Topic 3: Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?
You should be familiar with all of the topics below:
- Long term consequences of the peace treaties of 1919-23.
- Inconsistencies in the Versailles Settlement.
- Consequences of the failures of the League in the 1930s (Manchuria, Abyssinia,
World Disarmament Conference)
- Hitler’s foreign policy aims
- Hitler’s actions 1933-1935 (from leaving the League to the Anglo-German Naval
Agreement)
- Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
- German involvement in The Spanish Civil War 1936-9.
- The Anti-Comintern Pact
- The Anschluss
- The Sudetenland
- The Munich Agreement (including arguments for and against it)
- The invasion of Czechoslovakia
- The British-French guarantee to Poland
- Assessment of appeasement – arguments for and against
- The significance of the Nazi Soviet Pact
- Why did war break out in 1939? (Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, Hitler’s
reaction to guarantees to Poland by GB and France)
You should be familiar with all of the topics below:
- Long term consequences of the peace treaties of 1919-23.
- Inconsistencies in the Versailles Settlement.
- Consequences of the failures of the League in the 1930s (Manchuria, Abyssinia,
World Disarmament Conference)
- Hitler’s foreign policy aims
- Hitler’s actions 1933-1935 (from leaving the League to the Anglo-German Naval
Agreement)
- Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
- German involvement in The Spanish Civil War 1936-9.
- The Anti-Comintern Pact
- The Anschluss
- The Sudetenland
- The Munich Agreement (including arguments for and against it)
- The invasion of Czechoslovakia
- The British-French guarantee to Poland
- Assessment of appeasement – arguments for and against
- The significance of the Nazi Soviet Pact
- Why did war break out in 1939? (Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, Hitler’s
reaction to guarantees to Poland by GB and France)
