✓ The contribution of other nations to the outbreak of war - INTERNATIONAL POLICIES (not incl notes)

Question 1

How did international policy influence the move towards war?

Answer 1

by the conditions it created
- new nations/borders etc.
- uneasy political atmosphere
- altho offset by genuine desire for peace

Question 2

What was unstable in Europe after WW1?

Answer 2

central & eastern europe
- borders, rulers, government systems had changed in most countries since 1914

Question 3

What policy created new nations?
+ explain?

Answer 3

policy of self-determination
- created new, small, independent states
e.g. Estonia, Lithuania (economically, politically & militarily weak)
+
many disputed borders given = 1920s series of disputes that threatened to start a war

Question 4

What was the most significant ideological divide in Europe?

Answer 4

communist Russia & capitalist West
- R set up comintern
- comm party membership rose in the West
- BUT during R civil war (1917-20) Western powers backed the ‘whites’

Question 5

What was the new political divide in the mid 1930s

Answer 5

3 dictatorships (G, Ita, J)
- differences in ideologies BUT united by anti-comm beliefs
- as became more aggressive Br & Fr saw as dangerous
vs.
Stalin
- dictatory & signif red army
- Br saw as a good potential ally against G but didn’t want to