COURSE
HIST405N – United States History
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, consider three (3) of the following events:
- Treaty of Versailles
- Rise of fascism, militarism and imperialism
- Failure of the League of Nations
- Hitler and the Nazi Party
- The Lend Lease Act
- Japanese expansion and the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Based on your three selections, choose two (2) of the following and craft a response for your selections:
- Assess if the United States foreign policy during the 1930s helped to promote World War II. Could the United States have prevented the outbreak of World War II? If so, how? If not, why not?
- Explain if the United States, despite neutrality, aided the Allies against the Axis powers.
- Analyze if the use of atomic (nuclear) weapons to defeat enemies in war is a setback for democracy (President Truman’s decision to drop the atom bomb on Japan).
SOLUTION
The Treaty of Versailles, for several different reasons, was a highly contentious agreement. Although it was supposed to be the treaty that ended World War I which was placed in order to promise no further war, the Treaty of Versailles brought good and bad things (OpenStax, 2019). Indirectly, the settlement was the catalyst for World War II, helping to sow the seed for the violence that would occur in the Second World War. In the development of the global Great Depression and World War II, the Treaty of Versailles played a significant role….Please click the icon below to access entire solution at $5