The Tudors - Wolsey's Foreign Policy

The Tudors - Wolsey's Foreign Policy

Prof. John Guy's keynotes for AS/A2-level students and all those interested in Tudor History. Hosted by tudors.org.

This site contains a vast body of Prof. Guy's notes, as well as other papers, talks etc. There is also a forum for debating the key issues.

Link to keynotes (outside THF network).

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Mussolini's Foreign Policy

John Gooch, University of Leeds.

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Timeline of Soviet Foreign Policy, 1928-1941

Recommended by Dr. Alastair Kocho-Williams, Senior Lecturer in History, University of the West of England.

1928: ‘Third Period’ launched; doctrine of Social Fascism

1929: USSR signs Kellog-Briand Pact

Sept 1934: USSR joins league of Nations

May 1935: Pacts with France and Czechoslovakia

August 1935: Comintern supports Popular Fronts

1936 – 1939: Spanish Civil War

Nov 1936: Anti-Comintern pact of Germany & Japan (Italy signs 1937)

Sep 1938: Munich Conference (USSR excluded)

April 1939: Litvinov proposes triple Military alliance – Britain, France and USSR

May 1939: Litvinov dismissed; Molotov becomes Foreign Commissar

August 1939: Nazi-Soviet Pact concluded

June 1941: Germany invades USSR

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Further Reading re 'Stalin's ForeignPolicy'

Recommended by Dr. Alastair Kocho-Williams, Senior Lecturer in History, University of the West of England.

Boyce, R and Maiolo, J (eds). The Origins of World War Two: the Debate Continues

Carr, E.H. German-Soviet Relations between the Two World Wars

Godoretsky, G. (ed). Soviet Foreign Policy in Perspective, 1917-1991


Haslam, J. The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe, 1933-39

Hochman, J. The Soviet Union and the Failure of Collective Security, 1934-1938


Nation, R.C., Black Earth, Red Star: A history of Soviet Security Policy, 1917-1992

Ragsdale, H. The Soviets, the Munich Crisis and the Coming of World War II

Roberts, G. The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War: Russo-German

Relations and the Road to War, 1933-1941


Roberts, G. The Unholy Alliance: Stalin's Pact with Hitler

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Who was more important in directing foreign policy, 1515-1529; King Henry VIII or Wolsey?

Glenn Richardson, St.Mary's University College.

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Battle of Hattin (1187)

Graham Loud, University of Leeds.
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Stalin's Foreign Policy

Alastair Kocho-Williams, University of the West of England.

This podcast examines Stalin's foreign policy in the interwar years. Dr Kocho-Williams examines Stalin's foreign policy aims during the 1930s, discussing the failure of collective security and the conclusion of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939. The podcast covers the Soviet Union's conduct of foreign policy using both diplomacy and the Communist International.

Contents:

1. The aims of Soviet foreign policy under Stalin, 1928-1941
2. Collective Security and its failure
3. The Soviet Union and the Spanish Civil War
4. The Nazi-Soviet Pact, August 1939
5. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, June 1941

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