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An unstable peace
The settlement of 1919 promised a world kept peaceful by treaties and the League of Nations. This topic follows how Japan, Italy and Germany broke that order step by step in the 1930s, and how separate wars in Asia and Europe merged into one global war by December 1941.
In this topic
- Why the peace unravelled
- Japan's war in China
- Italy and Germany test the League
- Worked example: the Munich bargain
- Persecution and closed doors
- The Nazi-Soviet Pact and Poland
- Blitzkrieg in the west
- Worked example: why Barbarossa stalled
- Japan turns south
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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