Causes |
| World War II |
| The Treaty of Versailles lay the war guilt exclusively on Germany and forced them to pay billions of dollars for all of the damage caused to the allied civilians. |
| Germany was also forced to give up many of it's colonies after the 1st world war. Many Germans were compelled to leave the homes they had made in various parts of the world. |
| The Treaty of Versailles |
| The Germans only signed because they had no choice. But the resentment was one of the reasons that WW II happened. |
| Need for Resources |
| Japan has very few deposits of the resources that any industrialized nation needs for production. |
| By the time it was able to act, much of the Pacific had already been colonized by the european nations. |
| Most of the resources from asia were shipped to fuel the industries of Europe and the United States. Japan was left out of the loop. |
| After Japan invaded the southern part of French IndoChina, President Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the U.S. This was intended to stop the import of oil to Japan. When the Netherlands and UK followed suit Japan had two choices. It could either comply with the U.S and leave china, or it could invade the oil fields of Indochina. |
| Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in hopes that the U.S would be down long enough for it to consoladate its holding in mainland Asia. This is what brought the United States into World War 2 |
| Expansionism |
| Italy entered the war with plans to expand it's holdings. He had designs on an area of southern France, Corsica, Malta, Tunisia, part of Algeria, an Atlantic port in Morocco, French Somaliland and British Egypt and Sudan. |