Economic: The German economy was destroyed by end of WWI. Germany also went through many economic bad times after 1918.

The Sudetenland was relegated to Germany between 1 October and 10 October 1938. The Czech part of Czechoslovakia was subsequently invaded by Germany in March 1939, with a portion being annexed and the remainder turned into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Nazi ghettos. Beginning with the invasion of Poland during World War II, the regime of Nazi Germany set up ghettos across occupied Europe in order to segregate and confine Jews, and sometimes Romani people, into small sections of towns and cities furthering their exploitation.

Japan was angry that the US vetoed any talk about a “racial equality clause” in the formative league of nations or any of the treaties (Versailles, Trianon, Neuilly, St Germain or Sevres) that came into force after WWI. They took it as a personal insult, coupled with the US moving in on what Japan saw as “their” sphere of influence after the US took the Philippines in the Spanish-American War, Japan saw itself on a collision course with the US which would come to a head in December 1941. Of course if Japan had known anything about the US in 1919 they would know that a racial equality clause was the American ruling classes worst nightmare.

While the United States was still struggling to emerge from the Great Depression at the end of the 1930s, and would do so partly because of the war, Japan had emerged from its own period of depression, which had begun in 1926, by the mid-1930s. Many of the young soldiers mobilized into the Japanese army by the early 1930s came from the rural areas, where the effects of the depression were devastating and poverty was widespread. Their commitment to the military effort to expand Japanese territory to achieve economic security can be understood partly in these terms. The depression ended in the mid-1930s in Japan partly because of government deficits used to expand greatly both heavy industry and the military.

 

There are many causes and effects of World War II. One cause was the aggressive actions of Germany, Japan, and Italy were ignored. When Japan invaded Manchuria and China, little was done to deal with these invasions. The same was true when Germany and Italy took land or violated the terms of the Versailles Treaty.

 

However, after the end of World War II and the Suez Crisis in 1956, the United Kingdom's status as a superpower was greatly diminished, leaving just the United States and Soviet Union as superpowers.

The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had committed during world war ii.