Based on How to Take Notes for IB History P1, let’s try to summarize it.
Case study 1: Japanese expansion in East Asia (1931–1941)
Case study 2: German and Italian expansion (1933–1940) Causes of expansion
- The influence of fascism and Nazism on the foreign policies of Italy and Germany
- The impact of domestic economic issues on the foreign policies of Italy and Germany
- Changes in diplomatic alignments in Europe; the decline of collective security; appeasement Events
- German challenges to the post-war settlements (1933–1938)
- Italian expansion: Abyssinia (1935–1936); Albania; entry into the Second World War
- German expansion (1938–1939); Pact of Steel, Nazi–Soviet Pact, and the outbreak of war Responses
- International response to German aggression (1933–1938)
- International response to Italian aggression (1935–1936)
- International response to German and Italian aggression (1940)