The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to pay reparations which made the country go into debt. It also placed restrictions on their military and blamed them for the war. The Nazi Party rose to power because Hitler claimed that he would fix all of these problems.
Many European <span>countries were interested in west Africa and North Africa because this was during the Industrial Revolution, and they wanted to obtain as many natural resources as possible for their factories. </span><span />
The Soviet Union’s means of cutting off Eastern Europe from the rest of the world and turning them communist.
