Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

WW2 Context, 211486-2121x1414-Please-give-my-dad-a-job, 56ce2de3-2ae5-4df9…

- - - - He clearly says that the Appeasement between England and Germany was a logical and realistic solution, however WWII broke not beacuse this treatment but because of Chamberlain's blunders (England first minister at the time).
      - And he also portrayed Hitler as a man of improvisation that with his ability to profit from the mistakes of his enemies, succesfully used his foreign policy.
  - - - Hitler's foreign policy was not very unique (Detlev Peukert, A.J.P. Taylor, Lewis Namier, Fritz Fischer, Geoffrey Eley, Gordon Craig)
      - Hitler's foreign policy was unique (Friedrich Meinecke, Gerhard Ritter, Ralf Dahrendorf)
- - - - As early as 1925, through the publication of Mein Kampf, Hitler had outlined an intention to unite Germans across Europe in a reconstituted territory that included Austria, before securing vast tracts of land beyond this new Reich that would ensure self-sufficiency.
      - In May 1939 he explicitly referred to the oncoming war as being bound up with the pursuit of the ‘Lebensraum’ to the east, with this referring to the whole of Central Europe and Russia up to the Volga.
  - - - This left Britain and France, already terrified by the prospect of another war, without a key ally in world diplomacy during the tense interwar period.
    - - The Luftwaffe was founded, Naval forces were expanded and conscription was introduced.