world War 2!?

Question

“World War II was inevitable”
inevitable: Impossible to avoid or prevent

Why is this statement true?

Answer 1

If the western allies had not pursued a policy of appeasement, the war could've been prevented by earlier military action against the Nazis when they tookover the Sudetland or Chechoslovakia....

Answer 2

The only way to prevent World War II was to turn your face and let the three countries that created the Axis do what ever they wanted. conquer their neighbors in europe, in Asia, and Africa.

Its more or less as if the school bully takes your lunch, your watch and your money as well as everybody elses.
Is a confrontation imposible or avoidable with the bully?

Of course its avoidable. You just have to let him go on stealing from everyone and do nothing about it.

In a personal context its posible to let the bully go on, there is not much to loose except your honor, self respect and of course your money and lunch.
But in an international context, no country will permit that any other country to cross the line of their rights.

That´s what the Axis was doing, as early as 1931 when Japan attacked China, on July 1934 Nazi Germany organized the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss and took over the country in 1938, in september 1935 Italy invaded Ethiopia. In October 1938 Hitler took over Checoslovaquia.
These are some cases, there are others.

Of course the USA would have had to implore Japan to forgive them after the attack on Pearl Harbor for daring to shoot down a dozen japanese planes in self defense and of course pay japan the damages.

Russia would also have had to ask Germany for forgivnes, for having put up resistance when Germany attacked them on june 22 1941 and let them conquer the rest of the country, maybe helping them in the process so Germans would be completly satisfied.

If all these would have taken place, of course, war would have been avoidable. And the consequences??

Answer 3

Is this statement true?

If the Versailles treaty had either been more conciliatory OR more harsh WW2 might have been avoided.
(First case: less resentment, Second case: less ability to rise to military power)

If more support had been offered internationally to the democratic Weimar republic during the time of the Wall Street crash and inflationary economic crisis, it might not have fallen into the hands of extremists.

If both or either of the French and British governments had acted firmly over the Rhineland, or Czechoslovakia, rather than opting for appeasement, fearing war,
(Weak treatment of Italy in the League of Nations over Abyssinia (Ethiopia) also set a tone) German expansion might have been checked.

They are all "mights" and some of them are outside possibilities. But I've not seen an argument that they are all inconceivable.

Answer 4

Pretty Much. After making Germany take a bullet by making them pay for the first world war and make them take the blame for the war as well. After so much pain from The Treaty and the Great Depression, that Germans take their revenge against the mistreatment.

"Revenge dose not solve anything."