USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

[SOURCES]
What was Hitler angry about, which led to World War II?

(A) ** He thought the sanctions placed against Germany during WWI were unfair.

(B) Hitler believed that too many Jews were surrounding him.

(C) Hitler felt that people were not taking his leadership seriously.

(D) Hitler wanted to promote his Nazi party, which no one respected.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Economic distress and seething resentment of the treaty within Germany helped fuel the rise of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, as well as World War II.

Concept note-2: -Obsessed with the idea of the superiority of the “pure” German race, which he called “Aryan, ” Hitler believed that war was the only way to gain the necessary “Lebensraum, ” or living space, for the German race to expand.

Concept note-3: -The treaty gave some German territories to neighbouring countries and placed other German territories under international supervision. In addition, Germany was stripped of its overseas colonies, its military capabilities were severely restricted, and it was required to pay war reparations to the Allied countries.

Concept note-4: -The Treaty of Versailles related to establishing the conditions of peace with Germany. The major sanctions imposed by the treaty included the disarmament of Germany, payment of very large reparations to the allies, and demilitarization of the Rhineland.

Concept note-5: -The war guilt clause of the treaty deemed Germany the aggressor in the war and consequently made Germany responsible for making reparations to the Allied nations in payment for the losses and damage they had sustained in the war.