Causes leading up to WWII

  • Fascism

    Started a one-party dictatorship that was against democracy.
  • Japan rapidly growing

  • Hitler comes to power

    He was appointed chancellor and made the Reichstag Fire Decree which nullified civil liberties, putting him in a higher position.
  • Finding Lebensraum

    Hitler plans to invade Poland.
  • Axis Alliance forms

    Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance.
  • The end of WWII

    Hitler lost the war.

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