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Influence of foreign powers Flashcards

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Molotov

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Foreign minister for USSR
Replaced Litinov (Jewish)

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Molotov declares interest in western alliance

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May 1939

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Stalin

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Hoped for closer relationship w/ democracies
Allowed Nazi-Soviet pact to go ahead - Britain and France not serious

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Admiral Drax

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British delegate w/ aristocratic background
Sent on an old merchant ship - British didn’t look serious

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Ribbentrop

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Catalysed negotiations

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Germany and Russia 1920s

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Fought each other in WWI
Treaty of Brest Litovsk
Rapallo Treaty

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Rapallo Treaty

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1922
Led to reconciliation - German rearmament on Soviet soil

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Signals for Germany wanting increased relations

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Stalin replacing Jewish Litinov w/ Molotov
Berlin thinks Stalin not convinced by western democracies

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Updated Rapallo Treaty

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Would included a ‘German Poland’ and ‘Russian Poland’
Later pushed by the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

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USSR overall contribution

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Bolstered Hitler confidence in Poland
Speeds up invasion - mutual interest
Soviets don’t want alliances w/ Western powers - Enables Hitler for alliances

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Clemenceau

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involved in negotiating ToV

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Impact on France WWI

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Cost them 1.5 million men
Caused drop in birth rate

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Little Entente

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1924-27
Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia

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Gov Transition in France

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Right to left wing
1930s

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Marechal Petain

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Creation of Vichy State in alliance w/ Hitler
Led political revolution

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16
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Popular Front took power

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1936
Left-wing gov
rearmament meetings took place

17
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Maginot

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French minister
Increased defence on western border - Maginot line

18
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Flaws of Maginot line

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gaps in the battlements on French border w/ Belgium and Luxembourg

19
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France Overall Contribution

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French policy confused and contradictory
Their demands created deep resentment in Germany

20
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Aims of Italy

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Idea of Mutilated Victory
Italy a revisionist power - not satisfied by ToV even though they won the war

21
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Italy vs Britain coal production

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230 million tonnes vs 1 million tonnes 1938-39

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Locarno Treaty

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1925
Respect Western Borders

23
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Stresa Front

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1935
Action against German attempts to revise Versailles

24
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anti-Comintern Pact

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1937
Italy signed w/ Germany against communism and USSR

25
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Pact of Steel

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1939
Italy follow Germany into war

26
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Italy overall contribution to war

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Mussolini contribution to Hitler’s aims was only helpful in early 30s
Supporting Anschluss helped Hitler destroy Versailles

27
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