Causes of World War 2 World War 2 Facts Information and Facts on the Great War Author: Will Harney Published: Nov 29th, 2012 World War 2 broke into open conflict due to the military aggression of Germany and Japan, when Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and Japan struck against China in 1937. The causes of World War 2, and background to these events is considerably complex, and it is important to understand the key facts and situations that lead to global war. Fundamentally, the war has its roots in the military expression of the political philosophies of two men: Adolf Hitler, who needs no introduction, and the much less well known Sadao Araki, a top general in Japan’s Imperial Army before the war. Araki was the premier right-wing theorist in Imperial Japan. The Impact of the Great Depression on Japan The Great Depression hit Japan particularly hard. Japan has few natural resources, and had problems obtaining resources from the General Sadao Araki rest of the world. Natural resources around the Pacific were mostly under the control of Western colonial powers and the Japanese were cut off from trade. This exasperated Japan’s economic woes, and caused considerable civil discontent. There was a strong feeling in Japan that an aggressive military expansionist policy was the only way to break out of their unfortunate economic situation and was one of the leading causes of World War 2 in the Pacific. The people lost faith in the civil government and turned towards the army. Araki and his followers were known as the Imperial Way Faction. As well as a fundamental belief in the supreme rule of the Emperor, they also merged the ancient “bushido” way of the samurai with the Fascist ideals that were starting to rise up in Europe to create a new, right wing way of thinking that was in tune with the beliefs of much of the Japanese people at the time
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