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Causes Of Disarmament

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Disarmament is the act of withdrawing military forces and weapons for the sake of peace and prohibiting war.
The League of Nations wanted all of the 60 countries that attended the 1932 Disarmament Conference at Geneva to stop aggression. Germany wanted the terms that restricted their armed forces size to be completely abolished. The main reason for the League's failure of disarmament was that both Germany and France would not be in agreement. France would reduce the size of their armed forces only under the condition that Germany terminates and seizes all of their threats towards France.
In 1933, there was a conference held by the League about global disarmament. Hitler had planned on increasing the size of his army from the 100,000 men mark …show more content…

Members of the League realized the urgency of the problem in the stir of the Manchurian crisis. This finally lead to the awaited disarmament conference in 1932. Due to this conference, there were many things that the League attempted to take care of, but many of these had not worked. For example, the bombing of civilians was to be abolished, but all attempts to agree to abolish planes that were capable of bombing had failed. The statement to abolish manufacturing chemical weapons had also failed. Later, another problem arose, which was what to do with Germany. They have been treated extremely harshly due to the treaty of Versailles but the issue was whether to let Germany rearm to a level closer to all other countries, or for others to disarm to the level of the Germans. The Germans had asked for all countries to disarm to its level to provide equality. When the proposal of equality failed, Germany decided to leave the League of Nations in 1932. They decided to come back to the League in 1933 but then left the League for good in the same year as Hitler went to secretly rearming. The powers now knew that Germany was secretly rearming so they also began to remilitarize. The disarmament struggled for a whole year in the background before completely failing and ending in …show more content…

No one was serious for disarmament, but many people thought that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair towards Germany and that other countries should have agreed to equality by disarming and creating peace between the nations. Germany was later allowed to build up its navy under the circumstance that it remained below 35 percent the size of Britain's navy. This was signed between only Britain and Germany as Britain did not consult any of its allies for this decision and it clearly violated the terms set towards Germany by the Treaty of

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