Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• Introduction
• Themes and exam tips
• Case study 1: Japanese expansion in East Asia, 1931–41
  • Chapter 1: Causes of expansion, 1868–1930
    • 1.1: The impact of Japanese nationalism and militarism on foreign policy
      • Commodore Perry and the ‘black ships’
      • The Meiji Restoration – a period of social and political change
      • First stages of imperialism
      • The Taisho era: World War I and its immediate aftermath
    • 1.2: Japanese domestic issues and their impact on foreign relations
      • Political developments – from Taisho democracy to militarism
      • Social and cultural change in the 1920s
      • Economic challenges – industry and agriculture
      • The growth of ultra-nationalism and its threat to democracy
      • The Showa era
    • 1.3: Political instability in China
      • China and Japan, 1911–22
      • The Guomindang and the Northern Expedition
    • A review of Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2: Japanese expansion and foreign policy, 1931–38
    • 2.1: The Japanese occupation of Manchuria and northern China, 1931
      • The Manchurian Incident
      • The creation of Manchukuo
    • 2.2: The response in Japan and China to the Manchurian Incident
      • Japan – a political response
      • Japan – a popular response
      • China’s response to the Manchurian Incident
      • The Shanghai Incident
    • 2.3: The international response to the Manchurian Incident
      • The League of Nations and the Lytton Commission
      • Soviet Union’s response to events in the East
      • A move to global war?
      • The Second United Front
      • Political tensions within Japan
      • The Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936
    • 2.4: The Sino-Japanese War, 1937–41
      • The Marco Polo Bridge Incident, 1937
      • The Battle for Shanghai, August–October 1937
      • The fall of Nanjing, December 1937
    • A review of Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3: The road to war, 1937–41
    • 3.1: The impact of the Sino-Japanese War
      • A New Order in East Asia
    • 3.2: Japan’s relations with Europe, 1938–39
      • Japan and the Axis powers
      • The outbreak of war in Europe and its impact on Japan
    • 3.3: Japan’s relations with the United States and Britain
      • The Tianjin (Tientsin) Incident
    • 3.4: The signing of the Tripartite Pact
      • The border conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union
    • 3.5: An overview of US foreign policy after 1936
      • The Quarantine Speech
      • The end of American isolationism
    • 3.6: Final stages of the move to global war
      • Operation Barbarossa, June 1941
      • The emergence of the ABCD Bloc
      • Indochina and the US embargo on oil, 1941
      • The failure of diplomacy
      • The descent into war
    • 3.7: Historiography – different interpretations of the outbreak of war
    • A review of Chapter 3
• Case study 2: German and Italian expansion, 1933–40
  • Chapter 4: Italian expansion and its consequences
    • 4.1: Causes of expansion
      • Impact of Mussolini’s Fascism on Italy’s foreign policy
      • Impact of domestic economic issues on Italy’s foreign policy up to 1929
    • 4.2: Italian expansion and international response
      • Italian foreign policy between 1922 and 1933
      • Italian foreign policy in the 1930s
      • The rise of Hitler in Germany
      • Italian expansion in Abyssinia, 1935–36
      • Changing diplomatic alliances
      • The invasion of Albania, 1939
    • A review of Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5: German expansion and its consequences
    • 5.1: Causes of German expansion, 1933–37
      • Historical background
      • Germany’s grievances related to the Treaty of Versailles
      • The Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler
      • Impact of Nazism on Germany’s foreign policy
      • What did Nazism propose in foreign policy?
      • What were Hitler’s aims?
      • How did Hitler plan to achieve these aims?
      • Impact of domestic issues on Germany’s foreign policy
    • 5.2: German challenges and international response, 1933–37
      • The League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference
      • International response and early changing diplomatic alliances
      • German rearmament and international response
      • Anglo-German Naval Agreement
      • The remilitarization of the Rhineland
      • Changing diplomatic alignments in Europe – Mussolini and Hitler
      • 1937 – A year of awareness?
    • A review of Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6: International responses to Italy and Germany, 1938–40
    • 6.1: Moving closer to war
      • The Anschluss
      • The Sudeten crisis
      • The May crisis
      • The Munich Conference
      • The Polish crisis and the outbreak of war
      • German–Italian relations and the outbreak of war
      • The Nazi-Soviet Pact
    • 6.2: International response between September 1939 and May 1940
      • The response of the United States
      • War in Europe, September 1939 to May 1940
      • The Fall of France
      • Italy’s entry into the war
      • The Battle of Britain
    • 6.3: Historiography – different interpretations of the outbreak of war
    • A review of Chapter 6
  • Chaper 7: Theory of Knowledge
• Further Reading
  • Case Study 1
  • Case Study 2
• Glossary
• Index
• Back Cover

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