All of the Following Explains Why Hitler's Gamble in Remilitarizing

question 49

Multiple Choice

All of the following explains why Hitler's gamble in remilitarizing the Rhineland worked EXCEPT

• A) Britain found it to be reasonable.
• B) Though alarmed, France did not act because it was not willing to act by itself.
• C) France overestimated the size of the German force.
• D) French public opinion had no enthusiasm for a clash with Germany.
• E) Germany had already completed its rearmament and could repulse any attack by opponents.
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Definitions:

Determined Actions

Refers to actions whose outcomes are influenced or dictated by prior conditions or laws, suggesting a lack of free will.

Compatibilism

The thesis that both determinism (in some interpretations) and free action can be true. Determinism does not rule out free action, and the possibility of free action does not require that determinism be false. They are compatible positions.

Kant

Immanuel Kant was an 18th-century German philosopher whose work in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics had a profound influence on modern Western philosophy, especially through his doctrine of transcendental idealism.

Practical Reason

The application of our rationality to practical problems—particularly moral problems—the solution to which consists in action (as opposed to a statement or a theory).