There had been a series of failures that led to the destruction of international peace by 1939. The cause for world war two was because of the invasion of Poland by Germany. Britain and France agreed that after the Munich pact, if Germany were to invade Poland , they would start a war against Hitler. However Hitler could have been stopped a long time before the invasion of Poland however due to the international peace failures he did not stop and no one stopped him. There were many factors that led up to the failure of international peace in 1930.
There were important long term factors which help to explain why war broke out in 1939. One factor was the Versailles Treaty. It was an important factor and one of the reasons there was a war outbreak because Hitler resented it. Hitler hated the treaty because it had weakened Germany’s armed forces and had limited their armed troops. The treaty also took parts of Germany and this annoyed Hitler as he believed that all German speaking people should be in Germany as we see in the Anschluss.
All these factors and many more led to the abolishment of the treaty. The treaty of Versailles was originally set up to weaken Germany to protect neighbouring countries from another war however Hitler went against this cause for international peace. By 1934 Hitler had begun going against the treaty by re capturing German territory as well as re arming…
The failure of the League of Nations in the 1930s also contributed towards the outbreak of war. This was because the League was proven to only be useful when solving small disputes such as the Vilna, Upper Sileasa…and Corfu. This was good in the short term however when it came to dealing with the bigger more important disputes such as the Manchurian crisis the league was useless and lazy.
For example, when the league had the opportunity to assist Japan during the Manchurian crisis their actions were very slow when they started to