Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?

Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?

1. What were the long term consequences of the peace treaties of 1919-23?

2. What were the consequences of the failure of the League in the 1930s?

   • Collapse of international order in the 1930s
   • Increasing militarism of Germany, Italy and Japan

3. How far was Hitler's foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in 1939?

   • The Saar
   • Re-mlitarisation of the Rhineland
   • Involvement in Spanish Civil War
   • Anschluss with Austria
   • Appeasement
   • Crises over Czechoslovakia and Poland
   • The outbreak of war

4. Was the policy of appeasement justified?

5. How important was the Nazi-Soviet Pact?

6. Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany in 1939?