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This age of conflict, a contemporary world history, 1914-1943 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chambers, Frank P. (Frank Pentland), 1900-, Harris, Christina Phelps, 1902-1972 (Author)
Other Authors: Bayley, C. C. (Charles Calvert), 1907-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1943.
Subjects:
Europe > History > 1918-1945.
History, Modern > 20th century.
History, Modern.
Europe.
1900-1999
Europe > History > 1918-1945
History, Modern > 20th century
Weltgeschichte > 1914-1943
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: The First World War. 191-1915 : the opening campaigns
  • 1914-1916 : the home front
  • 1916 : the dogfall
  • 1917 : "the year of agony"
  • 1918 : the closing campaigns
  • Part Two: The Twenties : the period of settlement. The Peace Conference of Paris and the Treaty of Versailles
  • The League of Nations and the World Court
  • Germany : the revolution and the Weimar Republic
  • Germany : reparations and the Stressemann era
  • The Middle Danube : the new Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
  • Russia : the civil war and the establishment of the Soviet state
  • Poland and the Baltic : democratic experiment and dictatorship
  • Italy : the rise and establishment of the fascist state
  • France and Belgium : finance, party politics, and the French alliance system
  • Britain and the British empire : labor, trade, and imperialism
  • Turkey and the Balkans : the Kemalist revolution ; Balkan nationalism
  • The Near East : the independent states
  • The Near East : the mandates
  • The Far East : the Chinese civil war and the rise of modern Japan
  • The Americas : isolationism and panamericanism
  • The organization of peace : security and disarmament
  • Part Three: The thirties : the period of crisis. The world economic depression
  • The Far East : the Sino-Japanese war
  • Germany : the rise and establishment of Nazism
  • Germany : Nazi foreign policy and reactions in Europe
  • The Middle Danube : fascism, socialism, and Nazism
  • Italy : fascist imperialism and the Italo-Ethiopian war
  • Spain : the republic and the civil war
  • Russia : economics, purges, and trials
  • The Balkans and Turkey : Balkan union and Kemalist republic
  • The Near East : Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Arabia, Persia
  • The Southwest Pacific : The Netherlands East Indies, Thailand, Malaya, and Australia
  • The Americas : the Roosevelt era
  • Poland and the Baltic : preface to partition
  • France : the political turmoil
  • Britain and the British Commonwealth : the Baldwin-Chamberlain era
  • The approach of war : the Austrian Anschluss, Munich, and the fall of Czechoslovakia
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Appendices: The Reichstag peace resolution ; The fourteen points ; The five particulars ; A memorandum of observation ; The Balfour declaration ; The First World War and the Arabs of Arabia ; The covenant of the League of Nations ; The Atlantic charter ; The four freedoms.