HIST 405N Week 6 Discussion 2: World War II (United States History)

HIST 405N Week 6 Discussion 2: World War II (United States History). Hitler acquired were Mussolini and Italy with the idea of restoring Germany’s power by expanding his empire (Keene, Cornell, & O'Donnell, 2013). Once Hitler felt more stable, he went and took over Austria in 1938 and then went and took over Czechoslovakia in 1939 when the League of Nations di not nothing to stop him (Keene, Cornell, & O'Donnell, 2013). Even though the European countries did not want to go to war again, countries such as Italy and Germany were aggressively taking over neighbors to build armies, which were not moves toward peace. On the other hand, Britain and France wanted to maintain the peace through “appeasement”, thus they were doing everything possible to keep Germany and Hitler happy rather than stopping him because they hope that in doing so there would be no war. However, the “appeasement” only contributed to making Hitler more powerful. Other underlying causes leading to World War II were the Tripartite Treaty, Roosevelt’s neutrality, and the Japanese expansion, which can be further explained in detail as to how it contributed to the wa