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Make a follow-up of a student's weekly discussion and respond with your opinion regarding to her post

Kayla Stephens

After World War 1, many countries, including the major countries, were struck with debt from the war. Many countries were broke. The Treaty of Versailles forced the opposing countries to pay for their wrong-doings, leaving these countries no money to care for the citizens. After the first world war, many countries felt it was best to keep to themselves and not intervene with foreign countries. As a result, each country relied on only themselves to get things back to normal. As a result, people turned to the promises of leaders in the countries leading to the rise of Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany. Although one was socialist and one was fascist, both leaders gave promises of filling the stomachs of their citizens, and regaining their countries authority back. These governments worked hard to grow their militaries to ensure that they would never be destroyed again. Other countries saw the increase in military and knew it was against the rules of the treaty of Versailles, but they were reluctant to intervene with the threat of a second great war(Openstax, 2019). It is easy to say that if the allied countries would have acted sooner, when they saw the growth of military in Germany, Italy, and Japan the war could have been stopped before it had even began. If the Treaty of Versailles was taken seriously, the central powers could have disarmed the enemy before they got to their full strength.

 Just line in World War I, Americans wanted to stay neutral in the situations happening in Europe. Also just like in World War 1, America aided the Axis powers by sending military supplies and other assistance. The Lend-Lease act was put into place, were the United States would lend military supplies to Europe in exchange for European land(Milestones: 1937-1945 - Office of the Historian, n.d.).  The opposing powers saw this as a betrayal, just as they did in WWI.

 

References

Milestones: 1937-1945 - Office of the Historian. (n.d.). Retrieved October 2, 2022, from  https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/lend-lease#:%7E:text=During%20World%20War%20II%2C%20the,the%20war%20until%20December%201941 Links to an external site. .

OpenStax. (2019).  U.S. history. OpenStax CNX. Retrieved from  https://cnx.org/contents/[email protected]:gMXC1GEM@7/Introduction