The Main Cause of World War Two

The Main Cause of World War Two

The policy of appeasement could be looked at as one of the greatest

mistakes any group of powerful people could make. The decision to give

in to demands to try to preserve peace and hope that would be the last

demand was a terrible policy to have been used by allied leaders.

The reason why this policy was so terrible is that it gave Adolf

Hitler half of Europe and 2 years to fully arm himself before the

fighting started. Really, the allies could have shut down Hitler

fairly quickly if they had gone after him when he mobilised his forces

into the Rhineland. Strategically, Hitler was given a great advantage

to aid his attempt of the conquest Europe.

First of all, in 1936, the mobilisation of troops in the Rhineland was

a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles. France, Britain and

the rest of Europe should have told Hitler to remove his forces. The

allies of WWI had agreed on keeping Germany out of the Rhineland

because that was where the Germans began their attack in WWI. The

allies ...