The war on the western front in 1915 became trench warfare, putting Britain in a bad position. The British had lost the battle at Gallipoli against the Ottomans but refused to give up. When Britain realized that the war was not going anywhere, she talked the Arabs into fighting against the Ottoman...
The war planners were faced with planning a two-front war against Germany, Italy, and Japan. ... The Americans would take the Western flank closest to Cherbourg while the British operated to the east on the approaches of Caen-Alencon, France. ...
This was in 1933 and here Britain forsook Eastern Europe as low on its priritys to Germany in return for the British Empire. 2) Anglo-Naval agreement breaking the stresa front 3) No real strong brit action at Abyssinia 4) No stance against Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland 5) No intervention of the Spanish civil war During the 1930s Britain and France also lost a very influential former ally Mussolini .The Spanish civil war in 1931 can be viewed as a microcosm of the European situation. ... The western powers had reached the point where war was the only option and therefore it need...
