why did the high level of international trade did not reduced the likelihood of war in the beginning of 20th ?
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Many countrys used to use protectionist policys to tax imports of stuff which undercut there own important industries. Other countrys respondid with simmilar measures, eventualy ensuring very little was traded between the main Empires of the day.
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No. All wars have a root cause of economics and then you go from there. Money and emotions run the world.
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I would venture to guess they did not want a show down with the Soviet Union or China at the time. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was enough to justify escalating the war without a declaration.  You would think that sending 50,000 amercian boys and soldier girls to their deaths would've justified a declaration of war, but who am i to raise that argument.
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Because they say the future of what would be needed in world community.  The US, except for President Wilson, was still in the isolated mode.  Without the US support the League of Nations did not last.
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FEATURES OF THE LAST DAYS\n\n “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.” (Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:4) Writer Ernest Hemingway called World War I “the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth.” According to the book The World in the Crucible—1914-1919, this was “a new scope of war, the first total war in the experience of mankind. Its duration, intensity, and scale exceeded anything previously known or generally expected.” Then came World War II, which proved much more destructive than World War I. “The twentieth century,” says professor of history Hugh Thomas, “has been dominated by the machine gun, the tank, the B-52, the nuclear bomb and, finally, the missile. It has been marked by wars more bloody and destructive than those of any other age.” True, much was said about disarmament after the Cold War ended. Still, one report estimates that after proposed reductions some 10,000 to 20,000 nuclear warheads will remain—more than 900 times the firepower used during World War II.\n\n“There will be food shortages.” (Matthew 24:7; Revelation 6:5, 6, 8) Since 1914 there have been at least 20 major famines. Afflicted areas include Bangladesh, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Nigeria, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan. But famine is not always caused by a lack of food. “The world’s food supply over recent decades has grown faster than its population,” concluded a group of agricultural scientists and economists. “But because at least 800 million people remain in deep poverty, . . . they are unable to purchase enough of the abundance to lift them out of chronic malnutrition.” Political meddling is involved in other cases. Dr. Abdelgalil Elmekki of the University of Toronto cites two examples in which thousands starved while their countries were exporting massive amounts of food. The governments seemed far more concerned with raising foreign currency to finance their wars than with feeding their citizens. Dr. Elmekki’s conclusion? Famine is often “a matter of distribution and government policy.”\n\n “Pestilences.” (Luke 21:11; Revelation 6:8) The Spanish influenza of 1918-19 claimed at least 21 million lives. “The world had never in history been ravaged by a killer that slew so many human beings so quickly,” writes A. A. Hoehling in The Great Epidemic. Today, pestilences rage on. Each year, cancer kills five million people, diarrheal diseases claim the lives of more than three million infants and children, and tuberculosis slays three million. Respiratory infections, mainly pneumonia, annually kill 3.5 million youngsters under five years of age. And a staggering 2.5 billion—half the world’s population—suffer from sicknesses that stem from insufficient or contaminated water and poor sanitation. AIDS looms as a further reminder that man, despite his significant medical accomplishments, is incapable of eradicating pestilences.\n\n “Men will be . . . lovers of money.” (2 Timothy 3:2) In lands around the world, people seem to have an insatiable hunger for greater wealth. “Success” is often measured by the size of one’s paycheck, “accomplishment” by how much one owns. “Materialism will continue to be one of the driving forces in American society . . . and an increasingly important force in other major markets as well,” declared the vice president of an advertising agency. Is this happening where you live?\n\n “Disobedient to parents.” (2 Timothy 3:2) Present-day parents, teachers, and others have firsthand evidence that many children are disrespectful and disobedient. Some of these youngsters are either reacting to or imitating their parents’ misbehavior. Increasing numbers of children are losing faith in—and rebelling against—school, the law, religion, and their parents. “As a trend,” says one veteran schoolteacher, “they seem to have very little respect for
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a war might displacing the food growing population\nspeculative attack on the currency, making it impossible to pay for imported food\nprolonged drought\neconomic sanctions.
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With many of the young men off to war minorties and women picked up much of the slack. Business boomed because the US exported all of its goods to war torn countries. After the war the good economy lasted through the 20's but it all came crashing down with the great depression
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There is no one answer.  The "New Deal" made a big difference, as did World War II.  \n\nWWII was likely the largest factor.  At the end of WWII, The United States, The Soviet Union, and Japan were the only nations left standing.  Those three economies blossomed beyond all expectations (including the Soviet Union until the end of the cold war)
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After the 1st World War, many in the U. S. were wary of becoming entangled in another war.  Senator Henry Cabot Lodge led a group of senators who were afraid the U.S. might get pulled into another war trying to enforce the Leagues wishes..or that the League might try to interfere with the business and wishes of our country.  They were called "isolationists'  and this was called the "isolationist era."  TODAY  the United States is very much involved in other coutries business, and in wars in other countries ...and now many people  again believe that we should back off from that.  Some Democrats say it was the fault of Republicans that we did not join the League.  Yet, it is the Democrats now who are saying we should get out of Iraq and mind our own business.  So, you  see, nothing is new...history repeats itself with different names.   There is a fine balance between isolationism and "assisting" other nations?  Understand?\nThis needs more thought than some of the flippant answers I see were given.  Also, I see one person said something about Israel...Israel did not exist until after the League was disbanded.  And, the United Nations was formed AFTER the League was disbanded.
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Because a lot of world powers(the US, Germany, China, Italy, etc) were fighting in the war, and it wasn't just one country against the other.
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We are not going to have a WWIII anytime soon.  The polarization that affected the world in the 20th century is not present.  Democracies rarely if ever go to war with one another.  Since almost the entire worlds wealth is in 10 countries, all democracies, I do not see a political conflict ever arising.  The only wild card is China. When they do rise to economic and military prominence, there could be a destabilization of Asia.  If they also convert to a social democracy there will be no real threat of a world war.\n\nCulturally there is a war, between Jedo-Christianity and Islam.  The birthrate in European countries is so low that their Islamic immigrants will outnumber the original inhabitants of France, Italy, and Germany in 100 years.  The distinct differences beftween the cultures will have to blur or there will be another holocaust, which side will do it, who knows?  Remember Bosina-Herzogovina??  Orthodox Christians decimating and raping muslims to wipe them out.   If nations are pushed to the brink of extinction, they will use all means available.  Another cultural wildcard, India.\n\nNo one knows what will happen, I just hope that the Israeli-Palestinian confllict is resolved fairly and justly for both sides, that moderate and tolerant religeous leaders of all faiths prevail, instead of the fear and hatred that is growing all over the world.  \n\nI have hope, that with no facist or expansionist communist regime with any money or resources, our world will eventually learn to be at relative peace.
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One reason was a major draught (sometimes called the "dust bowl") which caused produce to cost a lot more and made many farmers poorer becasue they had no crops to sell.\n\nAnother reason was the lack of distribution of the wealth. The rich were very rich, and the poor were very poor.\n\nanother was a lack of federal safeguards for banks. when the stock market crashed, many people took out all their money and the major financial institutions failed.\n\nhere's a quote from one source:\n"The U.S. economy was also reliant upon luxury spending and investment from the rich to stay afloat during the 1920's. The significant problem with this reliance was that luxury spending and investment were based on the wealthy's confidence in the U.S. economy. If conditions were to take a downturn (as they did with the market crashed in fall and winter 1929), this spending and investment would slow to a halt. While savings and investment are important for an economy to stay balanced, at excessive levels they are not good."
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Here is a quote from a letter of a delegate to a United Nations conference on trade and Employment Nove 27,1947.  It sounded reasonable then and is still reasonable today, dont you think?\n\n"Economics , more than any factor, shapes the destiny of nations and the history of human projection...... The path of civilization lies with the development of trade between one country and another.\n\nThe growing human wants with attendant complexities urged nations to seek out contacts with nations near and far to develop trade and commerce on a mutually advantageous basis.\n-------M.A. Ishapani\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nIf you will ignore the complex words, it all boils down to this. our island have plenty of potatoes tbis year.  The island in front of us, I heard that they have plenty of pigs and the thier neighbor has coffee. Let us trade some of the potatoes for pigs and coffee. \nWe have been doing early  commerce like this , and it is called bartering. Soon after that , we traded with currency, debts and other forms of payment.\n\nToday, we have well established laws and models of commercial trading of goods and jobs all over the world.  \n\nWe are in the process of grappling with international trade rules and laws to govern trade via internet.
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the irony was that war was good for the world economically as it spured their economies.  as world war 2 started, they needed workers for the factories to produce bombs and guns.  soon, the unemployment rate went down, and the US especially was starting to profit through the selling of weaponry to other countries before Lend Lease Act.  as more people are working, they get paid, and the economy goes for the better.  another one in a very small role was the New Deal by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  while it didn't stop the great depression, it put the US in the fast track by creating more jobs and putting new laws and restrictions in the economy.
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One thing to keep in mind is that anytime money is spent on war it is usually in the form of debt.  Wars are paid for by borrowing money, or by raising taxes.  Neither one of these is desirable.  Eventually someone has to pay for the war.  Just because we spend the money on war does not necessarily mean that that same money would have gone to the poor or other social programs.\n\nGeneral MacArthur summed it up by saying:  "The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear, keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.”\n\nActually, the US gives more than just financial donations.  It provides military presence.  It provides the ability to trade through free trade agreements.  It provides benchmarks for other countries to follow the lead.\n\nThe US does give the highest dollar amount than any other country in the world.\n\nSee the supporting source for an in depth report on how the US aids other countries relative to the rest of the world.
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Tough question....\nMuch of Europe, particularly in the north, was growing rapidly though industrialization.  This was an era of urbanization and more overland trade, as the railroads allowed for transport across the country, rather than just coastal towns shipping oversea.\nGermany was brought together for the first time as a unified entity, rather than just a collection of disparate principalities, setting the stage for big conflict in the 20th Century.\nIn southern and eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire was in great decline, as was the Austro-Hungarian.  Both were supplanted by the growing influence and wealth of the English and French colonial empires, with resources from abrouad fueling finance and manufacturing at home.
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I found this -- perhaps it'll help.\n\nThe information looks a bit dated, but should provide enough detailed data to answer your question.\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/2006pr/04/ft920/