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The Peace Treaties 

  

How to study this topic:

1.    Start by reading some easy sources – start by watching the Make Germany Pay video, then read Peter Moss, or the ‘Basics ’ sheet in the ‘Going Deeper’ panel on this page.  Get a grasp of the basic story.

        Make a list of key dates - leave space to add other dates you may discover during your studies. 

        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 The Paris Peace Conference, Aims of the Big Three, Terms of the Treaty, Germany and the Treaty and How far did the Big Three achieve their aims?  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.    Visit the historiography to learn how historians have interpreted events, and to consider what YOU think about what happend.

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 whether the Treaty was 'fair'

- Giles Hill on the Treaty

- Scott Allsop on the peace treaties

 

YouTube:

Old-fashioned educational summary  - 'classic' account

Make Germany Pay - brilliant overview of the 1920s

 

Old texts:

HAL Fisher on the Treaties of Peace (1935).

PJ Larkin (1965)

Reed Brett (1967)

Peter Moss (1967)