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17 Cards in this Set
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Sydney Bradshaw Fay
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Larger forces in Europe (Nationalism, Imperialism) led to WW1
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A. J. P. Taylor
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German ambitions and the Alliance System led to WW1
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Fritz Fischer
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German Ambitions and MIlitarism led to WW1
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Samuel Williamson
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German and Austro-Hungarian Ambitions
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Ruth Henig
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The League was always going to fail due to the notable absences
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James Joll and A. J. P. Taylor
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The failure of the Treaty of Versailles caused WW2
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Wheeler-Bennett
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Blamed Appeasement for start of WW2 – “Chamberlain failed to appreciate that war is sometimes preferable to peace at any price”
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A. J. P. Taylor
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Appeasement was the correct policy, Chamberlain's only mistake was to abandon it
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Litvinov
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“Stalin was like God for us”
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Nove
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“Demonstrates the huge strain of the 5 year plans, how far Russia was behind and how far it was from Modernisation”
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Kershaw
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Hitler’s personality cult made people idolise and adore him
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Alan Bullock
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Hitler was an opportunist
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Hugh Trevor-Roper and Alan Bullock
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Hitler was a strong dictator
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Michael Lynch
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The GMD's power was always more apparent than real
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Yan Yen
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"as a result of the cultural revolution, the cultural trademark of my generation is that we have no culture"
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John King Fairbank
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Mao's reappearance in 1966 was important, as it surprised and impressed people
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Michael Lynch
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"what was ironic was that it was comitted in the name of a philosophy that claimed to have found the scientific means to end all human exploitation and suffering"
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