A Decade of Uneasy Peace
World War II was the worst war that was fought in the 20th Century, and perhaps the worst war in the history of man. The loss of lives in World War II was a staggering 50-60 million dead (Mitchner, Tuffs Global Forces of the 20th Century 130). World War II also ushered in the era of nuclear weapons. How did this war come about, and could it have been prevented? War was inevitable in 1939 due to the resentment of the German people towards the Versailles Treaty, poverty resulting from the great depression, the policy of appeasement, and Axis aggression in the 1930s. The Treaty of Versailles was the major treaty ending military actions against Germany in World War I. The treaty was signed at the Palace of Versailles, near Paris, on June 28, 1919, and went into effect on January 10, 1920, following ratification by Germany and four of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan (Mitchner, Tuffs Global Forces of the 20th Century 22). It was not ratified by the United States, which made a separate treaty of peace with Germany in 1921 incorporating much of the Treaty of Versailles by reference (Mitchner, Tuffs Global Forces of the 20th Century 42). The lesser Allied po
Many people feared urban unemployment, communism, foreign humiliations, and middle-class loss of status (Lee 155). On March 11, 1935, Hitler announced the existence of an Air Force (Lee 190). This attack directly leads to World War II. The public wanted governments that could take charge and end the disorders. Japanese armies soon took Nanking (Beijing), Hankow, and Canton. The policy of appeasement was used when dealing with Germany in the 1930's. Germany was only allowed to have 100 000 troops in her Army. Britain and France had an alliance with the Soviet Union at that time which would have placed Germany in a bad position in the middle of a two front war if they had attacked. Britain and France found this reason convenient and so Hitler controlled the Sudetenland. Many people in the industrial nations turned against the governments that had permitted such a "state of affairs" to occur (Mitchner, Tuffs Century of Change 43). Germany was not allowed to have an Air Force, and her navy was left with several out-dated ships and nothing else (Mitchner, Tuffs Century of Change 218). However, Stalin cancelled his alliance with Britain and France when he signed his pact with Hitler promising to work together against Poland (Mitchner, Tuffs Global Forces of the 20th Century 63). They were the Spanish Civil War and Italy's takeover of Ethiopia.
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