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The events preceding World War II in Europe are closely tied to the bellicosity of Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Francoist Spain, and Imperial Japan, as well as the Great Depression. The peace movement led to appeasement and disarmament.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
^For highly detailed coverage see Zara Steiner, The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939 (2011) and Zara Steiner, The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933 (2007)
^ Richard J. Overy, The Origins of the Second World War (2014).
^John E. Moser, Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II (2015).
^J.A.S. Grenville, A History of the World in the Twentieth Century (Harvard UP, 1994) pp 160-251.
^Mark Grossman, Encyclopedia of the Interwar Years: From 1919 to 1939 (2000)
^D.C. Watt, A History of the World in the Twentieth Century (1968) pp 423-463.
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