the ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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Contents
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Preface
Chronology
Who’s who
Part I Background
	1 Explaining the Second World War
Part II Analysis
	2 The international crisis
	3 Economic and imperial rivalry
	4 Armaments and domestic politics
	5 War over Poland
	6 From European to world war
Part III Assessment
	7 Hitler’s war?
Part IV Documents
	1 The Treaty of Versailles and Germany
	2 The Covenant of the League
	3 The search for a settlement
	4 American ‘appeasement’
	5 Stalin anticipates war
	6 The ‘Hossbach memorandum’
	7 Preparation for war before Munich
	8 The Munich Conference
	9 The Munich Agreement
	10 Imperialism and war
	11 Economic pressure on Japan
	12 Mussolini’s vision of empire
	13 Hitler’s ‘Second Book’: Lebensraum and the Jews
	14 Economic appeasement
	15 The Four-Year Plan
	16 Economic dangers for Britain
	17 The crisis in France
	18 ‘Peace for our time’
	19 The change of mood in the west
	20 Hitler plans to crush Poland
	21 Chamberlain guarantees Poland
	22 The Franco-British ‘war plan’, 1939
	23 British intelligence on Germany
	24 Stalin warns the west after Munich
	25 The Franco-British failure in Moscow
	26 The Soviet reaction to German advances, 1939
	27 The German-Soviet Pact
	28 Britain’s probable attitude
	29 Hitler gambles on western weakness
	30 Bonnet’s doubts about war
	31 Poland in the middle
	32 The last days of peace
	33 Chamberlain’s ‘awful Sunday’
	34 Berlin proposes peace
	35 A British demand for peace
	36 The Three-Power Pact
	37 ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ fireside chat
	38 The Barbarossa Directive
	39 The German attack on Russia
	40 Russia raises the price for co-operation
	41 Japan decides on war
	42 Creating the new world order
Glossary
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Index