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31 Cards in this Set
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Cause of WWI: The Alliance System. AJP Taylor |
Alliances were so fragile that they cannot be seen as a major cause of war |
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Cause of WWI: The Alliance System. Schmit
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The alliances which had originally served as the cause of peace when put to the final test operated to convert a local quarrel into a general war |
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Cause of WWI: The Balkans. Martel
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The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was the final straw in the struggle for mastery in the Balkans |
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Cause of WWI: Militarism. AJP Taylor
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WWI was almost entirely caused by the rival plans for mobilisation by European powers |
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Cause of WWI: Imperialism. Fischer |
Germany deliberately engineered the war in pursuit of expansionist aims
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The League of Nations. J.A.S. Grenville
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The strength of the League depended on its members and not the rules and procedures laid down; if these had been applied and observed they most likely would have preserved peace |
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The League of Nations. Ruth Henig
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It is hardly surprising that the League should have failed to make a significant polictical impact. Without the United States and Russia, the League was not a truly world-wide organisation. |
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The League of Nations. A.J.P.Taylor
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There was a deep, underlying divergence between England and France as to the nature of the League
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The League of Nations. David Thomas
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In its supreme purpose of keeping peace, the League failed. In both structure and membership, as well as the circumstances of its birth, it was ill-adapted to this purpose |
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The League of Nations. David Thomas
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The failure of the United States to become a member of the League, combined with the exclusion from it of Germany and Russia, was decisive in making the League a mere buttress of the existing settlement |
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Causes of WWII: Treaty of Versailles Failed. James Joll
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Europe was divided at the peace conference into those who wanted the peace revised [Germany, Italy, Japan, and Hungary] and those who wanted it upheld [France, Poland, Czechoslovakia], and those who were not that interested [USA and UK] |
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Causes of WWII: Treaty of Versailles Failed. A..P.Taylor
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WWII was a war over the settlement of Versailles; a war that had been implicity when the First World War ended because the peace makers had not solved the German problem
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Causes of WWII: Treaty of Versailles Defended. Ruth Henig
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a credible achievement that eventually failed because of the reluctance of the victors to enforce it
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Causes of WWII: Hitler. Lord Dacre
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WWII was part of a master plan laid out in Mein Kampf.
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Causes of WWII: Hitler. Klaus Hildebrad
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Idea of a stage by stage (Stufenplan) plan
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Causes of WWII: Hitler. Karl Dietrich Bracher
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Idea of Hitler as an all powerful dictator as a myth, he had to respond spontaneously
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Causes of WWII: Hitler. Martin Broszat
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WWII occurred because of a desire to keep up the momentum of the Nazi regime |
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Causes of WWII: German Policy (Nazis a freak of history). Meinecke
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Hitler and his Nazi Party had no deep roots in German History
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Causes of WWII: German Policy (Nazis a freak of history). Ritter
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Anti Semitism and social Darwinism were imported from outside Germany |
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Causes of WWII: German Policy (was traditional). A.J.P. Taylor
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It was no more of a mistake for the German people to end up with Hitler than it is an accident when a river flows into the sea |
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Causes of WWII: German Policy (was Traditional). Namier
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German desire to dominate Europe was the single major factor in both world wars
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Causes of WWII: Appeasement (Against Chamberlain). Wheeler Bennett |
Chamberlain failed to appreciate that war is sometimes preferable to peace at any price
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Causes of WWII: Appeasement (Against Chamberlain). Middlemass
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Chamberlain was not a coward but practiced diplomacy of illusion (that Hitler could be reasoned with) |
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Causes of WWII: Appeasement (Against Chamberlain). The guilty men "Cato"
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Chamberlain simply gve in to Hitler in a cowardly manner and therefore allowed him to get too far
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Causes of WWII: Appeasement (For Chamberlain). David Dilks
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Appeasement hoped for the best but prepared for the worst
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Causes of WWII: Appeasement (For Chamberlain). 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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Extract from Mein Kampf: Germany obtaining Land |
If land was desired in Europe, it could be obtained by and large only at the expense of Russia
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Extract from Mein Kampf: Germany being a world power |
Germany will either be a world power or there will be no Germany
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Extract from Mein Kampf: Darwinism |
Every healthy, vigorous people sees nothing sinful in territorial acquisition, but something quite in keeping with nature.
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Extract from The Four Year Plan, 1936: Bolshevism
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Bolshevism is the elimination of those strata of mankind which have hitherto provided the leadership and their replacement by worldwide Jewry
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Extract from Hossbach Memorandum: Germany's time table
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It was his unalterable resolve to solve Germany's problem of space at the latest by 1943-45.
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