what 4 actions the us and it's european allies could have taken to prevent W.W.2?

Question

PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS QUESTION

Answer 1

You have to see the causes of world war II:
- Germany wanted to have a revanch over the Versailles treaty of 1919 (Poland's issue/ "Wilson's 14 points")
- occidental democracies were weak after the 1st war but also after the Big Depression of 1929 that non only affected US but Europa (that crisis was inderectly linked to the election of Hitler in Germany)
- the first attempts to conquer small countries were not discouraged early enough (accords de Munich)
- USSR didn't trust occidental nations (communism/solcialism-liberalism/capitalism) and Germany is led by a national/socialist (nazi is the contraction for it) who wants, at first, to ally with that great country (USSR and Germany are around the small countries Hitler wants to seize...): pacts official and unofficial are made between those two (betrayed afterwards)

So, first, the ending of WWI should have been treated differently.
Second, the 1929 crisis should have been avoided.
Third, we should not have "ostracized" USSR so much.
Fourth, we should have reacted immediatly when Germany (and Italy) began to attack smaller countries.

What else? Perhaps an immediate helping of the US would have calmed down the beginning war? (but Delano Roosevelt was a pacifist and US just had another big economic crash in 1938).

Many ifs...
I hope this will help, it's a bit rusty for me and I didn't have great grades in history (even though I liked it...).

Answer 2

1.) The allies should have followed Wilson's example and not been as punishing with the Treaty of Versaille.

2.) The allies should not have been so eager to set up so many multi-ethnic nations in Eastern Europe without the will to provide the aid and support that would help them be successful.

3.) The League of Nations was made too weak to be of use, and was undercut by the fact that Wilson pushed for it, but the US didn't join.

4.) The US and it's allies should have enforced the provisions of the Treaty of Versaille and prevented Anschluss.

5.) The US and it's allies should have backed Czechoslovakia against German demands for the Sudetenland.

Unfortunately, it's easy to say that - no one reasonably predicted the depression that crippled the world economy in the 30's, and Roosevelt had his hands tied in foreign policy by the isolationists (who he didn't fully outmaneuver until after Pearl Harbor).