World Wars

At the end of WWI, the defeated Germans and their allies were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty, which imposed harsh reparatory fees on the defeated nations and crippled their economies, but also gave rise to the League of Nations, was never signed by the United States. When Hitler took power in Germany, he repeatedly violated the treaty, but since the countries of Europe were so devastated from World War I, the League chose to practice appeasement instead of stopping the tyrannical ruler in power. Eventually, after a period of appeasement, the aspirations of the German and Japanese rulers became too great, and WWII started. The United States, which tried to remain neutral, got dragged into the war due to a number of reasons, one of which was the bombing at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. The United States quickly went to work on a new weapon of mass destruction in the Manhattan Project. By the time an atomic bomb had been successfully detonated in Alamogordo, th...