Was World War II inevitable?

No event
like a war in human history is literally inevitable.  There are all sorts of things that could
happen to prevent them.  That said,could probably have been prevented somewhat easily.  It was
less inevitable than some wars have been.

The case for inevitability rests
on the attitudes of Germany and Japan.  These countries were highly dissatisfied with the status
quo of, say, 1930.  Because they...