Originally Posted by
-:Undertaker:-
I will reply to both as both assume that the aggressor is not at fault for causing world war.
The United States and Canada became involved in World War II because of the attacks on pearl harbour and the fact that Canada had a moral obligation as part of Empire to come to the aid of the United Kingdom and fellow colonies/dominions and states in Asia who were also under attack by the Empire of Japan and the Third Reich. The British Empire and its entanglements aside, Canada as a western power had a moral obligation to assist its allies in the fight against the Third Reich and Axis Powers.
It was not the British Empire who dragged anybody into war, it was the aggressive policy of the Empire of Japan and the Third Reich to invade and conquer lands which were in development/had already developed. I am glad Canada filled its moral obligation and so did the rest of the Empire. If Korea does spark a World War III or another conflict, the United States will not of have dragged anybody into a war - it will be the fault (depending on the situation) of the North Korean regime and the communist Chinese regime.
If anything the policy of appeasement by the British Empire intially put both the Empire and the world in general at more risk than at any other point through the war in a vain attempt to ignore Hitlers Germany and Japans imperial ambitions - the Czechs being one of the early casualties of appeasement. We often talk about the domino effect of communism, but the policy of appeasement surely had the potential of creating a domino effect of conversion to Nazism starting with the Czechs and possibly ending with a country of the likes of Canada whom thought it was safe across the Atlantic just as the United States first thought.