The origins of the First and Second World Wars

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Introduction = 1
• 1 The origins of the First World War, 1871-1914 = 3
• The rise of Germany = 3
• The impact of imperialism = 6
• Kaiser Wilhelm, German world policy and German aims = 8
• The drift towards alliances = 10
• The Balkan Crisis, 1912-14 = 13
• 1914: the July Crisis and decisions for war = 15
• Document case study = 79
• 2 The historians and the origins of the First World War = 24
• War guilt: the changing debate = 24
• Germany and the origins of war: Fritz Fischer and his critics = 25
• The nature of the international system: alliances and diplomacy = 33
• War by timetable? Militarism, armaments and war plans = 33
• Nationalism = 35
• An imperialist war? Marxist and economic explanations = 36
• 3 The origins of the Second World War: 1 War and the fragile peace, 1914-33 = 43
• The ordeal of war, 1914-18 = 43
• The Paris Peace Settlement and its consequences = 46
• The League of Nations and the limits of international co-operation, 1919-33 = 54
• The 'German problem' during the 1920s = 55
• The Great Depression and its consequences = 61
• Document case study = 65
• 4 The origins of the Second World War: 2 From peace to global war, 1933-41 = 69
• The impact of Hitler = 69
• The collapse of the League of Nations, 1935-37 = 71
• Neville Chamberlain, appeasement and the road to Munich, 1937-38 = 73
• The road to global war, 1938-41 = 78
• Document case study = 83
• 5 The historians and the origins of the Second World War = 90
• The changing debate = 90
• The Hitler factor = 91
• The role of Neville Chamberlain and appeasement = 94
• French foreign policy and the coming of war = 96
• Mussolini's role in the origins of the Second World War = 97
• The Soviet Union and the origins of the Second World War = 99
• The Paris Peace Settlement and its consequences = 102
• Economic interpretations = 103
• The role of ideology = 105
• The debate over the origins of the Asian-Pacific conflict = 107
• Select bibliography = 116
• Chronology = 118
• Index = 122