How Did Germany Cause Ww2

World War II was one of the bloodiest events in the history of the world and it had made Hitler one of the world’s most infamous people ever, but Germany was certainly not the only cause for World War II. The Western European power France provoked Germany to lash out against the rest of the world.
France has been a world power since Europe became the world center of powers. Led by their president, Charles de Gaulle, France did little to help the Allies resist the Axis Powers which they had provoked to wrath. France was mostly taken by Germany during WWII as they were one of the first targets of Germany. They had recently fought in WWI and as we shall see, were very eager for Germany to pay reparations for the war. Before the war, France
France only reluctantly reduced the fines on Germany and their occupation did not stop until WWII began.(look up citation in book). The Treaty of Versailles also reduced Germany’s army to a fraction of its previous strength. All these things primed Germany to be taken by the Nazis. Hitler capitalized on the way the Allies oppressed Germany and this oppression was largely led by France. Woodrow Wilson predicted this in 1917 when he said “It must be a peace without victory… Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor’s terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress,at an intolerable sacrifice and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only peace between equals can last.” It is because the peace established by the Treaty of Versailles was not peace between equals, it could not last more than a few years. After those few years, the Nazis rose against the suppression of France and against all of Europe. After they essentially started the war, France did very little to actually help fight it , having been invaded immediately by