Causes of World War II

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    Unbreachable the fort
    Of the long-batter’d world uplifts its wall;
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    And night as welcome as a friend would fall.
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    Armies, for the most part, are made up of men drawn from simple and peaceful lives. In time of war they suddenly find themselves living under conditions of violence, requiring new rules of conduct that are in direct contrast to the conditions they lived under as civilians. They learn to accept this to perform their duties as fighting men.
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