History of the Second World War

In the early 1930s the depression would spread around the globe. WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesChina During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 by Tomoko ShiroyamaGermany and the Great Depression by Dieter PetzinaThe Global Impact of the Great Depression: 1929-1939 by Dietmar RothermundJapan and World Depression: Then and Now Edited By Ronald Dore and Radha SinhaThe Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France and the United States 1931-36 by Patricia ClavinThe Forgotten Man by Amity ShalesThe Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth GalbraithThe Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939 by Patricia ClavinThe Politics of Depression in France 1923-1936 by Julian JacksonThe Slump: Britain and the Great Depression by John Stevenson and Chris CookThe World in Depression 1929-1939 by Charles KindlebergerUnemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany Edited By Peter D. StachuraThe Gold Standard and the Great Depression by Barry Eichengreen and Peter TeminLife Expectancy during the Great Depression in Eleven European Countries by Tim A. Bruckner, Andrew Noymer, and Ralph A. CatalanoThe Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited by Barry EichengreenSocialism and Wages in the Recovery from the Great Depression in the United States and Germany by Peter Temin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Great Depression would have many causes, this episode discusses two of them.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesChina During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 by Tomoko ShiroyamaGermany and the Great Depression by Dieter PetzinaThe Global Impact of the Great Depression: 1929-1939 by Dietmar RothermundJapan and World Depression: Then and Now Edited By Ronald Dore and Radha SinhaThe Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France and the United States 1931-36 by Patricia ClavinThe Forgotten Man by Amity ShalesThe Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth GalbraithThe Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939 by Patricia ClavinThe Politics of Depression in France 1923-1936 by Julian JacksonThe Slump: Britain and the Great Depression by John Stevenson and Chris CookThe World in Depression 1929-1939 by Charles KindlebergerUnemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany Edited By Peter D. StachuraThe Gold Standard and the Great Depression by Barry Eichengreen and Peter TeminLife Expectancy during the Great Depression in Eleven European Countries by Tim A. Bruckner, Andrew Noymer, and Ralph A. CatalanoThe Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited by Barry EichengreenSocialism and Wages in the Recovery from the Great Depression in the United States and Germany by Peter Temin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Italy represented the first nation to come under the control of a Fascist government, and they would do everything in their power to keep it that way.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesFascism in Italian Historiography: In Search of an Individual Historical Identity by Emilio GentileFascism, Industrialism, and Socialism: The Case of Italy by Albert SzymanskiThe Fascist Revolution in Italy: A Brief History in Documents by Marla StoneThe Fiftieth year of the "March on Rome": Recent Interpretations of Fascism by Charles KeserichItalian Intellectuals Under Fascism by Emiliana P. NoetherThe Meaning of Fascism in Italy: Fifty Years After the Fall by Philip V. Cannestraro, Claudio G. Segre, Alexander De Grand, and Furo ColumboMussolini's Italy by R.J.B. BosworthThe Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher DugganThe Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 by Adrian LytteltonAustro-Marxist Interpretation of Fascism by Gerhard BotzThe British Labour Press and Italian Fascism, 1922-25 by Charles KeserichCommunist Theories of Fascism, 1920-1935 by John M. CammettFascinating Fascism by Jeffrey T. SchnappFascism and the French Revolution by George L. MosseFascism from below? A Comparative Perspective on the Japanese Right, 1931-1936 by Gregory J. KaszaFascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945: Issues for Comparativists by Carl LevyFascist Ideology: Territory and expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945 by Aristotle A. KallisFascists by Michael MannThe Five Stages of Fascism by Robert O. PaxtonThe Foreign Office and Fascism 1924-1929 by P.G. EdwardsIntroduction: The Genesis of Fascism by George L. MosseHow Not to Think about Fascism and Ideology, Intellectual Antecedents and Historical Meaning by David D. RobertsInterpretations of the Origins of Fascism by Roberto VivarelliItalian Fascism: Whatever Happened to Dictatorship? by Paul CornerNational Socialism: Totalitarianism or Fascism? by Wolfgang SauerThe Nature of Fascism by Roger GriffinThe Origins and Nature of Fascism and Nazism in Europe by John HornePacifism, Feminism, and Fascism in Inter-War France by Sandi E. Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the March on Rome Mussolini would be made Prime Minister.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesFascism in Italian Historiography: In Search of an Individual Historical Identity by Emilio GentileFascism, Industrialism, and Socialism: The Case of Italy by Albert SzymanskiThe Fascist Revolution in Italy: A Brief History in Documents by Marla StoneThe Fiftieth year of the "March on Rome": Recent Interpretations of Fascism by Charles KeserichItalian Intellectuals Under Fascism by Emiliana P. NoetherThe Meaning of Fascism in Italy: Fifty Years After the Fall by Philip V. Cannestraro, Claudio G. Segre, Alexander De Grand, and Furo ColumboMussolini's Italy by R.J.B. BosworthThe Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher DugganThe Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 by Adrian LytteltonAustro-Marxist Interpretation of Fascism by Gerhard BotzThe British Labour Press and Italian Fascism, 1922-25 by Charles KeserichCommunist Theories of Fascism, 1920-1935 by John M. CammettFascinating Fascism by Jeffrey T. SchnappFascism and the French Revolution by George L. MosseFascism from below? A Comparative Perspective on the Japanese Right, 1931-1936 by Gregory J. KaszaFascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945: Issues for Comparativists by Carl LevyFascist Ideology: Territory and expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945 by Aristotle A. KallisFascists by Michael MannThe Five Stages of Fascism by Robert O. PaxtonThe Foreign Office and Fascism 1924-1929 by P.G. EdwardsIntroduction: The Genesis of Fascism by George L. MosseHow Not to Think about Fascism and Ideology, Intellectual Antecedents and Historical Meaning by David D. RobertsInterpretations of the Origins of Fascism by Roberto VivarelliItalian Fascism: Whatever Happened to Dictatorship? by Paul CornerNational Socialism: Totalitarianism or Fascism? by Wolfgang SauerThe Nature of Fascism by Roger GriffinThe Origins and Nature of Fascism and Nazism in Europe by John HornePacifism, Feminism, and Fascism in Inter-War France by Sandi E. Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In October 1922 the Fascists would take an important step, and they would stage a March on Rome. The results were as good as they could have possibly imagined.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesFascism in Italian Historiography: In Search of an Individual Historical Identity by Emilio GentileFascism, Industrialism, and Socialism: The Case of Italy by Albert SzymanskiThe Fascist Revolution in Italy: A Brief History in Documents by Marla StoneThe Fiftieth year of the "March on Rome": Recent Interpretations of Fascism by Charles KeserichItalian Intellectuals Under Fascism by Emiliana P. NoetherThe Meaning of Fascism in Italy: Fifty Years After the Fall by Philip V. Cannestraro, Claudio G. Segre, Alexander De Grand, and Furo ColumboMussolini's Italy by R.J.B. BosworthThe Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher DugganThe Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 by Adrian LytteltonAustro-Marxist Interpretation of Fascism by Gerhard BotzThe British Labour Press and Italian Fascism, 1922-25 by Charles KeserichCommunist Theories of Fascism, 1920-1935 by John M. CammettFascinating Fascism by Jeffrey T. SchnappFascism and the French Revolution by George L. MosseFascism from below? A Comparative Perspective on the Japanese Right, 1931-1936 by Gregory J. KaszaFascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945: Issues for Comparativists by Carl LevyFascist Ideology: Territory and expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945 by Aristotle A. KallisFascists by Michael MannThe Five Stages of Fascism by Robert O. PaxtonThe Foreign Office and Fascism 1924-1929 by P.G. EdwardsIntroduction: The Genesis of Fascism by George L. MosseHow Not to Think about Fascism and Ideology, Intellectual Antecedents and Historical Meaning by David D. RobertsInterpretations of the Origins of Fascism by Roberto VivarelliItalian Fascism: Whatever Happened to Dictatorship? by Paul CornerNational Socialism: Totalitarianism or Fascism? by Wolfgang SauerThe Nature of Fascism by Roger GriffinThe Origins and Nature of Fascism and Nazism in Europe by John HornePacifism, Feminism, and Fascism in Inter-War France by Sandi E. Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The rise of Fascism throughout Europe, beginning in Italy, would be an important catalyst for future events.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSourcesFascism in Italian Historiography: In Search of an Individual Historical Identity by Emilio GentileFascism, Industrialism, and Socialism: The Case of Italy by Albert SzymanskiThe Fascist Revolution in Italy: A Brief History in Documents by Marla StoneThe Fiftieth year of the "March on Rome": Recent Interpretations of Fascism by Charles KeserichItalian Intellectuals Under Fascism by Emiliana P. NoetherThe Meaning of Fascism in Italy: Fifty Years After the Fall by Philip V. Cannestraro, Claudio G. Segre, Alexander De Grand, and Furo ColumboMussolini's Italy by R.J.B. BosworthThe Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher DugganThe Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy 1919-1929 by Adrian LytteltonAustro-Marxist Interpretation of Fascism by Gerhard BotzThe British Labour Press and Italian Fascism, 1922-25 by Charles KeserichCommunist Theories of Fascism, 1920-1935 by John M. CammettFascinating Fascism by Jeffrey T. SchnappFascism and the French Revolution by George L. MosseFascism from below? A Comparative Perspective on the Japanese Right, 1931-1936 by Gregory J. KaszaFascism, National Socialism and Conservatives in Europe, 1914-1945: Issues for Comparativists by Carl LevyFascist Ideology: Territory and expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945 by Aristotle A. KallisFascists by Michael MannThe Five Stages of Fascism by Robert O. PaxtonThe Foreign Office and Fascism 1924-1929 by P.G. EdwardsIntroduction: The Genesis of Fascism by George L. MosseHow Not to Think about Fascism and Ideology, Intellectual Antecedents and Historical Meaning by David D. RobertsInterpretations of the Origins of Fascism by Roberto VivarelliItalian Fascism: Whatever Happened to Dictatorship? by Paul CornerNational Socialism: Totalitarianism or Fascism? by Wolfgang SauerThe Nature of Fascism by Roger GriffinThe Origins and Nature of Fascism and Nazism in Europe by John HornePacifism, Feminism, and Fascism in Inter-War France by Sandi E. Cooper Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During the 1920s and 1930s the League of Nations would have many issues when attempting to execute on one of its most important goals, disarmament. It would not be the only challenge that the League would face in the 1930s.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSources:Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World by Akira IriyeA History of the League of Nations by F.P WaltersThe Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan PedersenIn Pursuit of Equality and Respect: China's Diplomacy and the League of Nations by Alison Adcock KaufmanCollective Security as Political Myth: Liberal Internationalism and the League of Nations in Politics and History by George W. EgertonTransnationalism and the League of Nations: Understanding the Work of Its Economic and Financial Organization by Patrician Clavin and Jens-Wilhelm WesselsGetting Out of Iraq-in 1932: The League of Nations and the Road to Normative Statehood by Susan PedersenA "Great Experiment" of the League of Nations Era: International Nongovernmental Organizations, Global Governance, and Democracy Beyond the State by Thomas Richard DaviesThe League of Nations Health Organisation and the Evolution of Transnational Public Health by Patricia Anne SealeyThe League of Nations, International Terrorism, and British Foreign Policy, 1934-1938 by Michael D. CallahanJapan and the League of Nations: An Asian Power Encounters the "European Club" by Thomas W. BurkmanExporting Development: The League of Nations and Republican China by Margherita ZanasiThe League of Nations and the Great Powers, 1936-1940 by Peter J. BeckThe League of Nations and the Minorities Question by Carole FinkImperialism and Sovereignty: The League of Nations' Drive to Control Global Arms Trade by David R. StoneThe League of Nations, Public Ritual and National Identity in Britain, c. 1919-56 by Helen McCarthyThe Legacies of Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations in Russia by Alexander S. KhodnevMapping the UN - League of Nations Analogy: Are There Still Lessons to be Learned from the League by Alexandru GrigorescuMinorities and the League of Nations in Interwar Europe by Mark MazowerThe League of Nations and the Settlement of Disputes by Lorna LloydThe Transnational Dream: Politicians, Diplomats and Soldiers in the League of Nations' Pursuit of International Disarmament, 1920-1939 by Andrew WebsterTurkey's Entrance into the League of Nations by Yucel Guclu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Among its many goals the League of Nations hoped to oversee a new way for European colonialism to manifest around the world.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSources:Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World by Akira IriyeA History of the League of Nations by F.P WaltersThe Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan PedersenIn Pursuit of Equality and Respect: China's Diplomacy and the League of Nations by Alison Adcock KaufmanCollective Security as Political Myth: Liberal Internationalism and the League of Nations in Politics and History by George W. EgertonTransnationalism and the League of Nations: Understanding the Work of Its Economic and Financial Organization by Patrician Clavin and Jens-Wilhelm WesselsGetting Out of Iraq-in 1932: The League of Nations and the Road to Normative Statehood by Susan PedersenA "Great Experiment" of the League of Nations Era: International Nongovernmental Organizations, Global Governance, and Democracy Beyond the State by Thomas Richard DaviesThe League of Nations Health Organisation and the Evolution of Transnational Public Health by Patricia Anne SealeyThe League of Nations, International Terrorism, and British Foreign Policy, 1934-1938 by Michael D. CallahanJapan and the League of Nations: An Asian Power Encounters the "European Club" by Thomas W. BurkmanExporting Development: The League of Nations and Republican China by Margherita ZanasiThe League of Nations and the Great Powers, 1936-1940 by Peter J. BeckThe League of Nations and the Minorities Question by Carole FinkImperialism and Sovereignty: The League of Nations' Drive to Control Global Arms Trade by David R. StoneThe League of Nations, Public Ritual and National Identity in Britain, c. 1919-56 by Helen McCarthyThe Legacies of Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations in Russia by Alexander S. KhodnevMapping the UN - League of Nations Analogy: Are There Still Lessons to be Learned from the League by Alexandru GrigorescuMinorities and the League of Nations in Interwar Europe by Mark MazowerThe League of Nations and the Settlement of Disputes by Lorna LloydThe Transnational Dream: Politicians, Diplomats and Soldiers in the League of Nations' Pursuit of International Disarmament, 1920-1939 by Andrew WebsterTurkey's Entrance into the League of Nations by Yucel Guclu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Paris Peace Conference would result in the creation of the League of  Nations, designed to foster communication and cooperation between all nations.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.comSources:Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World by Akira IriyeA History of the League of Nations by F.P WaltersThe Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan PedersenIn Pursuit of Equality and Respect: China's Diplomacy and the League of Nations by Alison Adcock KaufmanCollective Security as Political Myth: Liberal Internationalism and the League of Nations in Politics and History by George W. EgertonTransnationalism and the League of Nations: Understanding the Work of Its Economic and Financial Organization by Patrician Clavin and Jens-Wilhelm WesselsGetting Out of Iraq-in 1932: The League of Nations and the Road to Normative Statehood by Susan PedersenA "Great Experiment" of the League of Nations Era: International Nongovernmental Organizations, Global Governance, and Democracy Beyond the State by Thomas Richard DaviesThe League of Nations Health Organisation and the Evolution of Transnational Public Health by Patricia Anne SealeyThe League of Nations, International Terrorism, and British Foreign Policy, 1934-1938 by Michael D. CallahanJapan and the League of Nations: An Asian Power Encounters the "European Club" by Thomas W. BurkmanExporting Development: The League of Nations and Republican China by Margherita ZanasiThe League of Nations and the Great Powers, 1936-1940 by Peter J. BeckThe League of Nations and the Minorities Question by Carole FinkImperialism and Sovereignty: The League of Nations' Drive to Control Global Arms Trade by David R. StoneThe League of Nations, Public Ritual and National Identity in Britain, c. 1919-56 by Helen McCarthyThe Legacies of Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations in Russia by Alexander S. KhodnevMapping the UN - League of Nations Analogy: Are There Still Lessons to be Learned from the League by Alexandru GrigorescuMinorities and the League of Nations in Interwar Europe by Mark MazowerThe League of Nations and the Settlement of Disputes by Lorna LloydThe Transnational Dream: Politicians, Diplomats and Soldiers in the League of Nations' Pursuit of International Disarmament, 1920-1939 by Andrew WebsterTurkey's Entrance into the League of Nations by Yucel Guclu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the First World War was over, the leaders of the victorious nations convened a Conference in Paris to determine what terms would be presented to their defeated enemies.WebsitePatreonTwitterFacebookDiscordEmail: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices