the ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

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Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables List of maps 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 Bibliography Index