文档介绍：the origins of the second world war:
an international perspective
TheO rigins of the Second
World War: An International
Perspective
E teddi by Frank McDonough
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First published 2011
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Contents
L stntributorsi of Co viii
Introduction 1
Frank McDonough
â 1 The Versailles Settlement: TheS tart of the Road to the Second
World War? 15
Alan Sharp
â 2 The League of Nations: An Idea before its Time? 34
Ruth Henig
â 3 an Ideological Genealogy of Imperial Era Japanese Militarism 50
. Sheftall
â 4 italian Foreign Policy and the Road to War 1918–39: Ambitions and
Delusions of the Least of the Great Powers 66
. Bosworth
â 5 The Failure of Détente? German–French Relations between
Stresemann and Hitler, 1929–32 82
Conan Fischer
â 6 hitler, German Foreign Policy and the Road to War: A German
Perspective 101
Lars Lüdicke
â 7 germany’s Twisted Road to War, 1919–39 110
Jürgen Förster
â 8 The Prussian Tradition, the Myth of the Blitzkrieg and the Illusion
of German Military Dominance, 1939–41 126
Robert M. Citino
â 9 guilty Men? Three British Foreign Secretaries of the 1930s 144
David Dutton
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