• petrescatraian
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    1 year ago

    @yogthos Funny, apart from the last one: war already happened in just the last decade, so no one was either willing or having resources to start another war. The borders more/less settled in Europe at the beginning of the 1920s and the world was already financially ruined due to WWI (especially in Germany, where at some point, people were finding it cheaper to use the money itself as wood fire, rather than the wood itself). The former Entente allies also indebted themselves a lot during the war (just as the Central Powers did for that matter), hoping to pay back using war reparations from Germany (which, as I said, was already in debt completely). Germany either way demanded concessions to payments, which it eventually received - and the payment amount for war reparations kept dropping year-by-year until 1938.

    Moreover, this new thing at the time called the League of Nations was in full swing, so countries were more wary of stepping over other countries’ territory - as well as the creation of local defensive alliances such as the Little Entente. These organizations and alliances only in the late 1930s began to crumble, due to the rise of Hitler to power and to events such as Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia - which undermined the former one, while misunderstandings between allies undermined the latter one.