Europe Between Democracy and Dictatorship 1900 - 1945

Name: Europe Between Democracy and Dictatorship 1900 - 1945
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ISBN: 9780631215127

ISBN-10: 0631215123

ISBN-13: 9780631215127

Edition: 2010

Authors: Conan Fischer

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Fischer offers a captivating analysis of Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century, from the optimism at the turn of the century to the successive waves of destruction of the First and Second World Wars.Written by a leading authority in this field, the book draws upon his areas of expertise Reflects the most recent scholarship in this period of history Whilst laying stress on Europe's major powers and the seminal events of the earlier twentieth century, Fischer pays due attention to the smaller European countries from the Atlantic to the Black Sea and the Baltic to the Mediterranean Extends beyond the political, sociological, and economic paradigms to include…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 8/27/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



List of Maps


List of Figures


Foreword



The European Paradox



The Coming of War



A Balkans War



Why the War Need Not Have Spread



Why the War Spread



Fighting the War



The Opening Gambits: 1914



The Elusive Victory: 1915



The High Noon of Attrition: 1916



The Tipping Point: 1917



Defeat and Victory: 1918



Ending the War: Revolutions and Peacemaking



The Home Front in Wartime



Revolution in Russia



Revolution in Germany



The Legacy of War and the Treaty of Versailles



Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean



Western Upheavals



The Fascist Revolution in Italy



Revision and Recovery, 1919-1929



From Versailles to the Dawes Plan



From Locarno to the Young Plan



Economy and Society: A Faltering Recovery



A Contested Modernity



The High Noon of the Dictators



Economic Armageddon: The Great Depression in Europe



The Rise of the Nazis, 1919-1933



Hitler in Power, 1933-1939



Dictatorship beyond Germany



Challenges in the surviving democracies



Nationalists, Fascists, and Bolsheviks



The Return to War



From Global Disarmament to War: 1932-1939



The Reasons for War



From Poland to the Fall of France: September 1939-June 1940



From Vichy to Pearl Harbor: June 1940-December 1941



Europe Eclipsed



Competing Caesuras: 1940-1 or 1945?



Hitler's War - from Triumph to Oblivion, 1941-1945



Holocaust



Europe: An Honorable Legacy?


Notes


Bibliography


Index