2007-06-18 12:30:56 · 11 answers · asked by Tammy P 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
It could not have been avoided. Hitler's plan to subjugate Europe would inevitably draw all major powers into the conflict. It is unlikely that anything other than total victory or total defeat would've halted Germany's military actions.
2007-06-18 12:34:20 · answer #1 · answered by rbanzai 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
It could have been avoided if the European govts had shown an ounce of firmness in the 1930s. But that's like saying, 'if pigs had wings'. Anything that risked war would have been electoral suicide.
It's not just foolish or evil governments. The people have to carry the can too.
2007-06-18 23:15:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Addendum: We also would have had to hand over all the Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Communists, et al for immediate extermination.
And can we do without all the "sweetness and light" commentary that has NOTHING to do with the question - just a blatant attempt to show off what someone considers "talent?"
2007-06-18 17:29:51 · answer #3 · answered by 34th B.G. - USAAF 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It was probably one of the few necessary wars, and probably the last. That's why Studs Terkel called it "The Good War".
2007-06-18 12:52:57 · answer #4 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ask the few living survivors of the Holocaust and Pearl Harbor.
2007-06-18 18:34:07 · answer #5 · answered by melinda g 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. No war is ever necessary. It could have been avoided. All we had to do was sit down with Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito and asked what they wanted. We could have easily given Hitler the entirity of continental Europe and given the Japanese the vast Pacific Ocean, and we could have done that with no one being killed! That is all we had to have done with those terrorists was pull our troops out of Europe and the Pacific and talk with them and we could have avoided conflict.
2007-06-18 16:07:47 · answer #6 · answered by Big Ben 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
was necessary
2007-06-22 09:42:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your spelling needs work
2007-06-18 12:34:08 · answer #8 · answered by ironjohn1973 3 · 0⤊ 5⤋
yes it could haver been avoided totally unecessary i think if people(States) decided to join then we couild have avoided the wholoe thing
2007-06-18 12:40:09 · answer #9 · answered by kodes1 1 · 0⤊ 7⤋
it was, if u wanted to stop communism
2007-06-18 12:34:15 · answer #10 · answered by Punjabiness 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋