“Failure of the United States to maintain effective neutrality in WWI led directly to the postwar conditions that resulted in the rise of the Nazis and then the initiation of WWII.”
Not according to current curricula.... Students are being taught that it was the “unfair” terms and conditions that were applied to Germany after WWI that started the second world war.
Well it certainly had something to do with it. The French and British kept their boot on Germany’s neck long after WWI was over. And the Germans, being disciplined and proud, didn’t like it too much. You can argue with it, but Hitler’s rise had a lot to do with the conditions people were living under.
Interesting how, nearly 70 years after WWII, which left Germany as a divided, destroyed nation... who is economically ruling Europe? The German work ethic is constant, and won’t keep them down for long.