In more than one way, the measures taken by global powers towards ensuring the restoration of peace and stability to the world in the aftermath of the World War I, were a major contributor to the outbreak of the World War II.
The Treaty of Versailles, as established towards the end of the First World War, was a targeted victimization of the Germans, apparently for having started the War. Germany was to not only pay hefty reparations for the damages suffered by these emergent powers in the course of the war, but was to also suffer territorial loses, seeing as the treaty provided for her colonies to be put under the trusteeship of the League of Nations. Furthermore, the treaty put severe limits on German militarism, therefore, acting as an affront at Germanic pride. As such, the treaty disgruntled Germans. Providing also in this treaty, Germany was forced to sign and accept the allegations leveled against it. Germany, even though it was not the only aggressor in the war, was to take full responsibility over the same. This was made possible by the fact that Germany was powerless, politically and military wise. The treaty was among one of the other five treaties that were created in the Paris peace conference.
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Even though this treaty was signed by the then government of Germany, the country felt that they had been double-crossed and hence, most of the leaders who stood accused of complicity in its adoption were killed, creating a power vacuum, and this was filled by Adolf Hitler. The economy of the country went down and the need for stability by the country saw Germany vote in Adolf Hitler who promised change. Germany began to violate the terms of the treaty and by 1935, the country had completely cut off the reparations. The establishment of the treaty may have had good intentions such as to lessen the power of Germany and to completely end the war, but it definitely had the opposite effect. Germany felt belittled and hence, sought vengeance through their leader Adolf Hitler, bringing about the Second World War, quite indirectly.
The Weimar Republic was birthed after World War 1; it was a temporary constituent of Germany, and suffered equally as a result of the treaty, especially seeing as it was a young democracy. Further, the Versailles treaty served to ferment German discontentment with the world order that was prevalent as at then.
Vladimir Lenin was the man who brought about the Bolsheviks revolution in the year 1917 in Russia. Russia pulled out of the world war 1 in 1917, and a provisional government, which Lenin was against, was established. Lenin was of the opinion that a government ruled directly by the soldiers, workers, and peasants, was what Russia needed. After much fighting and causing the revolution he was won against the opposition that had hoped to keep the country as a part of the Europe capitalist system. He became the first leader of the newly formed USSR. To this end, the World War I preceded totalitarianism in continental Europe, and even further in turn, set the world on the path of another great war; the World War II.
Desperate times calls for desperate measures, and this is exactly what led to the totalitarian states. As the world was sinking deep into harsh economic times, countries needed a person who would save them from sinking deeper and who promised economic stability. This is how Adolf Hitler was elected and became a dictator whose vengeance for Poland led to World War 2. On the other hand, the appeasement policy, put in place in order to minimize conflicting state interactions, only but served to foster the military aggressiveness on the part of Hitler and Mussolini, leading to the World War II, as it diminished alternative centers of power to counter that one of these two dictators. where certain course of actions is put in place in order to compromise with certain countries to avoid disputes.
At the end of it all, the redrawing of the map of Europe and Middle East affected many countries, since it was premised mainly upon the politics of the day, some of which strongly contradicted each other, and not on the economy. The Soviet Union, for example, stopped existing and USSR was formed and in addition, the East now comprised of Poland. To this end, this redrawing of maps destabilized political systems, as such, created favorable conditions for the World War II to be waged.
