West European Studies

World War II was the most gigantic conflict in the world history. In fact, the world is still leaving with the consequences of the war. The war began on September 1st 1939 when Germany invaded Poland without warning which led to the start of the war. On the 3rd of the same month (September, 1939), Britain and France were at war with the Germany and within a week, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa joined other countries in the war. According to Richard he described the war as horrible, since it occupied a major area from the streets of Stalin grand, to the hedgerows of Normady, the icy mountains of Norway to the sweltering deserts of Libya, the insect infested jungles of Burma to the coral reefed islands of the pacific, violence prevailed.

What led to the war 
The war began in 1939 to 1945 making it six years of massive destruction of properties and loss of lives. On land, ocean and in the air, Poles fought the Germans, Italians fought the Americans and the Japanese fought the Australians. The war involved two axis of power that was well organized led by Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria were on one side, while Britain and the United States led the other wing that composed France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia, this indicates that the Britain allies were many as compared to Germany and the allies.

According to Lloyd, in his analysis on the World War 2, he argued that, certain eminent factors led to the beginning of the Second World War. The reasons he gave were diverse basing from individuals ambitions, supremacy, aggression, ammunition, organizations such as the United Nations peace keepers and the failure to address important issues by the world super powers or the G8. A scholar and an author by the name Chris Bellamy blamed the then president Adolf Hitler on his Endeavour to occupy more land especially in the East according to his Nazi policy of occupation of land by the use of force.

The major reason why Germany decided to join the war basing on Peters argument, Germany decided to join the war because Hitler used the harsh limitations that were set against Germany in the treaty of Versailles that stated that stated that Germany had a right to acquire land where German speaking people lived.
It is therefore vivid that the war was typically based on personal ambitions to acquire more land, satisfaction of individual ambitions and the search for supremacy of each member states by being disobedience to the treaty to observe peace. For instance, Hitler used dirty tricks so that he could not be viewed as the oppressor such as dressing up a prisoner in a Polish uniform to attack the German radio station as an excuse to invade Poland and Europe.

In March 1941, the U.S. began to support the British in the form of arms and missiles through the Lend-Lease Act. In January 1942, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to create a Combined Chiefs of Staff and Germany their first priority. After three years, the Allies did win the war in Europe. Germany surrendered unconditionally on May 7th 1945. This tells us more that Britain did not entertained the idea of becoming an ally of Germany in world war Two, a conflict which was finally settled with the use of nuclear weapons..