World War II Responses

Responding to Classmate 1

Hello,

Thank you for sharing your post. The War would have ended differently if the US had not involved itself. For starters, I believe that the War would have gone on for years, and that would have had a negative economic impact on Great Britain while the US would flourish from the business brought by the Lend and Lease Act. Nonetheless, WWII was a blessing in disguise after it ended because it made the US a superpower. If WWII had continued, that would expand Germany’s power, thus leaving the US isolated. The Pacific and Atlantic oceans provided a temporary buffer that protected the US from a would-be-powerful German dominating Europe. The buffer would become useless at one point, and the US would have to trade with Europe under Hitler’s terms (National WW2 Museum, 2019). So I agree that it was inevitable that the US had to join in the war.

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The National World War II Museum (2019). The Great Debate. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/great-debate

Responding to Cassidy Ginter

Hello Cassidy,

Thank you for sharing your post. One thing about Hitler that makes him stand out from all other fascists since then and before him is that he was out to get into a war. Negotiating with Hitler was futile, and from retrospect, Historians agree that the 1930s appeasement policies failed and that using force was the only means of removing Hitler from power. No matter the number of concessions made to Hitler, over the 1930s, he still wanted more and more war than anything. HWaranted worldwide domination at the cost of millions of lives (Taschka, 2019). This makes me wonder how different Hitler was from the current COVID-19 scenario we find ourselves in. Hundreds of thousands of lives are lost as the world plays blame games and mud-slinging amidst seeking to be the only powers that have the COVID cure. No matter the concessions made, those one / two / three countries are out to prove their worth to the rest of the world while people continue to suffer.

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References

Taschka, S. (2019). Trump-Hitler comparisons are too easy and ignore the murderous history. https://theconversation.com/trump-hitler-comparisons-too-easy-and-ignore-the-murderous-history-92394

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World War II Responses

Compare your selections and analysis of selections with those of your peers. If they chose different events, examine how yours are similar and different. If they chose the same events, build on their posts by providing additional information about the events that you have not already noted in your post.
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Classmate 1’s Post

Hello Professor and Classmates

This week we are analyzing World War 2. In the 1930s, the United States was dealing with the Great Depression after the end of World War 1. At the end of World War 1, The Treaty of Versailles was presented to the United States Senate; the treaty was amended and later thrown out. Among the decisions of the Senate came the League of Nations, which was meant to allow all nations to come together on war decisions. Because theWarague failed, the United States would eventually be drawn back into European affairs and conflict. The failure of the League of Nations drew the United States into World War 2 against the Axis,, Germany, Italy and Japan. The United States could not have prevented World War 2, as the fights began between The Axis and Europeans, and just like in World War 1, the US involvement was inevitable.

After World War 1 was over, and the German military had been dismantled, a new leader was adopted, and Adolf Hitler spent the early 1930s rebuilding the German forces. According to Corbett, Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations in 1933. (2014) In 1938, Hitler’s military invaded Austria and thus struck the smouldering embers for another world war. According to ushistory.org, the Axis had a firm hold on Europe and Asia until the United States entered and closed the ring around Nazi Germany. Once again, without United States’ involvement and using the atomic bomb, the war would have been heard differently.

America in the Second World War. Retrieved from: https://www.ushistory.org/us/51.asp (Links to an external site.)

Corbett, P. S., Volker, J., Lund, J. M., Phannestiel, T., Waskiewicz, S., & Vickery, P. (2014). U.S. history. Houston, TX: OpenStax. Retrieved from https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/1-introduction

Classmate 2’s Post

Professor and Class,

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty said to be the conclusion of WWI between the Allied Powers and Germany. Essentially, the treaty spoke of full responsibility given to Germany and proposed consequences related to the country’s involvement in the War. Territory, Wares up to $31.4 billion and demilitarization, including cutting its military to nearly 100,000 soldiers and inability to house any submarines or navy, were enacted against Germany due to the Treaty. The Treaty consisted of 5 main terms and was rejected by the USA senate regarding objections to the League of Nations (History, 2009).

Hitler and the Nazi party developed due to the WWI conclusion and the Treaty of Versailles. Germany felt the treaty was unnecessary and unfair by placing reprimands on the country wh, ich they could never pay. Hitler became an idol in the eyes of Germany to take back their dignity and power. The country was weak at this time and, therefore, susceptible to influence; Hitler blamed this vulnerability and shame on Jews and Marxists. In 1921, Hitler took over the Aryan conceptual practice and group, leaving them the German Workers` (Nazi) Party (History, 2009).

The Lend Lease was a policy that allowed the USA to sell, lease, loan, or give any type of military equipment or weapons to any nation which was considered a benefit or “Defense of the USA.” This policy was significant because the USA acknowledged that they were not neutral. The Lend Lease lasted four years between 1941 and 1945 and transferred over 45 billion of military weapons and equipment to Britain, the Soviet Union, China and other allies (Openstax, 2019).

I believe the USA acted as an ally against Axis powers by enacting the Lend-Lease program, among other things. Without the Lend-Lease program, billions of dollars in weaponry and equipment would have never been administered and provided to soldiers to defend themselves and their countries against the Axis countries. Of course, it is believed that a lot more could have been done to assist the allies; however, many people fail to consider that the USA was recovering from WWI and the Great Depression (Openstax, 2019).

After assessing the use of atomic bombs in that time frame, I believe that it was essential to the success of American survival as Japan was extraordinarily honourable and was in such a state of peril that they would have stopped at nothing. Japan at that time felt as if they had nothing to lose; they would have continued to fight regardless of mass casualties, even in their own country. I feel that the decision to use an atomic bomb should not be democratic or a public choice. There are aspects to many wars that the general public does not acknowledge by choice or by oblivion–there are affairs that many populations consider with racism and irrationality. The public is too invested and emotional at times to make choices so significant and detrimental regarding foreign affairs. The democracy of the matter is that we, the public, choose officials and members of Congress to make those choices in the representation of the rest of the population. Therefore, I do not believe it is a setback in democracy.