HISTORY 3570 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Phoney War, Munich Agreement, Cultural Diversity
28 Jan 2016
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The winter war, the dissection of poland, the scandinavian. Events (winter warm dissection of poland, scandinavian campaign, the sitzkrieg) The causes of world war ii: geographic/ underlying. Europe"s geographic fragmentation: cultural diversity (language), ethnic tensions and military competence. Japan"s isolation and lack of natural resources: cultural isolation and need for expansion. North america"s isolation and abundance of resources: American"s reluctance to become involved: structural factors: Industrial might combined with pre-modern concepts of nation: Almost like it"s a 30 years was it"s not, but it may as well be. The power vacuum in central europe: austria hungry is gone, power soviet union in east, rearming countries in the west. French and british guarantee of polish independence. Post chamberlain realizing he had been an idiot with. Obligated to go to war if anyone invaded poland: events: Stalin"s failure to involve france and britain in spain (36-38) Rule of the master race: soviet russia: ( what does stalin want? )
