... nation's economy, can often be a fundamental factor in the route to aggressive military action. A strong economy, providing the country with a prosperous industry, would be a strong foundation, for the construction of a vast military force. Yet economic stability usually co-insides with political stability, thus having a non-threatening society, where most of the population are happy to wallow in wealth that their nation provides, rather than looking to go to war, in order to improve a nations standard of living. The other way that an economy may influence a route to war, was taken up by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The high levels of unemployment was a huge factor in the nations discontent with the existing government. This gave rise to public votes going to less conventional, and generally radical extremist groups, eventually putting Hitler in power, giving his party the ability to send the nation to ...

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