sorry about my previous post intead of wy1 i meant ww1 stupid spell check

WW1 was inevitable.Europe with all it alliances was like a keg of gunpowder waiting to go off and the assassination of the archduke was the spark. Because of all the alliances a small conflict could easily turn into a much larger one (thats how WW1 started)WW2 howver could have been avoided if Britain attacked Germany when it was weak instead of trying to please it.

good ideas people, but, consider this. Britain didn't want a World War, neither did France or any of the other allied countries that had participated in the First WW, and the United States wanted no part of it. So, could it have been possible for the allies to turn a deaf ear/eye to the Germans? Maybe they thought that if they attacked first, they would make world war I happen. maybe they thought that if they let things start by others hands, they would not feel that they started it.

the same can be said about WWII. Britain, France and the other Allies didn't want to start another WW, even though, they could have easily squashed Hitler when he started to break the Versailles treaty. Maybe they figured that if they let Hitler take back his precious small pieces of Germany he would stop. Britain and France and America certainly didn't want another WW, less than 20 years after the first.

Both Britain and France were still reeling from a the death of a million men apiece from WW1 and that did not count the maimed and badly wounded. Now just how do you think a politician is going to approach the Electorate and tell them that you are going to go to war again with the country that you have only just defeated. Some small towns had lost every male between 65 and 16, now just look at the fuss there is in America casualties in Iraq and then add in the total of deaths by the million and say that war is a good thing, do you think that any one would have listened to him.

Originally Posted by Damien435

As my teacher told me, "WWI was the avoidable war that nobody tried to avoid. WWII was the unavoidable that everyone tried to avoid."

That is not true it is the other way around
WW1 was unavoidable because of all the alliances between countries in europe. therefore a small conflict could easily turn into a much larger war.
WW2 could have been avoided if britain had attacked germany when it was still weak instead of trying to please them

Peterminator.....Why is that Britain should have taken on the task of bringing Germany to heel, why not America, they set up the League of Nations then washed their hands of it.

LeEnfield....if not britain than who else.
america did not want any more part in future european wars so they set up the league of nations , why they left i have no idea
Mabe the french,dutch,poles,ect.
Your right-america,britain and all the other countries should have joined together and killed hitler while they had a chance

Originally Posted by Peterminator

LeEnfield....if not britain than who else.
america did not want any more part in future european wars so they set up the league of nations , why they left i have no idea
Mabe the french,dutch,poles,ect.
Your right-america,britain and all the other countries should have joined together and killed hitler while they had a chance

Jesse Owens should have had a go at him when Hitler refused to present him the gold medal. It would have stopped a war and made for some great TV!!

Originally Posted by LeEnfield

Peterminator.....Why is that Britain should have taken on the task of bringing Germany to heel, why not America, they set up the League of Nations then washed their hands of it.

Because it was Britain and France who forced the harsh terms on Germany that ensured that if those two nations did not keep Germany on a short leash there would be another major war. If you remember correctly Woodrow Wilson tried to push for a peace more similar to post WWII than the unfairly cruel peace France and Britain wanted against Germany. And it is France AND Britain who should have kept the pressure on Germany, not just Britain.

It was inevitable for the reasons Charge 7 said.

Also the French were just begging for an excuse for revenge on Germany for the Franco-Pussian war.