The Bombing of the Major Cities of Britain by Germany in 1940
The primary reason that this began was Hitler. This man had moved
through the ranks and had been acknowledged of his abilities as being
a true leader. It started with Hitler's aggressive foreign policies.
The first was he tore up the treaty of Versailles, as they were
totally blamed for the Great War, made to pay reparations, cut arm
forces to minimum, colonies and large areas of land (Rhineland) were
taken away. This seemed to be very unfair to the Germans. The second
was uniting all German-speaking people. During, the period after the
treaty, the Poles and Czechs were allowed to build their own nations
whereas Germany was prohibited to create the single German nation with
Austria (German speaking country). The final policy was aimed to give
the Germans Lebensraum, translated as living space. He felt that
Germany was overcrowded and did not have enough food and raw
materials. His plan was to expand to the east.
In order to achieve these policies, a lot of military action was
needed to take place and as they were restricted to the bare minimum
amount of soldiers, they were in no position to attack neighbouring
countries. So Hitler decided to rearm his forces in secrecy. By 1933,
he had already made plans to treble the size of his army to 300,000,
new air force Luftwaffe to build 1000 aircraft, barrack, airfields,
fortifications and even withdrew from the Genevadisarmament conference
and the league of nations. He later announced publicly that
conscription were to take place, until the army was of a size of
550,000. Britain and France protested half-heartedly about rearmament,
but many people thought some of the terms of the Treaty had been too
harsh on Germany, and that Germany had the right to defend itself.
The next few steps that led to the war were when they occupied the
Rhineland and remilitarised it. Then the 1938 Munich appeasement that
stated that Italy, France, Britain and Germany would not go to war and