Access to History: War and Peace: International Relations 1890-1945 Fourth Edition
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English
ISBN
9781471838293
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Title Page
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Contents
Dedication
Chapter 1 International relations 1879–1945: an introduction
1 The ideological background
2 The Great Powers 1890–1945
Chapter 2 Growing international tension 1878–90
1 The unification of Germany and its consequences
2 The Balkans and the League of the Three Emperors
3 Bismarck’s web of alliances 1879–83
4 The Anglo-French quarrel over Egypt and its consequences
5 The Bulgarian crisis 1885–7
Chapter 3 The origins of the First World War
1 The ‘New Course’ in German foreign policy and its consequences
2 Nationalism and worldwide imperial rivalries
3 Making of the Triple Entente
4 The second Moroccan crisis 1911 and its consequences
5 The Balkans and the Great Powers 1906–14
6 Outbreak of the First World War 1914
7 The key debate
Chapter 4 The First World War 1914–18
1 The military and strategic background of the war 1914–15
2 1916: The deadlock still unbroken
3 1917: ‘No peace without victory’
4 1918: The final year of the war
5 The armistices of October and November 1918
Chapter 5 Peace settlements 1919–23
1 Problems faced by the peacemakers
2 Aims and principles of the victorious Great Powers
3 Organisation of the Paris Peace Conference
4 Settlement with Germany
5 Settlements with Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria
6 Settlement with Turkey 1919–23
7 Enforcing the Treaty of Versailles 1920–3
8 The key debate
Chapter 6 Reconciliation and disarmament 1924–30: the Locarno era
1 The impact of the Dawes Plan
2 The Locarno Treaties
3 The ‘Locarno spirit’ and Germany’s re-emergence as a Great Power
4 Russia and eastern Europe during the Locarno era
5 Development of the League of Nations
6 Progress towards disarmament
Chapter 7 Democracies on the defensive 1930–6
1 The Great Depression 1929–33
2 Hitler’s rise to power
3 Reaction of the Great Powers to Nazi Germany 1933–5
4 The Abyssinian crisis 1935
5 Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
6 The Spanish Civil War
7 The Rome–Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact
Chapter 8 Countdown to war in Europe 1937–41
1 Hitler’s options
2 Arms race: Britain, France and Germany 1936–9
3 Britain, France and appeasement
4 The Anschluss and the destruction of Czechoslovakia
5 Anglo-French guarantees and attempts to construct a peace front
6 Gaining the support of the USSR
7 Outbreak of the Second World War 1939
8 The spreading conflict: October 1939 to June 1941
9 The key debate
Chapter 9 Countdown to war in Asia 1931–41
1 The Manchurian Crisis 1932
2 The Sino-Japanese War
3 The road to Pearl Harbor 1940–1
Chapter 10 Interpreting international relations 1890–1941
1 Causes of the First World War
2 Peace treaties
3 The new global balance of power
4 The fragile stabilisation 1924–9
5 Road to war in Europe and Asia 1931–41
Study guide
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