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Barbara Tuchman, Tony Judt and others have argued that WWII happened because the Germans didn't straight-up lose in WWI. they stalemated. Their capacity to make war remained and as there were no foreign troops on German soil, the Germans did not lose their appetite for conquest. By that argument, the US should have gotten involved much earlier - the Zimmerman telegram probably wouldn't have pushed the US into war if the Lusitania hadn't happened first, for example. I know enough about European history to know that I can't make an intelligent statement either way.