AP Euro Notes Sec 27-1 pp. 842 -855 Nalani Story THE DEEPENING OF THE EUROPEAN CRISIS: WW II PRELUDE TO WAR (1933-1939) ---the efforts at collective security in the 1920s---the League of Nations, the attempts at disarmament, the pacts and the treaties---all proved meaningless in view of the growth of Nazi Germany and its deliberate scrapping of the postwar settlement in the 1930s ---World War II was largely made possible by the failure of Britain and France to oppose strongly flagrant German violations of the Treaty of Versailles The Path to War (1937-1939) at a secret conference with his military leaders on November 5, 1937, Hitler stated that Germany?s ultimate goal must be the conquest of living space in the east