Editing Historical revisionism (section)

===Guilt for causing World War II===
{{See also|Causes of World War II|Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War}}
The orthodox interpretation blamed Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for causing the war. Revisionist historians of World War II, notably [[Charles A. Beard]], said the United States was partly to blame because it pressed the Japanese too hard in 1940 and 1941 and rejected compromises.<ref>Samuel Flagg Bemis, "First Gun of a Revisionist Historiography for the Second World War", ''Journal of Modern History'', Vol. 19, No. 1 (Mar. 1947), pp. 55–59 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1875652 in JSTOR] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210131658/http://www.jstor.org/stable/1875652 |date=February 10, 2017 }}</ref> Other notable contributions to this discussion include Charles Tansill, ''Back Door To War'' (Chicago, 1952); Frederic Sanborn, ''Design For War'' (New York, 1951); and David Hoggan, ''The Forced War'' (Costa Mesa, 1989). The British historian [[A. J. P. Taylor]] ignited a firestorm when he argued Hitler was an ineffective and inexperienced diplomat and did not deliberately set out to cause a world war.<ref>Martel, Gordon ed. (1999) ''The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered: A.J.P. Taylor and the Historians.'' (2nd ed.)</ref>

[[Patrick Buchanan]], an American [[Paleoconservatism|paleoconservative]] pundit, argued that the Anglo–French guarantee in 1939 encouraged Poland not to seek a compromise over Danzig. He further argued that Britain and France were in no position to come to Poland's aid, and Hitler was offering the Poles an alliance in return. Buchanan argued the guarantee led the Polish government to transform a minor border dispute into a major world conflict, and handed Eastern Europe, including Poland, to Stalin. Buchanan also argued the guarantee ensured the country would be eventually invaded by the Soviet Union, as Stalin knew the British were in no position to declare war on the Soviet Union in 1939, due to their military weakness.<ref>[[Patrick J. Buchanan|Buchanan, Patrick J.]] (2009). [[iarchive:churchillhitlert00patr|''Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World''.]] Three Rivers Press. {{ISBN|978-0307405166}}.{{page needed|date=May 2021}}</ref>