Do you think that World War 2 could of been avoided?

Answer 1

Yes WW2 could have been avoided, but we would all be speaking German now ! But the upside would be that dumb@sses like you would be shot !

Answer 2

Some wars yes some no, World war 2, no.
It could have been held to a smaller regional affair if Hitler was stopped early on.
Neville Chamberlain gave Hitler 11 months to go into 3 or 4 countries, if he responded by saying if you go into poland or anyother countiry it will be an act of war than back it up.
This whole time Germany was re-arming while Britain was dis-arming.
We are going thru the same thing right now with the EU, they are arming to the teeth and we have talk of disarming.
When the Dems take office next year we will pull out of Iraq, then we will turn our attention inward and we will see two things happen, first Iran will fill the void we leave then the EU will have to play the regional superpower.
They are talking seriously about a huge standing army, they have the economy to be a superpower in two-three years.
We are about done, with our economy dropping it will take one more attack and we will be unable to fund the recovery.
Katrina was paid for by China and Japan buying our junk bonds, we will be unable to sell these pretty soon.

Answer 3

Yes. Whether that was a probable event is another question.

A harsher OR a more lenient Versailles treaty might have helped. If harsher, Germany could not have been a military threat. If more lenient, Germany might have been less resentful.
Better financial and political support for the Weimar Republic might have at least delayed the polarization between left and right in Germany, or even not seen German bankers and industrialists so panicked by the "red threat" that they supported the opposite party and leader, who they thought they could control.
A firm League of Nations response to Italian fascism In Africa and Japanese imperialism in China might have made a difference. With no example of Mussolini's success in North Africa and Abyssinia, would Hitler have been tempted to be so adventurous?

I'm not saying any of these were likely.
I can't see them being impossible.

Answer 4

There are a lot of events that some say that if handled differently would have prevented the war. When Germany occupied the Rheinland ( demilitarized under the treaty of Versailles), France could have moved its army in to intervene, and Germany would have been forced to withdraw. Poland even suggested activating the French-Polish alliance at that time. When Germany annexed parts of Czechoslovakia, there was nothing done. Would any of that have stopped the war, it's hard to say.

Answer 5

Probably. At least in the sense that after-the-fact you can almost always determine how to have prevented or avoided any event. For example, had England supported Hitler in his expansion efforts and had the USA notified Japan they could have political sway over southeast Asia and the Pacific islands, then Japan would not have needed to attack Pearl Harbor and Hitler would not have begun bombing England. Of course the world would have become a much different place and we might not be talking this way.

Answer 6

No, I don't think so.

Everyone so far looks like they are laying all the blame for the world war at Germany's feet. My feeling is even if the Germans had been entirely peaceful, the conflict would have started in the pacific side due to the Japanese expansion and war type maneuvers against china. too many countries had ties in the far east and Indonesia, Once the Japanese had come out in full aggression, its likely a coalition of nations would have formed against them, much like against Germany in 1939.

Answer 7

Not really. The world was in a huge era of change someone would have gone to war with the rest. So many advances in technology someone would have thought they had the upper hand and declared war.

Answer 8

Yes

If the western democracies had supplied the Spanish people fighting against fascism during the Spanish Civil War

If the west had helped Ethiopia against the Italian aggressors

If the west had helped China fend off the Japanese



Our hopes for peace were dashed with every fascist victory

in hindsight the west should have substantially materially supplied the Spanish, Ethiopians and Chinese against the fascist aggressors


+ +++++ The German people probably never get near a nut like Hitler, save for the unfair burden of responsibility for World War I placed upon the German people

Answer 9

Yes, if we had stayed in Europe after WW1 like we did after WW2. The United States has provided the stability needed in Europe and Japan since WW2. That is one of the biggest reasons why we have not had a return to fighting in either theater in 60 years. This is also what is needed in Iraq. Our presence their will stabilize the region. It will take a long time, but we can and will stabilize the region. If we pull out, then the mistakes of WW1 will not have been learned.

Answer 10

Not unless you change the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles that ended WW1(and guaranteed another world war). Even then, I'm not sure it could have been avoided.

Answer 11

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