Comintern

Christian Leitz’s Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1941: The Road to Global War thoroughly examines Nazi Germany’s interaction with major countries between 1933-1941. Leitz focuses specifically on major countries and regions. These areas include: Italy, France, Britain, Poland, Soviet Union, American hemisphere, Southeast Europe, and East Asia. Leitz does this my dividing the book into seven chapters, each one devoted to a particular area. This allows for an analysis of Nazi Germany’s international…

build up of tensions among countries in the European system and surrounding areas led to the outbreak of World War I. This war, being the bloodiest in history up to that point, caused upwards of 25 million deaths and led to the rise of Nazism, Comintern Cold War along with many other major geopolitical events (Third International). The rising powers of Germany, the US, revolutionary Russia, and the declining supremacies of the United Kingdom, France, and the Ottoman Empire, allowed for an…

for their assistance in the overthrow of the Republican government in Spain, he declared neutrality in the start of WWII. It was clear that he favored the Axis Powers more, and in 1939 before the start of WWII Franco had already joined the Anti-Comintern Pact and secretly signed a treaty of friendly relations with Germany (U.S. Library of Congress. “Foreign Policy under Franco.” Countrystudies.com.). When Germany showed its imperial power in 1940, Franco sided with Germany and adopted a policy…

of Germany’s isolation and more success in foreign policy. There was a non-aggression pact with Poland (1934), a plebiscite in the Saar (1935), Germany and Italy forming the Axis Powers (1936), the reoccupation of the Rhineland (1936), an Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan (1936), the annexation of Austria (1938), much of Czechoslovakia annexed (1938-1939), non-aggression pact with USSR and the success led to demands on Poland which were refused. Germany went to war with Poland on September 1st,…

The political cartoon, “Little Goldilocks Riding Hood,” was drawn for the American public by the US cartoonist's Herb Block in 1939. The message of this cartoon denotes a small grill labeled as Poland and that is confronted by two fairy tale predators. The undertone of the cartoon is that the little girl is vulnerable and weak and is about to be eaten by two predators. Essentially meaning that Poland is in danger. The cartoon also includes the words “Nazi Germany” on the wolf’s pillow who also…

Kyle Yatsonsky Mr. McShaffery U.S History 8 June 2015 Why the Atomic Bomb Should have been Dropped On August 6 and August 9 of 1945, perhaps the most controversial war decision in American history took place. This decision was deciding to drop the atomic bombs in Hiroshima, Japan on the sixth and Nagasaki, Japan on the ninth. Killing thousands of individuals instantaneously with Japan’s army in a weak state, many argue that the bombings were unnecessary. Despite these arguments, the dropping of…

Hitler and Mussolini are known for their involvement in causing the Second World War as the Axis Alliance. But if we look into the alliance of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany we see two leaders who were really not the best of friends. In fact the two leaders had times when they were ready to go to war with one another. Their alliance was full of intentional secrets like Italy’s invasion of Albania which was a response to Germany’s unannounced takeover of Prague. Nevertheless, the two nations…