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the first world war to illustrate that point.
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The Americans and the English, in particular,
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came to feel that Germany was wrongly blamed and
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therefore unjustly treated by the Versailles Treaty.
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Americans used this
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as the main justification for rejecting that treaty
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and then retreating into isolation from foreign affairs.
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The English, of course, couldn't go that far,
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but their belief that Germany was falsely accused
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made it easy to permit and to justify
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Hitler's violations of the treaty.
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Feelings of guilt helped support a policy of disarmament,