The Origins of the Second World War 1933-1941

by Henig; Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780415332620
• ISBN10: 0415332621
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Origins of the Second World Waranalyzes the reasons for the outbreak of the Second World War, one of the most controversial historical topics. Ruth Henig considers: * the long-term factors that led to war * the effect of British appeasement policies * the significance of American isolation * the ambitions of Italy, Japan and Russia. This second edition has been updated and expanded throughout to take into consideration the most up to date historical research.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	x
Timeline of key events	xi
Map 1 Hitler's foreign policy: the struggle against Versailles. German territorial losses by the treaty	xv
Map 2 Central and Western Pacific, 1921	xvi
Map 3 The Italian invasion of Abyssinia, 1935	xvii
Map 4 The execution of Hitler's plans: Germany in Europe, 1942	xviii
Introduction	1	(4)
1 Long-term causes	5	(12)
2 The years 1933-41	17	(48)
Nazi ideology	17	(3)
The consolidation of the Nazi regime	20	(3)
Early diplomacy and the challenge of German rearmament, 1933-5	23	(10)
The challenge of Japanese and Italian territorial expansion	33	(6)
The remilitarization of the Rhineland and the Spanish civil war	39	(10)
The Anschluss with Austria and the Czechoslovak crisis, 1938	49	(10)
From European war to world war: Europe and the Far East, 1939-41	59	(6)
3 The historical debate	65	(40)
4 Guide to further reading	105	(6)
Index	111