British foreign policy, 1919–1939

Paul W. Doerr teaches European and British History at Acadia University, Nova Scotia

• Chronology1. The Background2. The Paris Peace Conference, 1919: ‘An Appalling Dispersal of Energy’3. Maintaining the Peace, 1920-19234. An Era of Stability and Promise, 1924-19295. The Impact of the Great Depression, 1929-19336. The Foreign Office7. From the Rise of Hitler to the Conquest of Ethiopia8. ‘I Love a Crisis’ : The Rhineland and the Impact of the Spanish Civil War, 19369. Active Appeasement, 193810. The End of Appeasement and the Rise of Containment, 193911. ConclusionBibliographical GuideMaps

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