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- - - - War on only one front
      - Formal alliance with Poland
        
        Threatens Russia further
      - Let russia build up more strength
    - - CZE would have fought for Britain
      - B+F too desperate to avoid war
        
        Hitler never satisfied
    - - Lebensraum
      - Saar, Rhineland, CZE
        
        Fast, good timing
    - - No governing power in Europe
      - Had it done what it set out to do WWII might of been prevented
      - tried to uphold treaties
        
        Made Hitler want to break them more (Longer german suffering)
    - - Chain reaction
      - had to protect themselves
      - Started with germany disobeying ToV
    - - Britain took sympathy on Germany
        
        Led to appeasement
        
        Anchluss
      - People assumed G would stop when ToV put right
        
        Conscription
  - - - Avoided War
        
        Britain needed to rearm and convince empire
      - British armed forces badly equipped comapred to Germans
      - Public in favour
      - Too harsh, Germany cant defend herself
        
        from communism
    - - Encouraged Hitler to be agressive
      - too much faith in hitler
      - Can't give away country to keep peace
      - Too late
        
        Britain would have had support of rest of CZE
        
        too late after rhineland
      - Alarmed USSR
        
        Nazi-Soviet Pact
  - - - Entirely legal
      - Hitler boost
      - Rich coal mining
    - - Used France-Soviet agreement to argue G under threat
      - LoN distracted by Abyssinia
      - F wouldn't act without B
      - B thought 'in its own backyard'
    - - Disobeys ToV = good publicity
      - Stronger Germany
        
        Weapons, gold and iron ore
      - Chamberlain thought it should be allowed
    - - Skoda
      - took away CZE defences
      - Taking advantage of appeasment
    - - end of appeasement
    - - Trigger WWII
      - Blitzkreig success
- - - - USA
        
        Containment sucessful
        
        Kennedy proves himself to public
        
        stayed calm chose best option
      - USSR
        
        Cuba still a commnist state close to America
        
        Still arming Cuba
        
        See's that Kennedy is extremely against war
      - Both
        
        Both hailed as peace makers
        
        both sides ready to take steps to prevent nuclear war
    - - Yes
        
        If kennedy had chosen wrong option
        
        If Soviets had completely diregarded Blockade
      - No
        
        Clear neither sides wanted nuclear war
        
        Khrushchev potentially 'Defending'
  - - - Public extremely against draft for soldiers in stalemate war
      - ultimately vote for anti-vietnam war candidate
      - put pressure on Government
    - - Walter Cronkite informs public
      - Shift in tone of war back home
        
        people no longer think victory around corner
        
        Is war worth it for these towns
    - - Shows crumbling of US troops
      - portrays US as terrorists
        
        not good for global image of capitalism
      - Cover up using Calley
    - - guerilla
        
        Unkown landscape
        
        VC disguise as locals
        
        Wear down morale on already low morale soldiers
        
        more determined and persistant than US troops
      - Can't just throw money and troops at it
      - killed lots of innocent civilians and destoyed landscape
        
        some SV public support VC
  - - - Cuba
        
        Better
        
        not as close to war
        
        Worse
        
        More death
        
        went on for longer and ended in stalemate
        
        agreements made in CMC
      - Vietnam
        
        Better
        
        Policy of containment successful
        
        less death and destruction
        
        didn't lose faith of public
        
        Worse
        
        No nuclear threat in Vietnam
    - - UN
        
        Yes
        
        They did prevent attack and capture of south
        
        No
        
        They didnt create unified country with democratic system
      - US
        
        Yes
        
        Showed world how far they would go to protect free countries
        
        demonstrated military strength
        
        No
        
        Split government
        
        Accused of being expansionist
        
        Threatened nuclear bomb
- - - - Wilson
        
        War to end all wars
        
        LoN
        
        14 points
      - Clemanceau
        
        cripple and split up germany
        
        Lose all colonies
      - Llyod-George
        
        Lose colonies and navies (protect BE)
        
        Reasonable reperations + no 14 points
        
        Prevent german revenge + trading partner
    - - Clemanceau
        
        too lenient
        
        French public not happy
      - Llyod George
        
        Didn't want France to be too powerful
        
        Alsace-Lorraine, Saarkand
        
        Didnt want acess to sea for all
      - Wilson
        
        Too harsh, US didnt ratify
        
        Had to agree to Rhineland and Saar
        
        US didn't suffer as much as France
  - - - Land, people colonies
        
        Blow to pride and economy
      - Reperations
        
        Threatened to destroy Germany's already tattered economy
      - Germany not represented and forced onto them
        
        Clemanceau bad chairman
      - Germany never actually invaded
        
        People upset germany treated like losers
    - - Less harsh than Brest-Litovsk
      - economic problems there own fault
      - Britain and France suffered huge losses
        
        France lost huge amount of countryside
- - - - Marshall plan
        
        Stalin threatened
        
        Attempt to make friends in Europe)
        
        Created Business for US
      - Truman doctrine
      - Iron Curtain
        
        encouraged by Truman
        
        Makes commuism look bad
    - - Breaks Yalta
        
        Didn't allow free elections (Poland)
      - Goes against Containment
    - - Stalin Threatened
        
        Combination of Zones
        
        New Currency
        
        Marshall aid in W berlin
      - Opportunity for US to show off weath and determination
      - Could have easily resuted in war
        
        Use of tanks or shooting down planes
  - - - Satellite states stretching from North to South
      - No uncessful coups
      - COMINFORM
      - Replace independant thinker with stalinites
    - - Yugoslavia
      - Truman increasingly angry
        
        Led to Truman doctrine and marshall aid
- - - - B+F
        
        F wouldn't act without B
        
        Lacked energy to solve issues
        
        Priorities
        
        B will go round to protect BE
        
        F goes round to strengthen position on G
      - Absence of USA
        
        Americans disliked treaty
        
        Too eurocentric
        
        Didn't want to fight for BE
        
        US key trading partner for Asian countries
        
        Left hole of reasources
        
        Army
        
        threat
      - Disputes
        
        Vilna
        
        League didn't respond
        
        Poland future ally against Russia
        
        first example of LoN having other priorities than keeping peace
        
        Corfu
        
        effort to keep peace
        
        Ambassadors still go round rest of LoN
        
        Avoid war at all costs
        
        Bulgaria
        
        Shows leagues double standards
    - - GD
        
        people voted for Nazis
        
        Encouraged expansion
        
        Manchuria, abyssinia
        
        Damaged world trade
        
        = relations
        
        Sanctions now impossible
      - Abyssinia
        
        Hoare-Laval
        
        B + F want to get rid of sanctions
        
        Stresa pact
        
        keep italy on side
        
        Rhineland
        
        Suez not closed
        
        Collective security in the bin
        
        Close to Europe
      - Manchuria
        
        Slow response
        
        LoN powerless to stop agressive FP
        
        Japan could just leave
        
        emphasises leagues lack of force
        
        No sanctions without US
        
        Members worried about taking action leading to war
        
        problem of unanimous
        
        Observed by H + M
    - - Upper Silesia
      - Aaland Islands
      - Locarno
        
        France relaxes
        
        Germany joins LoN = peace
        
        BUT just a peice of paper
      - Kellog-Briand
        
        same as Locarno
        
        what happens if country disobeys?
        
        politicians making voters happy