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HIST405N – United States History
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, consider three (3) of the following events:
- Treaty of Versailles
- Rise of fascism, militarism and imperialism
- Failure of the League of Nations
- Hitler and the Nazi Party
- The Lend Lease Act
- Japanese expansion and the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Based on your three selections, choose two (2) of the following and craft a response for your selections:
- Assess if the United States foreign policy during the 1930s helped to promote World War II. Could the United States have prevented the outbreak of World War II? If so, how? If not, why not?
- Explain if the United States, despite neutrality, aided the Allies against the Axis powers.
- Analyze if the use of atomic (nuclear) weapons to defeat enemies in war is a setback for democracy (President Truman’s decision to drop the atom bomb on Japan).
Solution
One of the selections that I made is the treaty of Versailles. The treaty of Versailles spelled out the punishment that Germany was going to face due to the role that this nation played in the outbreak of the First World War. Ideally, all the demons of the global war were cast on Germany. As result, this nation was punished severely. For example, it lost most of it colonized territories which were placed under the stewardship of the League of Nations (Corbett et al., 2017)..………….please follow the link below to purchase the solution at $5