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[I rephrased my question]
I know Hitler violated the Versailles Treaty. I know HOW he did it. What i don't know is WHY no country held him accountable for it/ stopped him?
England? USA? France? Any of the hundreds of countries who knew what was going on!! What were their reasons for not doing anything?
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VERY simply,
no one stopped him because they didn't want a war - it was called appeasement. They thought by 'appeasing' Hitler, they would stop him starting another war, because the first had been so terrible. Appeasement literally meant avoiding war at all costs, even if it meant letting Hitler have what he wanted. Later, they held the Munich Conference where they told Hitler to stop invading countries - he agreed, and shortly after took Czechoslovakia for his own. At this point they were forced to act and later on they declared war on Germany (that is Britain and Co.)
Appeasement was Neville Chamberlain's the current prime minister's of the times policy and was put in place because they thought war with Germany should be the last possible option. However, it is admitted they let Germany go too far. Had the League Of nations Been efficient, they could have effectively stopped them through peaceful methods but many wars beforehand like the Manchurian Crisis and the Abyssinian War had made the League ineffectual.
Anyways, appeasement didn't go down too well after the war started. People thought it had been pointless. Chamberlain resigned soon afetr and made way for Churchill.
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World War 1 was supposed to be the first and last great war. Everyone did have an idea what was happening with Hitler, but they didn't want to go to war because they knew how devastating way was, and how it is often fought for the wrong reasons.
WW1 was started by the Germans attempting to invade France, and turned into a global war. When politicians of the late 30s looked back on this event, they realized that this war was really over land, and basically completely pointless. The entire thing was fought in trenches over a few hundred kilometers of mud (or some other relatively small amount).
When the Germans again invaded various parts of Europe, it didn't seem to be, at first, serious to start such a potentially devastating global war on. As opposed to starting a war, the English and Canadian Prime minister decided to negotiate with Hitler. Hitler would tell them something, eg. that he would not invade Belgium, and then he would. Political leaders did not expect him to outright lie like that.
As well, Hitler was allowed to have such a control over his own people because the Germans were bitter over the unfair conditions imposed on them by the treaty of Versailles. Hitler won these people over by convincing them that he hated the treaty and would make Germany great again. He was also an amazing orator - anyone who listened to him was pretty much brainwashed into doing whatever he said.
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'Simply put because no one would stand up to them when they started nibbling on the edges of the Treaty and breaking the provisions of it. many sided issue because of the Great Depression, and lack of potical will in England and France. The US had bowed out of the world scene and gone isolationist after the Treay of Versailles, most American political leadership thought it way to far in punishing Germany for a war it didn't start and also that te provisions were mainly based on a wish for revenge by the French for the losses of World War One and previous conflicts wit the Germans such as the Franco-Prussian War. One problem not considered when they did the militaary size/length of service restrictions was that keep the German military both small and for extended periods of time meant you would have a large nucleous of professionals to build a larger military around fairly quickly. Manufacturing of weapons and research were done with the assistance of several countries which allowed German engineers to work in German built factories with the understanding that the knowledge would be shared an design work for civilian and "speciality" aircraft; the ME-109 was a racing plane and not a fighter while the tri-motor aircraft and the Condor were a civilian transport/passenger not military transport or recon/bomber. One of the things that bothered many Germans in and out of the military was the movement and occupation of areas which were German held when the armistice was signned 11 Nov 1918 and the Treaty of Versailles; the armistice was supposed to freeze the militaries in place with no movement. The German Army was withdrawn to German territory to fight rioting and disrest in Germany and the Allied troops, primarily French, then moved into the positions the Germans left which was a violation of te armistice. The Americans did protest but the British refused to take sides and the French did as they pleased which drastically changed to territorial position for negotiation at Versailles and when they were forced to cede land to Russia, which had already signed a seperate peace treaty with Germany and Austria-Hungary prior to the arministice. Those actions did cause widspread feeling of being treated unfairly, cheated and too harshly by many Germans and again this was in and outof the military. WW1 was probably the first time that a country lost a war but held and maintained huge areas of the other sides territory and had no foreign troops with its own border when they lost. One of the reasons for the rise of Hitler, who played heavily on the unfair and illegal treatmen of Germany at the end of WW1 and the subsequent WW2 could be layed fairly at the feet of the French quest to win through peace and treaties what they had been unable to do militarily, the lack of political will of the British government and the withdrawal of the United States from world affairs.
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To be honest, I don't remember. I do remember learning the exact answer to your question sometime my junior year but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
I'm also sure that since your first question was up for so long without any answers then this question probably won't get very many, if any.
So, although I can not tell you exactly what you're looking for, I can tell you that if you ask one of your history teachers they will probably know the answer or at least give you a better understanding of why nobody did anything.
I don't know if it was that we didn't notice until too late, maybe the other countries didn't realize it had gotten so far out of control, maybe they didn't care... the only way to know the "proper" answer is to ask a history teacher or another history buff. I do apologize for wasting your space by answering with something you probably could have come up with on your own. But this is not the first time you've asked and it seemed nobody was helping at all so I just wanted to reinforce how if you discuss this with your teacher or others in history classes they could be of a lot more help than you would think.
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