A Low, Dishonest Decade: The Great Powers, Eastern Europe, and the Economic Origins of World War II, 1930-1941

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Bloomsbury Academic, Oct 28, 2002 - History - 560 pages

Almost all written histories of the period leading up to World War II stress political, diplomatic, and ideological conflicts. Arguing that previous historians have confused effect for cause and have considered these conflicts without reference to the systemic problems that provoked them, Paul Hehn focuses on the fierce rivalries among the Great Powers in the relentless search for markets during the world depression of the 1930s. These rivalries were exacerbated particularly in southeastern Europe where Germany dominated the economies and trade arenas of its neighbors in a semi-colonial manner. In A Low Dishonest Decade, Hehn surveys the five Major Powers and all the Eastern European countries from the Baltic to Turkey. But he primarily canvases the economic situations in strategic locations like Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.

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Italy the Powers and Eastern Europe 19181939 Mussolini
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French or German
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Nazi Germanys Imperialist
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Paul N. Hehn is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Brockport, USA. He is a veteran of World War II (the Pacific Theater) and the author of A Low Dishonest Decade (Continuum, 2006).

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