About hitler

I was going to reply to this fellow’s question,…
But then I thought to just get a post out of it.

Please don't http://www.modernsurf.com/spam/spamanm.gif Upxl.

Hitler didn't cause WWII, but he did make it into a world (ie inter continental) war. Hitler tiring out american troops made them not bothered to fight Japan though... and just nuke them.

Finally, my first accusation of spamming.

K. then.

Indirectly he did some good.

He'd shown the world that the wrong man on the wrong place at the wrong time can have devastating consequences.

And some technology that came out of WWII has proven to be very useful.
Especially when you want to blow things up.

The EU. :inquisitive:

.:no: .

I thought the idea had been around for a while anyway. The UN was post-WWII but just a continuation of the LoN.

I probably get spanked for asking this but,… LoN?
:sweatdrop:

League of Nations. The post World War I pet of president Wilson that the US never agreed to, and never really did anything. It died sometime in the mid-thirties iirc.

I'll probably get spanked, but what's iirc or afaik?

The League didn't officially die so early, but it lost all credibility after Japan and Italy invaded countries and nothing happened to either. It was rubbish because only Britain and France were left, and they actually wanted to help Mussolini. The US senate went back to isolation, the Germans joined a bit and left, the Russians joined latest and got booted.

[QUOTE=Tiberius]The League didn't officially die so early, but it lost all credibility[QUOTE]

That's right, the LoN wasn't really effective for several reasons.

1. It never had a stable membership. Countries entered and exited all the time. In comparison with the UN, as far as I know only 1 country (Indonesia I think) has left the organization but it rejoined a year later.

2. Its inventor the USA never became part of the organization. The USA may not yet have been the superpower it became after WWII but it was still a major power, a sleeping giant.

3. The LoN treaty was part of the peace treaties of Versailles. It was also seen in that light, as an organization of the victors.

4. France and England (the major powers as said above) thought that by not taking serious steps against Germany for its actions (annexing Austria, its role in the Spanish civil war, ...) they could prevent another Great war. By not condemning (in a serious manner) Germany the LoN failed to achieve its most important goal namely peacekeeping.

On the other hand the LoN did have a purpose as a sort of experiment, a sort of training ground upon which the UN could be build.

The LoN also failed because it didn't have it's own army, and it's two strongest powers (GBR and France) weren't willing to commit their armies.

Without an army, the main threats from the League were economic sanctions. These were poorly executed and usually had little or no effect. The Italian Invasion of Abyssinia could have been stopped if they sanctioned oil from Italy. IIRC, they sanctioned everything but oil. :doh:

P.S. IIRC = If I remember (or recall) correctly
AFAIK = As far as I know

No sanctions occurred. Britain and France actually offered more in an attempt to get Italy to stopped. What they managed to do was encourage Italy and show Hitler that attacking others would result in no aggression from the reluctant countries.