Kantor said:
It wasn't the USA's fault as such. The blame lies mainly with Germany, and partially with Britain, France, Italy and Japan. America, however, could quite easily have stopped it from happening. It was the only country in the world that could possibly challenge Germany single-handed, and if America started to fight, everyone else would have, as well. Going further back than that, if the USA had joined the League of Nations, none of this would have started in the first place. |
I don't see how the US joining the League of Nations would of stopped WW2.
The league of nations collapsed because of WW2. Not because of America not being involved.
While never a member the US worked with the league pretty well...
The nations that left... left to start WW2, that would of happened either way.
The League of Nations really wasn't fundamentally different from the UN today... the main differences were Super powers and Nuclear Weapons exist now... and didn't before WW2. Well that and it required unanimous approval rather then just majority approval with out a superpower veto.
There really is nothing the LoN could do to stop a World War. There is nothing the UN could do to stop a World War either. Afterall the Cold war almost got hot... and most assuridly would have without M.A.D..
I feel like your overestimating US military power at the time as well. It took a long time for the US military to gear up and it's main advantage was it wasn't being bombed. The US would still hold said advantage... but would the US in the war sooner change that much?
What if Hitler, facing the US as well realizes he needs Stalin and doesn't betray him?
What if, the United States enters the war in the beggining... and backs hitler?
Not unheard of when you consider FDR's fondnset of Stalin and the fact that the holocaust was not common knowledge. There was a lot of public support for the Axis powers before Pearl Harbor.
