Europe between Democracy and Dictatorship : 1900-1945.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons 2010.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Europe between Democracy and Dictatorship: 1900-1945
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • List of Figures
  • Foreword
  • 1 The European Paradox
  • 2 The Coming of War
  • 2.1 A Balkans War
  • 2.2 Why the War Need Not Have Spread
  • 2.3 Why the War Spread
  • 3 Fighting the War
  • 3.1 The Opening Gambits: 1914
  • 3.2 The Elusive Victory: 1915
  • 3.3 The High Noon of Attrition: 1916
  • 3.4 The Tipping Point: 1917
  • 3.5 Defeat and Victory: 1918
  • 4 Ending the War: Revolutions and Peacemaking
  • 4.1 The Home Front in Wartime
  • 4.2 Revolution in Russia
  • 4.3 Revolution in Germany
  • 4.4 The Legacy of War and the Treaty of Versailles
  • 4.5 Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean
  • 4.6 Western Upheavals
  • 4.7 The Fascist Revolution in Italy
  • 5 Revision and Recovery, 19198211;1929
  • 5.1 From Versailles to the Dawes Plan
  • 5.2 From Locarno to the Young Plan
  • 5.3 Economy and Society: A Faltering Recovery
  • 5.4 A Contested Modernity
  • 6 The High Noon of the Dictators
  • 6.1 Economic Armageddon: The Great Depression in Europe
  • 6.2 The Rise of the Nazis, 19198211;1933
  • 6.3 Hitler in Power, 19338211;1939
  • 6.4 Dictatorship beyond Germany
  • 6.4.1 Challenges in the surviving democracies
  • 6.4.2 Nationalists, Fascists, and Bolsheviks
  • 7 The Return to War
  • 7.1 From Global Disarmament to War: 19328211;1939
  • 7.2 The Reasons for War
  • 7.3 From Poland to the Fall of France: September 19398211;June 1940
  • 7.4 From Vichy to Pearl Harbor: June 19408211;December 1941
  • 8 Europe Eclipsed
  • 8.1 Competing Caesuras: 19408211;1 or 1945?
  • 8.2 Hitlers War 8211; from Triumph to Oblivion, 19418211;1945
  • 8.3 Holocaust
  • 9 Europe: An Honorable Legacy?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.