DEMOCRATIC WEAKNESS

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• DEMOCRATIC WEAKNESS
• AND
• WORLD WAR II

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The Troubled Calm The West in the 1920s

• The League of Nations
• The French Quest for Security
• Soviet and German Cooperation

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Epoch of the Aggressors

• Japan Invades Manchuria, 1931
• Italy Attacks Ethiopia
• The Rhineland and the Axis
• The Spanish Tragedy

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Epoch of the Aggressors

• Appeasement
• Toward Austria and the Sudetenland
• Munich and Democratic Betrayal
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact

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World War II

• A New Way of War
• Blitzkrieg and Sitzkrieg
• Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat
• Mastery of Europe
• War with the Soviet Union
• The United States Enters the War

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World War II

• The Apogee of the Axis
• The Russian Turning Point
• Axis Collapse
• The Holocaust
• The Atomic Bomb