The League did nothing except protest against Germany’s past aggressive behavior and Japan and Mussolini’s invasion. All this caused Hitler to be more confident that nothing will happen if they were to invade Poland. Britain and France were also at fault for appeasing Germany. When Germany had started its rearmament and invaded Czechoslovakia, they did nothing as they wanted to appease Hitler as they believe they were not strong enough to defeat Hitler and they fear setting economic embargo on Germany would affect their own economy as they have not recovered from World War 1 and the Great Depression. Hitler was a gambler rather than a planner.
The League of Nations was founded in 1919, right after the end of WWI, and was one of Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points. Its four aims were to: discourage aggression from any nation; encourage countries to co-operate; encourage nations to disarm and improve the living and working conditions of people in all parts of the world. On the one hand, the League of Nations failed because it was doomed from the start and they were unable to deal with militarism and rearmament in the 1930s. On the other hand, in the 1920s the League of Nations enjoyed some success. I believe that even though the League of Nations had some successes, in the end the League of Nations was a failure as it could not prevent World War Two from starting in 1939.
Besides that Cheddi Jagan was a communist, John F. Kennedy did not have a valid reason to overthrow the British Guiana government. Kennedy was resolute in his decision and sought to deny Jagan and the PPP any power. Cheddi Jagan won the 1961 elections against the socialist Forbes Burnham, who Kennedy supported. Jagan’s victory made Kennedy believe that the country would allow for the growth of communism in the Western Hemisphere. Despite the United States’ concerns for the creation of a communist country, the British were unwilling to interfere.
Italy and Japan stayed for a while and withdrew later. Germany and Russia were excluded from the League of Nations. USA decided not to join the League because they wanted to return to their policy of isolationism. So the decisions were made mostly by Britain and France, who rarely agreed with each other. This essay is going to evaluate why the League failed not because of Britain and France, but due to the structure of the League.
They had little choice but to surrender and accept the terms of the treaty no matter how harsh they were going to be. Germany had reason to believe the treaty would not be a majorly harsh one. Due to Germanys defeat the Kaiser had gone and they had a new democratic government put in place during 1919. This new government where not to be blamed for the war and would expect to receive support from the other countries involved in the treaty of Versailles but this did not really happen. The newly formed German democratic government saw the Versailles Treaty as a dictated peace (Diktat).
However, the reasons for US involvement in Korea can’t be explained simply by their interests in Japan. The USA was anti-appeasement as appeasement had failed in the past and they had learnt their lesson from World War 2. Kim in North Korea reminded the USA of Hitler, as Hitler could never be appeased and invaded anyway, just like Kim did when North Korea attacked the South. Also, Containment was part of US foreign policy in 1950, where Communism had to be contained to stop it spreading. This was similar to the Domino Theory
The League of Nations was an organization thought of by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of United States. He thought of the group of nations to be working together to maintain peace and balance throughout the world. He wanted the League to be based on his 14 idealistic points but was rejected as France wanted heavy compensation from Germany. Also America opposed on joining the league as they didn’t want to get involved in the business of Europe. This was the weakness of the league.
An example of these was the non importation movement. In this movement, Americans stopped buying goods from the British goods as a protest against stamp tax. This action was not defiant in nature and did not call for punishment from the British government. On the contrary, it put a lot of pressure on the government and forced it to react by repealing the stamp act (Greene & Pole, 2004). Violent reactions were, therefore, not effective as they received violent reaction from the government and did not bring the desired change to the colonists.
It would also not have been popular amongst the American people as the majority did not despise communism so much that war was a possibility and so the idea did not have the peoples backing. Another factor which meant that the cold war was not inevitable by 1945 was the fact that the current leaders Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill were holding peaceful negotiations including the naughty document a document that was drawn up in Greece between Stalin and Churchill before the end of the war to divide of the land they had won. This suggests that at this time cold war was completely avoidable. Not only were the countries willing to be peaceful but they even began negotiating the terms of their victory and were able to agree on the division of Europe temporarily. Though they began they agreed upon the divisions they had made after 1945 this became a large cause of tension the most famous being the berlin wall which was an attempt by the communists to starve supplies from western berlin.
In order to ease the tension between Catholics and Protestants, in 1921 London decided to allow the Northern Irish to govern themselves. However, the Protestants, as the majority, kept the Catholics out of government the whole time, fearing that their participation would lead to the Protestant incorporation into the Irish Republic. Even though Northern Ireland (NI) was already the poorest part of the UK, the Catholics were significantly disadvantaged. In 1968 they, supported by many Protestants, demonstrated on the streets, demanding fair participation in political and economic life. Ulster loyalists