Question:
Next term we're starting WWII and I've heard that there have been many ideas about how it started. Is that true? If so does one of them weighted with more fact and proof than the others? I would really like to know...thankyou!!
Answer:
WW2 officially began when Hitler invaded Poland. France and UK were bound to Poland by a defense treaty to support Poland. However, they sat back adn watched as Poland was invaded and then carved up by Germany and its unlikely ally, Russia.
The Germans then turned their attention to the Western Front. Much of Europe fell under Nazi sway except Britain which remained free thanks to winning the Battle of Britain.
Britain fought Germany in North Africa and Germany invaded Russia, but the war truly went global when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Hitler declared war on the US in a show of solidarity with the Japanese.
The cause of WW1 is a classic question in historiography, but i think the whens and whys of WW2 are fairly well agreed upon.
Britain and France declared war on Germany on Sept. 3 and this is usually taken as the beginning of the war, though actually Germany attacked Poland on Sept 1 with no declaration.
Hope this helps.
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