PSC 1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hegemony, Maginot Line, Appeasement
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Introduction to international politics, lecture 13, week 8. Poland, 1939: march 1939: unilateral british guarantee to poland, august 1939- molotov-von ribbentrop pact, mutual non-aggression, division of eastern europe, germany invades poland, september 1, 1939. Pearl harbor: december 7, 1941- day that will live in infamy, december 11- germany declares war on the us, us enters war with europe-first strategy. Hitler"s welta(cid:374)s(cid:272)hauu(cid:374)g: racial hierarchy with germans (aryans) at the top, germany needed living space- lebensraum, target = soviet union. Master manipulator: expert at manipulating his enemies, appealing to norms they viewed as legitimate, national self-determination for germans, made it difficult to discern his true aims. No hitler, no war: german attempts to undo versailles before hitler. Hossbach memorandum, 1937: force uk to accept german domination of europe, destroy ussr, control eastern europe, after 1945, overseas conquests of uk, usa, defeat france first.
