Focus Points

• What were the long-term consequences of the peace treaties of 1919–23?

• What were the consequences of the failures of the League in the 1930s?

• How far was Hitler’s foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in 1939?

• Was the policy of appeasement justified?

• How important was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?

• Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany in September 1939?

Specified Content
• The collapse of international order in the 1930s
• The increasing militarism of Germany, Italy and Japan
• Hitler’s foreign policy to 1939:

o the ---the
Saar

o remilitarisation ---remilitarisation
of the Rhineland

o involvement ---involvement
in the Spanish Civil War

o Anschluss ---Anschluss
with Austria

o appeasement o crises ---appeasement
---crises
over Czechoslovakia and Poland

o the ----the
outbreak of war.


Appeasement:




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