Interwar period

Sp. Ch 27 782-9 Chapter 27: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II Prelude to the War (1933-1939) I. Only 20 years after the ?war to end all wars,? Europe plunged back into the nightmare of total war. A. The efforts at collective security in the 1920s?the League of Nations, the attempts at disarmament, the pacts and treaties?all proved meaningless in light of the growth of Nazi Germany and its deliberate scrapping of the postwar settlements in the 1930s. B. France and Britain refused to accept the possibility of another war. The Soviet Union, treated as an outcast by the western powers, had turned in on itself, and the US had withdrawn into isolationism. C. Thus the power vacuum in the heart of Europe encouraged a revived and militarized