(Gay, 147-151).
World War I had a serious domino effect on most of the major countries in Europe. From Italy to France, Russian and Greece, everybody was fighting. Why? Again, is one man really worth an all out European war that America was soon dragged into? Certainly not. .
Soon after all the fighting, all of the spilled blood, all of the wrong was over, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the final Armistice is signed effectively halting the war. Then on June 28th, 1918, 5 years after the Arch Duke's assassination to the day, the Treaty of Versailles was signed restricting Germany of its military size, product development, and stock market. One cannot honestly be subjected to these type of restrictions and not intend to put up a fight, or start another world war. To put such limitations on Germany's way of life, military and otherwise, was like lighting a match to a stick of dynamite, and the resulting explosion was World War II.
Rules are made to be broken, and when the Treaty Of Versailles was put on Germany, they devised a way to abolish it. "In order to devise a way to release themselves from the chains of treaty, Germany needed a door, which was the stock market crash. This door was opened but they needed somebody to walk through it, and his name was Adolf Hitler." (Barr, 78).
Adolf Hitler became Germany's Chancellor on January 30th 1933. This was that explosion that set fires of Nazism and a second World War. .
There are quite possibly only two reasons for justifiable warfare, and one of them was the Holocaust: the mass slaughter of Jews all throughout Europe. The second reason is to attack a country that remained neutral throughout the beginning of World War II. This country is America, primarily Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Thousands of good American soldiers lost their lives in a blind side attack by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941 (Adams, 203).
The attack on Pearl Harbor is what brought America out of neutralism and into WW II.
