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• Contents
• Introduction
• Themes and exam tips
• Case study 1: Japanese expansion in East Asia, 1931–41
• Chapter 1: Causes of expansion, 1868–1930
• 1.1: The impact of Japanese nationalism and militarism on foreign policy
• Commodore Perry and the ‘black ships’
• The Meiji Restoration – a period of social and political change
• First stages of imperialism
• The Taisho era: World War I and its immediate aftermath
• 1.2: Japanese domestic issues and their impact on foreign relations
• Political developments – from Taisho democracy to militarism
• Social and cultural change in the 1920s
• Economic challenges – industry and agriculture
• The growth of ultra-nationalism and its threat to democracy
• The Showa era
• 1.3: Political instability in China
• China and Japan, 1911–22
• The Guomindang and the Northern Expedition
• A review of Chapter 1
• Chapter 2: Japanese expansion and foreign policy, 1931–38
• 2.1: The Japanese occupation of Manchuria and northern China, 1931
• The Manchurian Incident
• The creation of Manchukuo
• 2.2: The response in Japan and China to the Manchurian Incident
• Japan – a political response
• Japan – a popular response
• China’s response to the Manchurian Incident
• The Shanghai Incident
• 2.3: The international response to the Manchurian Incident
• The League of Nations and the Lytton Commission
• Soviet Union’s response to events in the East
• A move to global war?
• The Second United Front
• Political tensions within Japan
• The Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936
• 2.4: The Sino-Japanese War, 1937–41
• The Marco Polo Bridge Incident, 1937
• The Battle for Shanghai, August–October 1937
• The fall of Nanjing, December 1937
• A review of Chapter 2
• Chapter 3: The road to war, 1937–41
• 3.1: The impact of the Sino-Japanese War
• A New Order in East Asia
• 3.2: Japan’s relations with Europe, 1938–39
• Japan and the Axis powers
• The outbreak of war in Europe and its impact on Japan
• 3.3: Japan’s relations with the United States and Britain
• The Tianjin (Tientsin) Incident
• 3.4: The signing of the Tripartite Pact
• The border conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union
• 3.5: An overview of US foreign policy after 1936
• The Quarantine Speech
• The end of American isolationism
• 3.6: Final stages of the move to global war
• Operation Barbarossa, June 1941
• The emergence of the ABCD Bloc
• Indochina and the US embargo on oil, 1941
• The failure of diplomacy
• The descent into war
• 3.7: Historiography – different interpretations of the outbreak of war
• A review of Chapter 3
• Case study 2: German and Italian expansion, 1933–40
• Chapter 4: Italian expansion and its consequences
• 4.1: Causes of expansion
• Impact of Mussolini’s Fascism on Italy’s foreign policy
• Impact of domestic economic issues on Italy’s foreign policy up to 1929
• 4.2: Italian expansion and international response
• Italian foreign policy between 1922 and 1933
• Italian foreign policy in the 1930s
• The rise of Hitler in Germany
• Italian expansion in Abyssinia, 1935–36
• Changing diplomatic alliances
• The invasion of Albania, 1939
• A review of Chapter 4
• Chapter 5: German expansion and its consequences
• 5.1: Causes of German expansion, 1933–37
• Historical background
• Germany’s grievances related to the Treaty of Versailles
• The Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler
• Impact of Nazism on Germany’s foreign policy
• What did Nazism propose in foreign policy?
• What were Hitler’s aims?
• How did Hitler plan to achieve these aims?
• Impact of domestic issues on Germany’s foreign policy
• 5.2: German challenges and international response, 1933–37
• The League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference
• International response and early changing diplomatic alliances
• German rearmament and international response
• Anglo-German Naval Agreement
• The remilitarization of the Rhineland
• Changing diplomatic alignments in Europe – Mussolini and Hitler
• 1937 – A year of awareness?
• A review of Chapter 5
• Chapter 6: International responses to Italy and Germany, 1938–40
• 6.1: Moving closer to war
• The Anschluss
• The Sudeten crisis
• The May crisis
• The Munich Conference
• The Polish crisis and the outbreak of war
• German–Italian relations and the outbreak of war
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact
• 6.2: International response between September 1939 and May 1940
• The response of the United States
• War in Europe, September 1939 to May 1940
• The Fall of France
• Italy’s entry into the war
• The Battle of Britain
• 6.3: Historiography – different interpretations of the outbreak of war
• A review of Chapter 6
• Chaper 7: Theory of Knowledge
• Further Reading
• Case Study 1
• Case Study 2
• Glossary
• Index
• Back Cover