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The Road to World War II

  

How to study this topic:

1.    Start by reading some easy sources - for instance, Peter Moss, or the ‘Basics ’ sheet in the ‘Going Deeper’ panel on this page.  Get a grasp of the basic story.

        It might be a good idea to do this before you start to study this topic in class.

2.    Work through the study sections 1-5 above on Hitler's Aims, the 8 Steps to War, Appeasement, Sudetenland, The End of Appeasement and The Nazi-Soviet Pact; you can do this over time as you study the topic in lessons.

        Take advantage of some of the links to explore, more deeply, aspects of the topics which attract your interest.  Try to become ‘an expert’ on some issues.

3.    Read my comments about the need for a Wider Perspective, and study the historiography, to learn how historians have interpreted the causes, and to consider what YOU think about the debates.

4.    Plunder the Cascade webpage to help you write any essays you are given.

5.    When it comes to the exam, the Cascade webpage and the Self-test will be useful as revision tools, along with other exercises in the Revision section of this website.

Going Deeper

The following links will help you widen your knowledge:

Basics - 'panic revision' overview sheet

Basic student's notes

 

Podcasts:

- BBC debate-podcast on what caused the War

- Giles Hill on the Road to War

- Scott Allsop on the Road to War

 

Old texts:

PJ Larkin (1965)

Reed Brett (1967)

Peter Moss (1967)