World War 2 Dbq Analysis

The Causes of World War II
Prior to 1939, the world was at somewhat a period of peace together with no major fighting happening across oceans. But as new dictator-like leaders rose and many eager to expand their land to support their growing population, the only answer to the problems was war. The world was plunged into WWII in 1939, due to the ineffective overruling of the League of Nations and the most effective response to the aggression caused was collective security.
The world was plunged into WWII with the negligence of the League of Nations which caused the rise of fascist and greedy leaders. The rise of the powerful leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini who took over the world can be completely blamed on the League of Nations since their lack of action when fascist leaders attacked before WWII helped encourage them to attack more viciously and for a greater purpose

during WWII.

For example, as shown in Document 2, emperor of Ethiopia asked the League for help to stop the invasion done there by the Italians but the League of Nation’s response was absent. They did not do anything to stop even the future violence from the Italians simply choosing to not be involved. In another situation, from Document 4, Hitler demands for Sudetenland which was a part of Czechoslovakia and the result that the League came up with was to make an appeasement. With the appeasement, the League hoped for a continued “period of peace” but instead it showed the fascist leaders that the League was not an active committee of enforcers because they were afraid to agitate the “peace” so the leaders took that as an incentive to start doing as they pleased. Ambitious fascists leaders like Hitler, wanted to restore the former glory of his nation, Germany so launched various invasions to expand their living space to support their growing population. In a similar case is Japan who slaughtered and abused their way to more land. For example, in an article from Wikipedia about the

Nanking Massacre, we can see how brutal and heartless the Japanese were by raping women of all ages until they died and killing anyone in their way; basically doing anything to gain land. This greed for more land, also made other nations join WWII, some disgusted by such actions done by the Japanese or saw it as inspiration to gain more power. Thus, the world was plunged into WWII because of the lack of action the League of Nations did to prevent the rise of fascist leaders.
With the past ineffectiveness of the League of Nations, major powers during WWII were virtually unstoppable. However the most effective response to the aggression still was to have a collective security. The collective securities was what was left of the League of Nations which included nations such as England and France. Instead of relying on useless appeasements as they had done before, some such as British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill suggested to instead “hold back the aggressor” as shown in Document 6. As an alternative of sitting back and letting aggressive action unfold, Churchill’s proposition was to get involved and take a stand to try and stop the aggressors. In addition, we can see that appeasements did no good to anyone except the party that is being given into. As stated in Document 7, it is a “desperate act” and actually unnecessary. In the case of the Munich Agreement, if it had not been signed, the Czech people could have held off the Germans with their strong defenses and the League could have even attempted to remove Hitler. Therefore, choosing to have a collective security is more effective than an appeasement.
In conclusion, the world was plunged into WWII because of the negligence by the League of Nation but the most effective response to the damage done by the League was for the League to stay together to actually take action. The collective security of the League of Nations was the best answer to stopping the aggression from fascist leaders who rose in result of past ineffectiveness of the League of Nations.