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Originally Posted by the_historian,Nov 8 2004, 05:00 AM IMHO this American retreat into isolationism was one of the main causes of the later failure of the "League of Nations". |
Not the fact the "Never Again" pacifist movement made it impossible for the League of Notions(!) to realistically threaten anyone about anything? And let's not forget that the middle classes in Britain-and elsewhere-were evenly divided between slavish devotion to Hitler and slavish devotion to Stalin.
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No, not that at all. The thing that enabled Hitler to start WW2 is that the western allies did not pile in 'mob handed' the first time Germany moved its troops into any place they were forbidden to.
If America, Britain and France had troops ready and prepared to go into the Rhineland if Hitler did, Germany would have backed down, and not invaded anywhere else.