Britain and France for taking Germans away from their country in places like Danzig and Alsace-Lorraine created even more instability.All these factors, ignored by those who created the treaty, easily allowed a man named Adolf Hitler to come to power. Hitler was a very charismatic leader, an excellent speaker, and was offering solutions to the economic and social hardships of Germany, combined with national pride. The German people immediately were willing to join his cause, no matter how radical it was. Soon, Hitler began to remilitarize Germany, planning to regain the territories lost with the Versailles Treaty, with great support from the German people. As for the League of Nations, which was formed from many of the allied countries in World War I it was unable to do anything. Britain and France were often to busy worrying about their own economic and social problems to worry about foreign affairs, yet alone fight another war. Hitler had carefully analyzed the League's reactions toward other aggression at the time. When Japan invaded Manchuria, the League let it pass. Similarly, when Mussolini attacked Ethiopia in 1935, the Allies only imposed economic sanctions on Italy, which were actually ignored by most League members. If the League of Nations would have been stronger, perhaps with help from the United States, aggression by Germany, Italy and Japan could have been prevented. But the U.S was still angry that their opinions that Germany were getting treated unfairly were ignored at Versailles, and maintained a somewhat neutral policy. Hitler and Germany were able to take over the Rhineland, the Saarland, the Sudetenland, (which had been given to the nation of Czechoslovakia by the peace settlements) and unify with Austria with the League left only to watch. Finally, on the 1st of September 1939, just 20 years after the end of World War I, Hitler invaded Poland. The Treaty of Versailles had failed; Europe was once again at war....
