Was World War II preventable?
Do you think WWII was preventable?
Please don't use profanity.
Yes it was.
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No it wasn't.
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Indeed they could have but unfortunately it didn't go down in that way. Call it fate! The only thing I cannot agree with was the bombing of Pearl Harbor being a bad idea in and of itself. When I think about it, albeit in a vacuum, I truly believe Pearl Harbor was one of the most well thought out and brilliant military missions that Japan could have pulled in order to secure the Pacific. I do not believe we could have beaten them if not for us dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Had that not been in the cards and available to us, I believe we would have lost the Pacific. The war in Europe was a different story since the allied and axis powers were united to one task...defeat Germany! Side: No it wasn't.
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You sir are mistaken in almost every aspect of your whole post. Japan wasn't involved in WW1 they lost around 10 thousand people in all, Japan sure as hell was involved in WW2. The Axis powers consisted of the 3 major countries being Japan Italy and Germany you don't know what the hell you're talking about. Nigeria? Last time I checked Nigeria didn't get atom bombs dropped on top of it due to them bombing the USA's navy. Get your facts straight, I would down vote you but I don't want to lose a point its not worth it. Side: Yes it was.
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Yes, if the Allies hadn't screwed Germany in the Treaty of Versaille and had helped rebuild Germany instead then I doubt Hitler's hate message would have be as popular and if the powers in the Pacific especially America would have taken Japanese expansion more seriously the war could have been avoided or at least not have been as big. Side: Yes it was.
If the allies had been less harsh in their reparation demands after WWI, the German economy would not have suffered as large a setback as it did, leading to extremist policies and the rise of the Nazis. However, once Hitler assumed power, his foreign policy was clearly one of aggression, especially towards the Slavic populations of Eastern Europe, and there was not much that could have been done to prevent his action fro that point on. Side: Yes it was.
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WWII was preventable. It could have preventable by having organizations such as the EU or NATO at that time, the Triple Entente was far too harsh against Germany, especially from the French side. Instead of solving the problems by robbing Germany of all its worth, they stripped it down and humiliated it as a whole. Britain should have taken a more decisive role in Diplomatic issues, having meetings for example with Germany, instead of waiting till the very eve of war when Chamberlain went to the Munich Pact. As far as i am concerned Chamberlain was a weak leader. But what i am also critical of is Americas isolationism with European affairs. Wilson wanted to get involved with European affairs as he didn't want it to happen again, unlike the selfish republicans who didn't want to take any part in the European affairs. but then the leader of Germany, was very clear in making Germany into a great super power, and indeed he achieved this, but Hitler should have been assassinated before the outbreak of war, with military threats well before the invasion of Poland. Side: Yes it was.
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I don't think there was much we could have done to stop WWII. Perhaps, we could have been less harsh on Germany after WWI, what with the war reparations and taxes, but I don't think the world expected such a poorly organized country, at the time, to rise up in power so quickly and take over half of Europe. After Hitler took power, there was absolutely nothing we could have done. He had a dream. It was a dream to exterminate all other races, a dream of hate. There is nothing anybody can do to stop people like that from acting on their dreams. And besides, he invaded Poland first. We didn't instigate (we meaning the allies) the war. Side: No it wasn't.
If we didn't force Germany to pay for all of the damage of world war one it would have been prevented.what happens when you mix a poor country with some crazy power hungry guy ? you get a dictator....we could have stopped Hitler from coming in to power thus preventing the war. Side: Yes it was.
I don't think there was much to do to prevent the war. Mussolini had already inspired Hitler by means of showing his power and ability to take over Italy. Hitler's ambitions grew and the war was only delayed by the fact that the Western European countries tried to use the method of appeasement to try and prevent war. By doing this it only fed Hitler's power. Land was given to Hitler over and over again. Even if there was no appeasement, Hitler was set on expanding Germany, and even had shown this when he made secret deals with Stalin to take over Poland. Side: No it wasn't.
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I wish it had been but I'm afraid it was not to be. If you read just a bit about the war it is quite obvious that so many countries were involved in power, money and the new world order that it could not have been prevented. It seemed as though every continent in the world was involved to some extent and the left-overs of WW I caused much consternation for Germany and other countries whose territories had been usurped before all was said and done. Side: No it wasn't.
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