Why Was World War II Was The Unnecessary War?

The Treaty of Versailles ‘One day president Roosevelt told me he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once “the unnecessary war”,’ Examine this statement by Winston Churchill. To what degree do you agree or disagree that World War II was ‘the unnecessary war’?

‘The unnecessary war’ as expressed by Winston Churchill, describes a war, which in his viewpoint could’ve been avoided if certain things and groups had lived up to their ideals. This ‘Unnecessary war’ as defined, is an opinion which in varying degrees is quite correct but it is clear that at the end of

This league, having been formed to keep democracy well alive and prevent future catastrophic total wars, was to have the power to uphold its ideals. However it was without doubt the failure of this body that led to World War II. Even if Hitler had risen to power all could have been salvaged. For example, the failure of the League to monitor Germany’s armed forces led to a huge expansion of the ‘police force’, the militarisation of the Rhineland created not even a stir within the league and the Invasion of the Sudetenland as a reclamation act was all but ignored. Irrefutably the fact stood and still stands, that had the League lived up to the ideals instead of just verbal condemnation after condemnation and constant procrastination for action, then Nazi Germany would have been stopped dead in its tracks. Even Nazi Germany had bluffed its invasions, with the knowledge that the League of Nations would definitely act. However with the failure of action came the build-up of German confidence and by 1938 nothing could and would stop the unnecessary war, by this time total war was doomed to

The Nazi Foreign policy of ‘Lebensraum’ or living space was absurd. With such a ‘need’ for space, the Germans would have been in no way content with Czechoslovakia itself and eventually it would come to dominated all of Eastern Europe and Russia. Even Hitler himself subtly dictated to the world in his book the aims of his government ‘We National socialist must stick firmly to the aim we have set….German people must be assured the territorial area which is necessary for it to exist on earth….Unless its territory be extended…Germany will either become a world power or will not continue to exist at all,’ so it was quite clear that Hitler would be a hard negotiator and he was very rooted into his ideals, with his eyes set on full remilitarisation of Germany and on world domination. His ambition bundled with the lack of resistance and policy of appeasement meant that without war Germany would literally take all of Europe without anyone stopping him. By this time intervention had to take course lest the free peoples of Europe fall under the Iron fist of Hitler. Diplomacy had passed and failed, the time for war was now and unnecessary had become necessary.