In World War II, Germany destroyed the world hegemony of Britain and France, the United States and the Soviet Union became the new world hegemons, and China began to revitalize its nation. World War II, of course, will not appear for no reason, so who is the "black hand behind the scenes"?
1. Behind Germany's resurgence
After World War I, Germany became a defeated country and was suppressed by the Western powers, led by Britain and France. Germany is in ruins, not only lacking construction funds, but also paying huge economic reparations.
On January 11, 1923, France, together with Belgium, sent 100,000 troops to occupy the German Ruhr industrial zone under the pretext that Germany did not fulfill its indemnity obligations, resulting in the "Ruhr Crisis". Faced with such a difficult situation, it was clear that Germany alone could not pry the colonial hegemony of Britain and France.
If the Germans wanted to leverage the colonial hegemony of Britain and France, they needed to give the Germans a "blood transfusion". As early as the Genoa Conference in April 1922, the Soviet Union (Soviet Russia) signed the "War" with Germany.
The Treaty of Laballow, the two countries began to hug each other for warmth. The Germans provided technology and the Soviets provided resources, which opened up the recovery of the German economy and the rapid development of the Soviet economy. But do not forget that Germany and the Soviet Union were short of money, and the Soviet Union deprived the peasants of the accumulated wealth, which was not enough to carry out large-scale industrialization, which required a "gold lord" to send charcoal in the snow. This "golden father" is the United States on the other side of the ocean.
The United States gave Germany a large amount of loans, which was also the Dawes plan and the Young Ge plan, which was ostensibly to deal with the problem of "triangular debt". Germany owed Britain, France and other countries a large amount of war reparations, and Britain and France and other countries owed the United States a large amount of war loans and goods during The First World War. The Americans helped the Germans recover by giving Britain and France the money to pay back what the United States owed. But in fact, the Americans are not as "selfless as some people think, and the sophisticated diplomats of the United States have long seen the great benefits of destroying the British and French colonial hegemony through Germany, and then the United States "picking peaches".
Germany's re-emergence, behind the United States funds and the resources of the Soviet Union, it can be said that this is the two major "graces" of Germany's rise. It should be known that Germany is an "oil-poor country", and Germany's industrialization requires a lot of oil and other resources. The Soviet Union is the world's second-largest oil producer, and the support of the Soviet Union is an important guarantee for the rise of Germany. But the Soviet Union was also short of money, even more than Germany, which led to Germany having to receive financial support from the United States.
2. Germany's help behind launching the world war
From April 1922, when Germany and the Soviet Union "hugged" at the Genoa Conference, to June 1941, when Germany sneaked into the Soviet Union, Germany's largest source of oil and other resources was the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's oil and other resource support was the key to Germany's attack on Poland, Norway, and even France and Yugoslavia. In addition, without the financial support of the United States, the "group heating" between Germany and the Soviet Union would be reduced to paper talk. German tanks, aircraft and Soviet fuel, the Germans used American funds to start a series of industrial developments, which made Germany invincible at the beginning of World War II.
The second initial German victory was actually the result of the support of the United States and the Soviet Union, which was completely a "proxy war" launched by the United States and the Soviet Union. At that time, the world's "three powers" the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany united to oppose the world's "old fourth" Britain and the "old fifth" France, the Americans paid for it, the Soviets contributed resources, and the Germans sent troops.
The Germans shed blood and sweat in this "proxy war", and the Americans and Soviets took the opportunity to "pick peaches". The Soviets were naked robbers, half a Poland, three Baltic states, and Romania's Bessarabia, in the name of establishing a buffer zone to establish the "Eastern Front."
The establishment of the Eastern Front enabled the Soviet Union to increase its territory by more than 460,000 square kilometers, with a population of more than 22 million, and the western border was pushed about 300-400 kilometers to the west.
The Americans were much more "good-looking" than the Soviets, and under the guise of doing business, they made a windfall in the war, whether it was Britain, France or Germany, as long as they gave money, they could buy weapons and strategic materials from the United States, of course, on the condition that "cash transactions, self-delivery." The British and the French almost exhausted their families, and the British even leased Bermuda and the like to the United States for 99 years in exchange for some old destroyers, and the Americans borrowed the hand of Germany to "cut flesh" from Britain and France and other countries. It wasn't until the British had squeezed the last of the copper plates dry that the Americans introduced the Lend-Lease Act, and there was no cash arrears.
3. The calculation behind the Soviet-German war
The Soviet Union's attitude toward Germany was simple: "If you have a bargain, you will take advantage of it, but you will not fall out." The Soviet Union thought that Germany would obediently act as its own and the Soviet Union's "agent", but the Germans did not expect that the Germans would quickly kill the Soviet Union that had supported them for nearly 20 years. Hitler also knew that once the Soviet Union completed its military modernization, the Germans would not be able to withstand the face of several times the number of Soviet aircraft, tanks, and artillery.
After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War in June 1941, the happiest thing was actually the British, who were finally able to avoid being ravaged by the Germans. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was soon in the House of Commons issuing a statement supporting the Soviets in their fight against the German invasion, knowing that Britain's most difficult period had passed. Germany's sneak attack on the Soviet Union offended its biggest energy source, "Daddy," and could only rely on Romanian oil to prop up this terrible war. The Soviets "fought all day and were pecked by geese" and had to go all out to face Germany.
The Americans could not hide their happiness, and in August 1941 the Atlantic Conference was held with the British, and the British and Americans were already discussing the post-war world peace order, which did not regard the Germans as "living people" at all. In fact, it is not difficult to understand that Germany has lost the support of the two "fathers" behind it, how can it withstand the joint suppression of the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain? Truman, who was still a senator at the time, could not keep his mouth shut, saying that americans would like to see Germans lying in morgues and Russians (Soviets) lying on the operating table.
The Americans did not provide strategic supplies to the Soviets in August 1941, but did not deliver the first strategic supplies to the port of Murmansk on the coast of the Arctic Ocean until December 5, 1941, missing the most difficult period of the Moscow defense war. After that, the United States always provided little strategic materials to the Soviet Union, and after the fierce Battle of Stalingrad in August 1942, the Americans suspended the supply of strategic materials to the Soviet Union for various reasons. It was not until February 1943, when the Red Army won the Battle of Stalingrad, that the United States resumed the strategic delivery of goods to the Soviet Union. To make matters worse, American B24 strategic bombers took off from Khartoum, North Africa, to bomb Romanian oil fields as early as June 1942, but the Americans were not willing to bomb Romanian oil fields on a large scale until August 1943, after the End of the Battle of Kursk. Of course, the Americans knew that blowing up the Romanian oil fields would be extremely lethal to the heavily oil-dependent German mechanized army, but the Americans were not enthusiastic about destroying the Romanian oil fields in a way that directly weakened the German army's combat effectiveness, and it was clear that Germany and the Soviet Union would continue to consume.
4. Division of post-war interests
In June 1944, when the Red Army was about to invade Poland, the Americans hurried to launch the Normandy landings, which were clearly to pick peaches. At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, the Americans negotiated with the Soviets the arrangements for a post-war world order. The British were very aggrieved to find that the Americans had divided Eastern Europe and East Asia among the Soviet Union, while the remaining areas of the Americans had taken it for themselves, and the British could only "play soy sauce" in front of the two superpowers. The Yalta Conference decided that the post-war international order should divide the cake not according to the contribution of "contribution", but according to the strength of the country. No matter how much the Soviet Union contributed, it could only rank behind the United States, and the "gold lord" was the big boss.
The British soon discovered that they, in addition to the false name of a victorious power, were more miserable than the Germans. The Americans began to squeeze out British and French colonial interests throughout the planet, demanding that colonies everywhere "open their doors" to the United States and inciting colonial independence. Even if Britain and France have the heart to oppose, their strength is not allowed, and they can only obey the arrangements of the United States.
According to the principle of "whoever profits the most is the one behind the scenes", we find that the United States is behind the Second World War, but the Americans are too good at propaganda and language packaging, and they have become the number one contributors to the anti-fascism of the Second World War. The soviets had limited strength, and the Americans threw them a "cake" to appease them in Eastern Europe and East Asia, and the Soviets could only be cautious and try not to quarrel with the United States.
In world war II, who was behind it. Do you understand?