as a great world power.\nThe assasination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand was just a match to the powder keg.
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Militarism, Adolf Hitler want to re-arm Germany, Italy looking outward for conquest, Japan with recent naval victory against Russia in Vladivostok believes it can take the world as it had humiliate the Russian giant.\n\nAgression, believing that after WW1, no one wants another war, it can agress and bully neigbors, Germany start annexing Austro-Hungary, Japan use Manchuria as an excuse to be in China, Italy due to lack of any natural resource start venturing into Africa.\n\nNationalism, German leader lead the people believe that the suffering they have was a result of their defeat and was able to raise the nationalism spirit of the people, Japan with its emperor regard as the son of heaven, ralied the people to believe that they are no longer a small nation, they can anyone as they had shown in defeating the Russian navy. The Italian was ralied together to avoid a civil war.
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imperialism and capitalism
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hi the politial reason for world war to was that germany was getting deapeper and deaper into dept because of the money it had to pay back to england and france because of the first world war. when the plan falied in the usa to get germany right again because of the stock market crash the germans blamed the jews and saw the answer in expantion. this is what hitler called lebons ral or living space. he invaded a few countries but no on cared untill belgium a small country needed to be crossed through to take tettories in france back that were german untill the end of world war 1 when france took them. so when belgium said no to german troops crossing there lines germany invaded anyway and as a result ww2 started. \nsorry about spelling t
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Was there a WW1? Did WW2 follow? Think about it
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Well, let's say country a and country b decide to go to war with each other. Let's also pretend that coutry a has an alliance with coutries c, d, and e and that country b has an alliance with coutries f, g, and h. Since countries a and b are at war, coutries c-h have to help their respective allies to keep the alliance intact. (This is actually how WWI got started.) Does that make sense?
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As stated above Nationalism isn't a political system. It is an attitude or political philosophy that can drive a government. While nationalistic tendancies can manifest in a post war situation, it is more present in pre-war situations. The most obvious example would be the rise in nationalist policies in Germany and Russia before WWII. After WWI the world community put harsh sanctions on Germany as punishment for causing the war. This led Germans to feel resentment to the rest of the world as their economy was in ruin and their military growth was extremely regulated. This climate allowed a leader like Hitler to rise. Hitlerwas able to tap in to the anti global community feelings of the Germans. They became attracted to his rhetoric of the return of the strong German empire and called for Germans to become a world dominating super power that would last 1000 years. Another example would be the actions and attitudes of the small Balkin countries pre WWI\nYou can also see nationalist tendancies in the American foriegn policy immediately after 9/11. Our feelings were that we needed to care for our own national interestes above those of the world as a whole. This is evident in the pre-emptive strike in Iraq despite foriegn power objection. Rightfully or wrongfully so, our government took actions that (as argued) had our national interests in mind.
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The Marshall Plan:  after World War 2 the united states implemented a plan to help and support the defeated enemies get back on their feet.  This helped keep festering resentment for having to pay reparations from occurring in these lands (which is what led to WW2 from WW1)
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here is a link that will help u http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_I
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World War I\nWEB LINKS\n\nPRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS.\n\nFantastic Resources.\nhttp://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-WorldWar1.htm\n\nWorld War I\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWusaG.htm\n\nAlthough the USA had strong ties with Britain, Wilson was concerned about the large number of people in the country who had been born in Germany and Austria. Other influential political leaders argued strongly in favour of the USA maintaining its isolationist policy. This included the pacifist pressure group, the American Union Against Militarism.\n\nhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook38.html\n\nRead and listen to stories of the War from the people who lived it. Explore diaries, letters, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, photos and keepsakes.\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/\n\nhttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/\n\nhttp://www.wfa-usa.org/new/links.cfm\n\nAn Internet History of The Great War\n\nhttp://www.worldwar1.com/\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Here are a couple:\n\n1. Development of Canadian nationalism:\n\nDespite all of the people that Canada lost in the First World War, there were many battles in which Canadians fought valiantly. Canadians became known for their bravery and strength, and we began to see ourselves as a nation separate from Britain, capable of accomplishing our own goals. Specifically, you should look into the battle at Vimy Ridge and Ypres.\n\n2. The war caused women's roles to start to change. Look for facts about:\n\n-More Canadian women in the workforce.\n-The Canadian suffragist movement.\n\nPerhaps you might also want to say something about how the war was a pre-cursor to the Roaring Twenties in Canada, or how the war helped us to industrialize.
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World War I: 1914-1918\nWorld War II: 1939-1945
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Greed and selfishness are the causes.  What else can be the causes?  Leaders of those European countries want more land and money.  They want only their people to be wealthy and in power.  They want to use all the other people that they took advantage of to make more wealth and power for themselves.  (Hey, don't forget Japan was also involved in WWII.)\n\nThe consequences of those two wars are a lot of hatred between groups of people.  No one will ever forget the loss of a loved one being killed or the house that they've worked for all their lives being bombed and gone within seconds.  Wars destroy futures within seconds.  When stuff like this happens, some people don't forget which group of people or country did it to them.  So they teach their children and grandchildren how to hate the other group of people.  So much hatred in this world came from wars, esp. WWI & WWII.