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    How World War 2 Began



    A detailed explanation of the causes of the Second World War.

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    0:00 Intro
    2:17 Wilson’s New World
    21:09 The Spread of Extremism
    29:39 Fascism in Italy
    36:53 Hitler Takes Germany
    1:00:49 – Japan Takes Manchuria
    1:10:20 – Italy Takes Ethiopia
    1:19:47 – Germany Breaks the Treaty
    1:26:07 – The Symbolism of the Spanish Civil War
    1:29:17 – Japanese Militarism Spreads
    1:31:43 – Last Steps Before War
    1:48:57 – Conclusion

    Sources:

    Paris 1919 – Margaret MacMillan
    A History of Political Theory – George Sabine
    The Dark Valley – Piers Brendon
    The Road to War – Richard Overy
    Appeasement – Tim Bouverie
    The Third Reich in Power – Richard Evans
    Blood and Power – John Foot
    The Rising Sun – John Toland
    Adolf Hitler – John Toland
    The Coming of the Third Reich – Richard Evans
    The Spectre of War – Jonathan Haslam
    The Moralist – Patricia O’Toole
    The Age of Extremes – Eric Hobsbawm
    The Deluge – Adam Tooze
    Japan Prepares for Total War – Michael Banhart
    Oxford’s Fascism Reader – Ed. Roger Griffin
    The Origins of the First and Second World Wars – Frank McDonough
    The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered – Ed. Gordon Martel
    Europe – Norman Davies
    Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler
    Hitler’s Second Book – Adolf Hitler
    Documents on Nazism – ed. Jeremy Noakes & Geoffrey Pridham
    A History of the Twentieth Century – Martin Gilbert

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    1. @realryanchapman on

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    6. @deborahserafin8253 on

      Once you understand propaganda and know more about the history of propaganda, it's very easy to spot… This documentary skews widely left. It was first apparent with the "explanations" of fascism and right and left political movements. CLEARLY written by a very left leaning person/team. You don't have to do that. Most everyone agrees Hitler was a monster and his ambitions were insane. When you explain things in a documentary with a left or right skew, a lot of people will automatically not trust what you say. This is also why people no longer trust the news. You did your documentary a disservice.

    13. @elizabethvilamitjanacaball6507 on

      The spanish civil war started because general Francisco Franco (who shared a similar fascist ideology to Hitler) tried to overthrow a legitimate democratic government. He was unsuccessful because of the resistance of those who favored the spanish republic, which led to the civil conflict. The issue is that in Spain the dictator won the civil war, and submitted Spain to a fascist, opressive dictatorship until 1975, when he died of old age. He chose the line of monarchs that are still present in Spain today. Many right wing politicians and scholars refuse to acknowledge this attempt to overthrow the government as a cause for the war, but the facts still remain: the left wing, democratic government established in 1936 was legitimate, and later on that same year there was an attempt by a fascist group led by Francisco Franco to overthrow it, and it was the failure of the fascist group to occupy the teritory that started the civil war.

    15. @npg192 on

      All wars since ww1 and including it were bankers wars. The reasons are not seen by the masses. But the inception of the reserve banking system and subsequent world wars was no coincidence. Today's conflict is also a currency war as Russia look to dislodge US control of the world currency. A privilege they abuse and needs to be taken away from a spoilt brat. IMO they are the real reasons and their are other opinions but this guy imo is not on the money.

    18. @RealityLifeHumanity on

      The fundamentalism, the extremism, the censorship, the attempt to create “ministries of truth”, the arrest of political opposition!!!! Who are these the traits of???? The obvious left!!!!Communism and socialism only leads to corruption and bankruptcy!!!!!

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