How did the outcome of World War One contribute to the rapid

How did the outcome of World War One contribute to the rapid rise of both Communism and Nazism?

Solution

I have given questions in 2 parts , for more detailed answer see part 2 else part 1 will suffice

In Russia the revolution occurred during the war, and was probably accelerated because of wartime conditions. However, some form of revolution was almost inevitable and a communist revolution was likely. The nature of Marxism Leninism (not necessarily communism) was expansionist and led to support of Communist parties in other places. The Communist revolution in China in 1949 would almost certainly not have succeeded without Russian support, and the same applies to other communist regimes such as Vietnam.

In Germany, the economic conditions that followed the war created a social and political environment conducive to extremist parties, which included the Communists and the Nazis.

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~The war itself had less far-reaching and devastating consequences than did the Treaty of Versailles.

Communism was not a product of the war or of the peace. That movement had been festering in Russia for some time, waiting to erupt. WWI was a catalyst, not a cause.

But for the Treaty of Versailles and the Bolshevik Revolution, Hitler and the Nazis likely would not have risen to power. With a sane treaty, the communists would not have made the inroads in Germany that made the National Socialists a far more attractive option. Without the communists successes in Germany, the treaty alone may not have given the National Socialists the springboard they needed. The combination, however, coupled with the political savvy of Hitler, Rhoem, Heydrich, Strasser and Drexler, not to mention the charisma of Hitler and Goebbels, the treaty consequences and the communists came together in one of those \'perfect storm\' watershed moments in history.

The Great Depression has roots in the Treaty of Versailles.

Pearl Harbor had its roots at Versailles. When the western allies refused to included Japan\'s proposal for a statement of the equality of all races and peoples in the treaty, the writing was on the wall in Tokyo. The Rising Sun knew the west was bent on a course to try to relegate Japan to the ranks of second-rate wannabe nations and, having been through that with the US and Matthew Perry\'s Black Ships, it wasn\'t going to happen again. Japan started her military and industrial build-up that would result in the onset of WWII in 1931 with the Manchurian Invasion.

The Vietnam War had roots in Versailles as well. When the French retained control of Indochina, it set the stage for the Viet Minh freedom fighters and nationalists to pursue their guerrilla war and eventually to unite behind Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap. When France fell and Vichy France took over and allowed Japan to use Indochina as a staging area for the Second Sino-Japanese War (less directly related to Versailles, but no completely so) the US supported the Viet Minh. However, FDR stabbed them in the back at Yalta and Tehran, HST did them in 1945 and 1946 and Ike rubbed salt in the wounds in 1954 and 1956. But for the Treaty of Versailles, it is highly probable that the Vietnam War would not have happened.

In the Middle East, the seeds were sown that would culminate in the CIA coup that put the Shah back in power in Iran and the CIA creation of SAVAK to keep him there. That leads in a straight line to the embassy hostages and to the World Trade Center. Likewise, the Versailles Treaty laid the groundwork that would eventually grow into the coup in Iraq, also CIA sponsored, the would see the rise of the Baath Party and eventually the accession to power of the CIA\'s hand-picked strongman, Saddam Hussein.

It takes a little research, and some objective interpretation of events, but the Treaty of Versailles is responsible for much of the worst that happened in the twentieth century.