Was World War 2 avoidable

Answer 1

I believe any fight is avoidable, if the possible participants are willing to compromise.

The leaders of the world, namely Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt and Hirohito were not compromisers.

Compromising w/men like Hitler and Stalin was very dangerous. Churchill and Roosevelt knew this. Hirihito was in no position to compromise, his country was about a year away form destitute.

The personalities of the leaders at the time, in my opinion, made WW2 unavoidable. That's not to say that they were all war mongers. Hitler was, yes, and thus set the stage in Europe for no compromise.

Hirohito needed to act to secure vital commodities that Japan lacked, from the rest of Asia. His back was to the wall and the Emperor (would never admit defeat)

Based on all known facts of today, any average researcher would have to conclude that Churchill and Roosevelt forced the war on the other primary leaders, as opposed to the other way around.

Roosevelt obviously forced the Japanese into desperation, which is exactly what he hoped for and wanted.

Chancellor Hitler stated, on record, before crowds, and on film and radio, that he did NOT want either a broader war or war with the British Empire (which he was convinced, any sane British prime minister would not see dissolved and broken up by forcing a war, as actually happened to the British Empire).

i have a short and simple answer to this: no in my opinion because of the treaty of Versailles. since Germany was definetely one of the main countries involved, they were looking for trouble and reprisal. they wanted to justify themselves in another war especially because of their humiliation in WWI. also, tensions had been enormous and hard to avoid.

Everyone let's smell the coffee here. Hitler and Stalin. Everyone should know and believe that one way or another one of these murdering bastards would have started a war. If your still wondering hell noooooooooooooo was WWII avoidable.