Major Controversies of Contemporary History

Major Controversies of Contemporary History provides a detailed analysis of all published sources concerning the major controversies of contemporary history. This book presents the various works dealing with contemporary history covering the period 1914 to 1945.

Organized into three parts encompassing 13 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the complicity of the Serbian government in the Sarajevo outrage on June 28, 1914. This text then discusses the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war on Serbia, taking into account the risk of Russian intervention. Other chapters consider the significant role that the Russian chief of general staff plays in the decision to announce general mobilizations. This book discusses as well the nature of the plans for a preventive war during the period 1933-1934. The final chapter deals with the Potsdam Conference in 1945, wherein the agenda includes the drafting of the peace treaty, the occupation of Germany, and the political organization of liberated Europe.

This book is a valuable resource for historians and students.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One 1914-1918
I The Outrage at Sarajevo- 28th June 1914

1. The Responsibility of Serbia
2. The Role of Count Berchtold
   II The Austro-German Alliance
3. The International Conference of the 26th July 1914
4. Declaration of War on Serbia (28th July 1914)
5. Germany has Afterthoughts (29th July 1914)
6. The Optimism of the German General Staff
7. Austria-Hungary Wavers
   III Great Britain and the Franco-Russiance Alliance
   I.Russian Mobilization (30th July 1914)
8. France and Russian Mobilization
9. The Attitude of Great Britain
   IV The War of Movement - 1914
10. Franco-Belgian Military Co-operation
11. Franco-British Military Co-operation
12. Defeat at Charleroi
13. Moltke and the Battle of the Marne
    V The War of Attrition
14. Verdun
15. The Quarrel Between von Falkenhayn and Conrad
16. The Rise of the Dioscuri
    VI The Confusion 1917
17. The Causes of American Intervention
18. Crisis in the French Command
19. Mutiny on the French Front
20. Austrian Overtures for a Separate Peace
    Part Two - 1919-1939
    I The Peace of Versailles
21. The Rhineland Autonomist Movement (1919)
22. German Reparations
23. The United States and The League of Nations (1919-1920)
24. The Rupture between France and Hungary
25. The Genoa Conference, (1922)
26. The 1922 Moratorium and the Role of Poincare
27. The Collapse of the Rhenist Movement (1923)
    II The United States of Europe
28. Stresemann's Sincerity
29. The Conference at Thoiry (17th September 1926)
30. The Failure of Briand's United States of Europe (September 1929)
    III The Rise of Fascism
31. The Preventive War against Germany (1933-1934)
32. The Blood Purge of June 1934
33. The Assassination of Dolfuss (25th July 1934)
34. Mussolini and the Marseilles Outrage (9th October 1934)
35. The Saar Plebiscite (13th January 1935)
36. The Rome Agreements (6th January 1935)
37. The Hoare-Laval Plan
    IV Immediate Causes of the Second World War
38. The Hossbach Document (5th November 1937)
39. Germany and the Spanish Civil War
40. The French Air Force in 1938
41. Russia and the Munich Agreements
42. The Pact of Paris (6th December 1938)
43. The Failure of Anglo-French-Soviet Negotiations (April-August 1939)
44. Did Russia Really Intend to Provoke War? (23rd August 1939)
    Part Three - 1939-1945
    I The Blitzkrieg
45. "Operation Himmler"
46. Daladier's Secret
47. The Manstein Plan
48. Exercise Weser
49. Lord Gort's Retreat
    II The World War
50. Operation "Sea Lion"
51. The Wooing of Franco
52. The Barbarossa Plan
53. The Russo-Japanese Pact
54. Pearl Harbour
    III Unconditional Surrender
55. The Secret Orders of Admiral Darlan (1oth-13th November 1942)
56. Unconditional Surrender
57. The Treachery of Mihailovic
58. Badoglio Surrenders
59. The Importance of French Resistance
60. The Liberation of Paris
61. The Liberation of Antwerp
62. The Italian Resistance Movement
63. The Battle of Warsaw
64. The Potsdam Conference