World War I leads to World War II as day follows Night by the end of World War I everybody is looking to get Advantage World War I didn't really end in 1918 it brutalized an entire generation of Europeans it brutalized an entire generation of people around the world and it made them realize that war on this scale was not only possible but actually thinkable there's a wonderful wonderful political cartoon where the fat politicians in generals are walking out of Versailles and there's a little tiny boy and he's crying in the corner and I'm not kidding he says I'm Canon fodder for 1940 they knew anyone with half a brain knew that the Treaty of Versailles was essentially the starting gun for the Second World War War essentially what happened is that you create such an unstable economy and so much animosity between nations that you're just seeding the field of War to rise and Grow Again a lot of the anger animosity resentment that fuels the rise of the national socialists of Adolf Hitler in Germany can be directly tied to that it would be difficult to argue that that's simply propaganda that's utilized by Adolf Hitler these were very difficult terms for the German people to to handle and it creates this bunker mentality this us against the world mentality that ultimately will play out in Hitler being able to create a program that appeals to that sentiment to the average German they have been sold out by the politicians in particular it made people like Adolf Hitler who had fought after all in the German Army in World War I think that if only the Germans could do it again but do it right this time they could actually win we call it World War I World War II but it's really two different stages of one global conflict just happens that people put their arms down for a 20-year period and then they went back to fighting again