History·International relations since 1919 · NSSCO 5.1.3
The collapse of international peace, 1933–39
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Just twenty years after the 'war to end all wars', the world plunged back into conflict. How did peace collapse so completely? We'll follow Hitler's step-by-step destruction of the Treaty of Versailles — rearmament, the Rhineland, Anschluss, Czechoslovakia — weigh up the policy of appeasement, understand the shock of the Nazi–Soviet Pact, and see why Britain and France finally declared war in September 1939.
What you'll learn in this lesson
By the end you should be able to (NSSCO History 5.1.3):
- Discuss the impact of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919-23
- Explain the consequences of the failures of the League in the 1930s
- Evaluate whether Hitler's foreign policy caused the outbreak of the war in 1939
- Evaluate whether the policy of appeasement was successful
- Explain the importance of the Nazi-Soviet pact (Molotov-von Ribbentrop pact)
- Explain why Britain and France declared war on Germany in September 1939
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