The Locarno Conference (1925) produced a treaty guarantee of the German-French boundary and an arbitration agreement between Germany and Poland. At the Washington Conference of 1921-2, the principal naval powers agreed to limit their navies according to a fixed ratio. The League’s powers were limited to persuasion and various levels of moral and economic sanctions that the members were free to carry out as they saw fit. The first was the establishment (1920) of the League of Nations as a forum in which nations could settle their disputes. The Failure of Peace Effortsĭuring the 1920s, attempts were made to achieve a stable peace. Next the politacal takeover of Hitler, because we all know that the takeover of Hitler in Germany contributed greatly to the war.
Japanese militarism spread rapidly throughout Japan, being it is that Japan has an emperor but at this time the military had more of a say than the crowned emperor. The Treaty of Versailles was a complete and almost a total failure due to the distaste of many of the allied powers. To Japanese militarism, to Political takeover from Hitler here are some of the reasons for World war II. There are many different cause for World War II.