FINALS HISTORIOGRAPHY

Jonathan Fenby

"Mao prized disorder as long as he was on top."

Zhou Xun

"Everyone was pitted against everyone else."

Maurice Meisner

The cult of Mao was born out of the Long March.

Frank Dikötter

Mao's regime was characterized by a wave of terror against class enemies.

A.J.P. Taylor

"The Great Depression put the wind in Hitler's sails."

W. Brustein

"Xenophobia alone could not have brought the Nazis to power."

Karl Bracher

"Democracy without democrats." (25/48/53 formula)

John L. Snell

"Resentment of Versailles is not a sufficient explanation."

Tim Mason

By 1939 Hitler had destroyed the economy, so war became necessary to prevent an economic collapse.

Daniel Goldhagen

Many Germans were Hitler's "willing executioners."

Michael Burleigh

Efforts were undermined by the rearmament process in the late 1930s.

Hana Ardent

Total terror total conformity

Patricia Ebrey

Women still carried a double burden.

Arthur Marwick

War was liberating for women.

Jan O'Heren

"The war never ended for comfort women."

Michael Burleigh

(relevant here too) Efforts toward women's welfare were undermined by rearmament priorities in the late 1930s.

Konrad Canis

Russia had conquest aims.

Herfried Münkler

War stemmed from mistakes of leadership.

Margaret MacMillan

The war resulted from a series of deliberate choices.

S.B Fay & H.E. Barnes

Franco-Russian Alliance turned offensive after 1912

AJP Taylor

British neutrality became synonymous with defeat

Michiko Hasegawa

The U.S. embargo forced Japan into war (relevant also to the Pacific War).

Scott D. Sagan

"A humiliating end to the China incident was simply psychologically impossible"

A.J.P. Taylor

The Treaty of Versailles planted the seeds for another war.

Sally Marks

The Treaty of Versailles was not as harsh as often portrayed.

John Keegan

"Schilieffen plan was an aggressive strategy doomed to fail"

Christopher Clark

"War was a fruit of shared political culture"

Kenneth Pyle

"The prime minister has suggested Article 9 (no more war)."