The increased energy gained by the North Atlantic Region can be attributed to a number of different sources. However, there are two crucial factors that stand out above the rest. Both events fall between the time of the United States entry into World War I in 1917, and end a few years after the World War II immediate repercussions are resolved, in about 1952. The role of America throughout both World Wars is the most important in regard to the energy shift. Without America providing an impossible number of soldiers the Germans weren’t able to match in WWI, it could have gone on much longer and of course could have had an alternate ending. The other …show more content…
In Italy, there is Benito Mussolini. Germany, of course is Adolf Hitler, and perhaps one of the biggest threats to the United States, is Japan. Japan was newly revolutionized and had seen a new form of government take place. It was comprised of many military personnel in high ranking political positions now. They held a substantial amount of influence over the current emperor and were able to persuade him of the actions they deemed necessary for their expansion. Besides Germany’s need for a dramatic rebuild of the state, the main goal of all of these regimes was …show more content…
The Germans saw this and deliberately broke the Versailles Treaty and invaded Poland. Neither, Britain, France, nor the United States, felt the need or didn’t want to use resources to take action against Germany, from that point on weakness is seen in the League of Nations and all havoc breaks loose. The similarity between all of these regimes is that they all made controversial decisions that didn’t hold the support of all of its citizens, (i.e. Germany exterminating Jews, and Japan torturing non-military citizens of China). At one point, there was a plot by citizens to assassinate Hitler, and many Japanese deny the Rape of Nanking to this day. As history shows, aggressive Totalitarianism repeatedly fails in government. The goals always seem to be very controversial and unattainable, causing others to take notice and intervene. All of these regimes fell shortly after the war ended and they never bothered to reform that type of