The origins of the Second World War

Titel: The origins of the Second World War : an international perspective / ed. by Frank McDonough
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Veröffentlicht: London : Continuum, 2011
Umfang: XII, 535 Seiten
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 144116443X ; 9781441164438 ; 9781441185938
  • Introduction
  • 1
  • The Versailles Settlement: The Start of the Road to the Second World War?
  • 2
  • The League of Nations: An Idea Before its Time?
  • 3
  • An Ideological Genealogy of Imperial Era Japanese Militarism
  • 4
  • Italian Foreign Policy and the Road to War 1918-39: Ambitions and Delusions of the Least of the Great Powers
  • 5
  • The Failure of Detente? German Foreign Policy from Locarno to German Rearmament
  • 6
  • Hitler, German Foreign Policy and the Road to War: A German Perspective
  • 7
  • Germany's Twisted Road to War 1918-39
  • 8
  • The Prussian Tradition, the Myth of the Blitzkrieg and the Illusion of German Military Dominance 1939-41
  • 9
  • Guilty Men? Three British Foreign Secretaries in the 1930s
  • 10
  • Neville Chamberlain and the Consequences of the Churchillian Hegemony
  • 11
  • When Instinct Clouds Judgement: Neville Chamberlain and the Pursuit of Appeasement with Nazi Germany 1937-39
  • 12
  • The Missing Dimension? The Role of British Intelligence in British Policy Making
  • 13
  • Appeasement Reconsidered: Reflections on the Road to War
  • 14
  • A Very British Channel: British and French Appeasement
  • 15
  • Politics, Strategy and Economics: A Comparative Analysis of British and French 'Appeasement'
  • 16
  • Neutrality de jour: Switzerland and the Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935-36
  • 17
  • The Role of the Neutral European Powers -Karsh
  • 18
  • The International Implications of the Spanish Civil War
  • 19
  • The Middle East and the Coming of War
  • 20
  • The 'Jewish Question' and its Impact on International Affairs 1914-39
  • 21
  • The Sudeten Crisis of 1938: Benes and Munich
  • 22
  • Poland and the Origins of the Second World War
  • 23
  • Poland, the 'Danzig Question' and the Outbreak of the Second World War
  • 24
  • Stalin and the Outbreak of the Second World War -Roberts
  • 25
  • American Isolationism and the Coming of War
  • 26
  • The Pivotal Role of the USA in the International Relations of the Inter-War Period
  • 27
  • Japanese Foreign Policy and the Outbreak of the Asia-Pacific War: The Search for a Modus Vivendi in US-Japan Relations after July 1941
  • 28
  • A Re-evaluation of the Role of Economic Factors in the Origins of the Second World War
  • 29
  • Historians at War