The first world war ended in the Treaty of Versailles, in which Germany had to pay reparation and cut its production base fields.

Primary Causes of Second World War:

1. Economic crisis in Germany – as a result of payments for damages.

2. Great Depression – 1929: WWI led left Europe dependent on USA. USA crash meant Europe also suffered.

3. Hitler's messihor deliterwaum – Poland, Ukraine and Eastern Russia – to feed people and settle farmers.

4. Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939.

5. Japan's imperialist ambition – attack on Manchuria in (1931) and China in 1937

6. Rise of fascism – Italy's Mussolini – creation of rigid nationalist identities.

farmers in Korea.

8. Rise of ideologies of axis and allied powers. (Democracy v/s authoritarianism)

Thus, the second world war re-enforced the Roman analogy 'Homo nomini lupus' i.e. man is a wolf to man.

Major Political Consequences of WWII:

1. Rise of USA as a superpower on the global stage. (Entered WWII after Pearl Harbour attacks in 1941)

2. Beginning of Cold War – USSR and USA based on (communist v/s capitalist ideologies)

3. Rise of de-colonisation process – independent nation states arose in South Asia

4. Fall in the British Empire's hegemony

5. Berlin stand off – East and West Germany partitioned.

6. Myth of 'white man's burden' of civilisation busted.