cause the war but Hitler wanted the war. Hitler who came into power in 1933 almost immediately created problems by removing himself from the League of Nations and expanding into foreign territories such as Czechoslovakia and Poland, Poland being the final country entered before France and Britain decided to take action. Hitler also broke the disarmament agreement and began to rebuild his countries military power, making many countries very nervous and putting some at the tip of war. Hitler's main problem was his hunger to want more and more and to hold the mindset that nobody would do anything about him, which eventually led him right into a war. Another leader that might have also helped to cause war because of his ideals was the Russian leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin also helped make countries feel uneasy and hostile when he signed the Hitler-Stalin Pact to divide up Poland between the two making many of European powers begin mobilization. Many consider Stalin's ignorance in the decision to ally himself with Hitler a leading cause of hostility in the war because Hitler had basically tricked him into helping his cause only to turn his back on him later. Two others leaders personalities that might have also led to war, but with not as great of extent would be Japan's leader Hideki Tojo, with his decision to attack the US and Franklin Roosevelt and his activist and conformational nature that went against US foreign policy.
             For the most part this theory has much strength considering the fact that many events that were deemed starts of the war were direct results of these leaders' characteristics and actions, whether it is Hitler and Stalin invading Poland or Tojo's bombing of Pearl Harbor. There is really no
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