·      Problems with German reparations; USA withdrew from the League of Nations; French allies in East-Central Europe (Little Entente); Dawes plan; Locarno conference; international consequences of the failure of Weimar Germany; German unilateral actions 1933-1938; problems of the League of Nations in the 1930s; American neutrality in the 1930s; Soviet foreign policy under Litvinov; Mussolini’s aggressions; Rhineland crisis 1936 and weakening of Western powers; appeasement and Munich Agreement 1938; Polish question 1939; Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 1939; The outbreak of the WW2; the collapse of France and occupation of Western Europe; invasion to the Soviet Union 1941; Atlantic Charter and anti-Hitler alliance; Lend-Lease Act; USA go to war 1941; globalisation of War; the turn of the war on eastern front in 1943; the role of economics and technologies; raising disagreement between West and Soviets in 1944-1945; the road to sovietisation of Central Eastern Europe; Potsdam conference.