Causes of World War II
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The causes of World War II have been given considerable attention by historians. The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, the subsequent decla
During the Battle of Westerplatte, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein attacks Westerplatte at the start of the war, September 1, 1939
The destroyer USS Shaw explodes during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
"The Big Four" made all the major decisions at the Paris Peace Conference (from left to right, David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, Woodrow Wilson of the U.S.)
The Japanese march into Zhengyangmen, Beijing, after they captured the city in July 1937
Article 231, often known as the war guilt clause, was the opening article of the reparations section of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War between the German Empire and the Alli
Avocourt, 1918, one of the many destroyed French villages, candidates for reconstruction funded by reparations
Norman Davis, one of the two authors of Article 231
Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau
Trains, loaded with machinery, deliver their cargo as reparation payment in kind.