HIST 215 Lecture 20: HIST+215+handout+20
9 Dec 2017
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Encouragement of popular fronts by stalin and comintern world congress, 1935; formation of. Popular front govt. (socialists and radicals, supported by communists) under l on blum, may. Stalin endorsed popular front of socialist radicals and communist against fascism (b) the spanish civil war: liberal republic, 1931; popular front won majority of seats, feb. Civil war between republican govt. and the nationalists (including the falange) under. Gen. franciso franco: republicans supported by ussr, nationalists by italy and germany; gb and france did not intervene, nationalists prevailed by 1939; dictatorship of franco -75, appeasement. -grounds for appeasement; little political/public support for rearmament and foreign intervention; belief in gb that some of germany"s revisionist demands were legitimate. -stages of inactivity: (1) japanese invasion of manchuria, 1931; Britain was under financial crisis, lack in naval expenditure: no countries could act against japanese, therefore no lon actions (2) germany left league of nations, oct. 1933; hitler revealed airforce and introduced conscription,
