Frederick William shared this view and was unwilling to potentially cause a war with such a powerful state. This caused the Frankfurt Parliament to fail because Prussia did not grasp the opportunity to unite and neither did the King, therefore Germany remained divided. Although he desired power, William IV was not willing to put himself and Prussia under control of the Frankfurt Parliament as he distrusted ‘the gentlemen of Frankfurt’. This meant that the Parliament had no real leader, and so lost support because people distrusted the parliament as an influential figure stated he would not be associated with them. This aided in causing the failure of the Parliament because with no real leader, no one could influence the masses or help to make decisions.
It was often the cases of self interest that these two nations resorted too. In Manchuria, Britain and France were unwilling to send their armies nor fleets, in Abyssinia, they did not close the Suez Canal , which could have stopped Mussolini's invasion and they did not ban important war materials such as coal, oil and steel. The USSR was the only country powerful enough to send troops to force the aggressors into accepting the League's wishes, but they weren't in the League. Without the USA, the League was permanently weakened. Had the USA been in the league, Japan wouldn't have conquered Manchuria and Mussolini would have backed off Abyssinia.
Wilson believed the treaty of Versailles should punish Germany but not so harshly that it would someday recover and seek revenge. However Wilson’s main aims were portrayed> through his fourteen points. But perhaps his main goal for post war Europe was to strengthen democracy in Germany so the citizens would not let its leaders cause another war. France suffered enormous damage in WW1. When the war ended the general population of France wanted revenge on Germany.
Churchill believed that in order to guarantee the security of Czechoslovakia, Europe should have held Germany back and Britain and France should have worked together as an alliance. George F. Kennan, an American Secretary of State during the cold war also disagreed with the Munich Agreement. Kennan thought that Chamberlain and Daladier only agreed with Germany’s proposal only because they didn’t want to participate in war. Chamberlain and Daladier wanted to maintain the peace in Europe. (Document 6) As written in The Origins of the Second World War, by A.J.P.
The English-Canadians sought after full conscription like Britain and the United States, while the French-Canadians still did not want any form of conscription. The countries unity was slowly crumbling but still Mackenzie King did not institute conscription. He felt there had to be other ways to solve the emerging problems then conscription. (Cruxton and Wilson, 263). In 1917, Borden felt the lack of troops was so awful that there was no choice but conscription.
During the World War, there were several people who desired to finish the war. President Woodrow Wilson of the US was one of them, who wanted to set the peace with Germany and end war. He created fourteen points, which aimed disarmament and war guilt, limiting forces/military, self-determination, creating League of Nations. These points were written by president Wilson, who believed that he could make a peace among the countries, which would end the great war. Treaty of Versailles was based on his points, but not all of them were successful or followed completely.
Mao criticised Khrushchev for his policies such as de-Stalinisation and his secret speech. He was also very critical of the policy of Peaceful Coexistence as he believed it was a way of being friendly with the United States (the enemy) and also Mao saw it abandoning millions of comrades struggling to free themselves of capitalist and imperialist oppression. This, therefore, made the USSR an ‘enemy’. How could two countries work together if they had such differing beliefs about how to run their countries? This problem had a big contribution to the split as they couldn’t agree on anything, and if they did, it was because their national interests were at risk.
The Treaty of Versailles 1. Woodrow Wilson did not get exactly what he wanted from the treaty but his main term he wanted was the League of Nations, which he did manage to get. Wilson would be displeased with most of the terms of the Treaty because he thought they where far too harsh and thought it would cause Germany to want revenge. Wilson did not achieve many of his aims apart from starting up the League of Nations. Hardly any of Wilsons fourteen points actually happened so Wilson didn’t seem to achieve his aims.
It was then primarily led by Europe at a decline. As it lacked real, confident power, League was mostly relied on goodwill and persuasion which wasn`t enough to keep up motto of collective security strong enough. No permanent army was present either to secure Europe from possible conflicts or to maintain confidence of members. Changing membership sides was also present which , even thought in some cases strengthened the League like joining of countries to support collective security, in some cases it failed to keep
Britain was not prepared to act alone, so the League eventually did nothing. Poland kept Vilna. This was a bad decision made: the League failed to act. A meeting of the Council should have happened and fair decisions made taking into account the perspectives of the two countries. This was the worst of the League’s actions in the 1920s.