The necessary but insufficient factors include:
1. Treaties such as the Versailles Treaty and the Munich Agreement, which either caused resentment among European countries or tried to unsuccessfully appease the aggressive powers.
2. The failure of the League of Nations and the concept of 'Collective Security'.
3. The global economic crisis spurred by the Great Depression in America, as it led to the rise of Hitler and other Fascist powers.
The factors which proved to be the precipitating causes for the war included -
Hitler's Role:
• He attached Poland on all fronts, rather than just capturing the Polish corridor and Danzig, which were parts of his demands to Poland (Treaty of Versailles). Hitler wanted to destroy Russia and use its territory for his Lebensraum or 'Living Space for the Germans'. He thought that Poland and Russia being weak, would be quickly defeated through the German Blitzkrieg i.e., a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment.
• Hitler went ahead with occupation of the Czechoslovakia (minus Sudetenland) in 1939 only because there existed an opportunity in form of poor law and order situation due to demand for semi-independence by Slovakia.
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