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Because they weren't sure they could win a war against the Italians, who had established ties with Germany. The Italian leader Mussolini dreamed of building a colonial empire in Africa like those of Britain and France, and had a formidable navy.
Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland on Sept 1, 1939. Britain and France had signed a treaty with Poland, prior to this, which obligated that both countries declare war on Germany. Actually, the Soviet Union invaded the eastern region of Poland about a week or so later, as stipulated in the Germa-Russian treaty in Aug 1939.
Between Germany and Great Britain there was militarism. When Great Britain raised their military and made it better so did Germany. As a result of this Great Britain did the same. It kept going back and forth like this. This action is called militarism.
Hitler had been expanding into the Sudetenland and other areas of Europe, Britain had told Hitler that a line would be drawn in Poland. Any attempt to invade Poland by Germany would result in war. On September 1st Hitler did just that and consequently war broke out.
The armies of both France and Germany had more than doubled between 1870 and 1914 and there was a fierce competition between Britain and Germany for mastery of the seas. The British had introduced the 'Dreadnought', an effective battleship, in 1906. The Germans soon followed suit introducing their own battleships. The German, Von Schlieffen also drew up a plan of action that involved attacking France through Belgium if Russia made an attack on Germany.
* They were ill-prepared. * They wanted to remain at peace. * No Casus Belli existed for such an action.
Well Italy declared war on n Briton and France because the French and British declared war on Germany and Italy was a key strong ally to Nazi Germany
German troops invaded Poland on September 1st 1939. On September 3rd, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Germany then went on to attack many other European countries including Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, France, Luxemburg, Britain, Russia and many more Baltic and East European countries.
On September 29 & 30, 1938, Germany, Britain, France, and Italy met in Munich to decide what action, if any, to take concerning Germany's aggression in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia had no say in the discussion. BTW, the only delegate who did not need an interpreter was Mussolini. Source: "Il Duce: The Rise and Fall of Benito Mussolini" by Richard B. Lyttle.
Because they weren't sure they could win a war against the Italians, who had established ties with Germany. The Italian leader Mussolini dreamed of building a colonial empire in Africa like those of Britain and France, and had a formidable navy.
Germany and the Soviet Union jointly invaded Poland on Sept 1, 1939. Britain and France had signed a treaty with Poland, prior to this, which obligated that both countries declare war on Germany. Actually, the Soviet Union invaded the eastern region of Poland about a week or so later, as stipulated in the Germa-Russian treaty in Aug 1939.
France didn't do anything, rather it failed to take steps to prevent the war. Germany spent the decade of the 1930's building up its military in violation of the Versaille Treaty, announcing for all to hear that it was willing and able to use force to take whatever it wanted from its neighbors, and that it wanted everything, and finally threatening force to swallow Austria and Czechoslovakia. through all this France, and Britain, took no action whatsoever and signed whatever Hitler wanted them to to legitimise Germany's aggressions. only when Germany openly attacked Poland did France and Britain finally realize they would have to fight in order to stop Nazi aggression. The Germans caused the war by attacking their neighbors. France and Britain did nothing to anyone, but they failed to act against Germany soon enough to prevent a wider war.Michael Montagne
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France would only take action against Germany if brittain helped them. Britain declined and so nothing was done against the Germans. If France had acted against Germany, Germany would have been in no fit state to defend them and the 3rd Reich could have been over. bus due to Britain's policy of appeasement nothing was done. this gave Germany a strong border in the west and enabled them to focus their attention on the east, especially the sudetenland in chezoslovakia, as Germany continued to re-arm and Britain continued to appease them until September 3rd 1939 when ww2 began. euan999@hotmail.co.UK
Germany experimented with some models, but mostly used captured British and French tanks.The answer to this specific question is: Great Britain, France, Germany, and the USA.Britain and France separately designed and built Tanks in 1915-16. In 1918 Germany produced 20 of her own but also used about 50 captured British Tanks. The USA used Tanks allocated by both France and Great Britain in 1918.Although a number of other countries considered the idea, no other nation used any Tanks in action during WWI.
Germany's goal was to control all of Europe. At the beginning of the war, it was only at war with France and Britain, as well as Poland, but that country was quickly defeated. To further its goal, Germany invaded France first because an invasion of Britain would take more planning and it would be suicide to get another nation involved while the only nation bordering it that wasn't its ally or extremely neutral (Switzerland) was still in action. It knew that a two front war was what made them lose World War I.
In 1938 Britain had signed a Treaty with Germany where Germany promised to undertake no further conquests. The conquests so far had anyway been mostly territories that had been part of Germany itself until 1918, and the union with Austria had broad support in Austria - Austria had even asked for that union as far back as 1919, only to be refused by the Allies.Britain was moreover woefully unprepared for war in 1938 and its Government knew its forces and equipment (apart from the Navy) to be inferior to that of Germany. Moreover, France at the time would absolutely not do anything to antagonize Germany and the US was firmly isolationist. As a consequence Britain would be utterly alone to fight Germany's superior army. So in a way it was solid good sense at the time to appease Germany, rather than to fight it.In 1939, Britain and France had together guaranteed Poland's independence, so Britain now knew it had an ally which it considered (wrongly, as it was to turn out) a strong military force. Britain even then was more or less forced into war by Germany's invasion of Poland. For almost a year afterwards Britain nor France gave any follow-up to their declaration of war, only to be forced into action by Hitler's invasion of France a year later.