Название: Countdown to Catastrophe Автор: Michelle Bisson (Publisher) Издательство: Marshall Cavendish Серия: World War II (Book 1) ISBN: 0761449442 Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Язык: английский Формат: True PDF Размер: 26.0 MB
Covers the aftermath of World War I and events in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the U.S. from 1919 to 1939 which lead to the outbreak of World War II.
World War I, in the eyes of Britain, France, and the United States, was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Unfortunately, this prediction did not come true. The 1914 to 1918 war was originally called the “Great War.” This was because no one could imagine a worse war happening again. It was also the war that was fought “to make the world safe for democracy.”
The hopes of 1918 were dashed by 1939. In looking back at this time period, it becomes clear that World War II was not so much a new war as a second act of the Great War. But unlike World War I, World War II was truly a world war. The battlefi elds of World War. I were mostly in Europe. But World War II battlefi elds included not only Europe but also East, Southeast and South Asia, the Pacific, North Africa, and the Near East.
Contents:
CHAPTER 1 Legacies of World War I. . . . . . . . . . .4 CHAPTER 2 Europe in the 1920s. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 CHAPTER 3 The United States Between the Wars . . . . . . . . . 36 CHAPTER 4 Building Nazi Germany . . . . . . . . 52 CHAPTER 5 Asia Between the Wars . . . . . . . . .68 CHAPTER 6 Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America Between the Wars . . . . . . . 82 CHAPTER 7 Europe in the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . .96 CHAPTER 8 Europe in Crisis, 1938 to 1939 . . . . . . .110 Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . 123 Further Reading . . . . . . . . 125 Index . . . . . . . . 126
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