Current Events > Why didn't the world do more to stop the Nazi rain of terror?

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They invaded Poland but most were kinda like "meh"

Is it like Chocolate rain.
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Burgess posted...

Is it like Chocolate rain.

You're joking about literal invasion

Did they use the cloud cover to invade.
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Most countries believed in isolationism. What Germany did wasn't their business.
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Because all the countries that could do something about it besides America, England, China, and the USSR were taken over by Germany
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cerealbox760 posted...

Most countries believed in isolationism. What Germany did wasn't their business.

Oh

All sorts of reasons.

1) There was an overwhelming feeling, even among the Allied nations, that the Treaty of Versailles of was overly-punitive and had unjustly placed millions of Germans outside of Germany(e.g. in the Czechoslovak Sudetenland, for example).

2) France in particular had suffered horribly in the first World War, and had no appetite for further conflict. The British weren't much keener on conflict, thus they initially backed-down or compromised rather than attempt to enforce the letter of Treaty of Versailles(which was, again, quite unpopular).

3) The new states forged out of former Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian lands in Eastern Europe spent much of the inter-war period engaged in border disputes among themselves, as basically no one was happy with the borders set at the Peace Conference(which ended up heavily favoring Czechoslovakia and Romania). Poland also got into a war with the Soviets over the Ukraine. All of this combined with the fact that there large, unhappy minorities who felt they had ended up in the "wrong" country, created a lot of instability and bad blood. As such, they did not band together as French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau had hoped, leaving them vulnerable to a resurgent Germany eager to reclaim lands that were, by many lights, rightfully theirs.

4) The Franco-British entente essentially treated Soviet Russia like a leper, in spite of the fact that Stalin was himself worried about a possibly-resurgent Germany. There is even the possibility that the USSR would have supported a military solution to the Sudeten crisis(probably for a price. Stalin did nothing out of the good of his heart). The Munich Agreement convinced the Soviets that the Entente wasn't serious about standing up to Germany, and they decided to get out of the way by signing the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.(of course, it didn't work out like that).

5) The U.S. wasn't terribly interested in any of this. Also, the 1929 stock market crash wrecked the global economy. Economic hardship helped extremists like Hitler at the polls, and made the French and British even less eager to act aggressively.

6)They initially thought Hitler was a cook and a crank and not a threat. Moreover, they (initially) had Mussolini on their side(Mussolini's threat of war caused Hitler to back-down from his first attempt at annexing Austria). Mussolini, being a power-mad megalomaniac, was willing to take actions the French and British weren't. However, Hitler and Mussolini soon came to an understanding.

People were tired of war after the first World War. Hitler thrived on war fatigue.