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Suggested Day |
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1
The
alliance system and the Arms race. |
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2
Moroccan Crises 1905 and 1911. |
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3
Bosnian Crisis 1908-9. |
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4
Sarajevo, Austria/Hungary and the Serbs; |
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5
The Schlieffen Plan; |
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6
Events leading to the outbreak of war. |
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7
Inter-war Overview |
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8
Paris Peace Conference: Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau – their
views and motives. |
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9
Terms of Treaty of Versailles – territorial changes, military restrictions,
war-guilt and reparations. |
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10 The League of
Nations: membership, organisation, powers & peacekeeping role. |
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11 Crises of Manchuria
(1931-2) and Abyssinia (1935-6). |
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12 Hitler’s aims: Aryan supremacy and lebensraum;
Hitler's
policies 1933-8:
the Saar; Rhineland; Austria
1938. |
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13
Appeasement and Chamberlain; Sudetenland and Munich Agreement; |
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14
Czechoslovakia, March 1939; growing tensions, 1938-9
including role of USSR; Nazi-Soviet Pact; Poland and outbreak of war. |
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15 Cold War Overview |
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16 East-West
ideological gap; |
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17 Decisions made at
Yalta and Potsdam, and their importance; |
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18 Soviet expansion into Central and Eastern Europe; Iron Curtain; |
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19 Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan;
attitudes of Stalin and Truman. |
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20 Berlin 1945-48;
Berlin blockade and airlift. NATO and Warsaw
Pact; |
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i Korean War;
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ii Khrushchev’s policy
of peaceful co-existence and the USA’s response;
The beginnings of
the Arms Race; space race; |
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iii Hungary, 1956;
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iv
U-2 incident, 1960. |
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v
Berlin Wall; President Kennedy’s visit to Berlin, 1963. |
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vi
The background in Cuba; Castro; friendship with USSR;
Kennedy and
Bay of Pigs; the crisis of 1962
and its results. |
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21 BEF in Europe,
1939-40; Dunkirk;
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Evacuation; |
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23
Battle of Britain;
the Blitz and
air-raid precautions; |
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24
Conscription; internment;
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25
Censorship and propaganda;
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26
Battle of the Atlantic and the effects of submarine warfare; rationing;
the role of women |
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27
D-Day and defeat of Germany. |
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28
Russia Overview |
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29
Government of Nicholas II in 1914; nature of Russian society in 1914;
traditional loyalty; opposition groups. the role of Rasputin;
Impact of World War
I on Russia; military defeat; food shortages and transport dislocation
at home.
Political upheaval
and Tsar’s abdication/ creation of the Russian republic;
Problems facing the
Provisional Government and its failures, including military defeats and
their effects at home. |
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30 Growth of Bolshevik
organisation in summer/autumn 1917; The Bolshevik seizure of power, and
the reasons for their success.
Foundation of
totalitarian rule; end of World War I for Russia, and the Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk; creation of the USSR;
causes, nature and
consequences of the Civil War, 1918-1921. War Communism;
Kronstadt Mutiny;
the New Economic
Policy;
roles of Lenin and
Trotsky. |
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31 Struggle for power
with Trotsky; elimination of other rivals in the 1920s; purges in the
1930s; the 1936 Constitution.
propaganda and
censorship;
Collectivisation of
agriculture;
Five Year Plans and
growth of industry; economic effects. |
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32
Germany Overview |
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33 Origins of the
Weimar Republic; effects of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany;
Problems of the
Weimar Republic, 1918-1924: political weakness; challenges from the Left
and Right; Spartacists; Kapp Putsch; invasion of the Ruhr;
hyperinflation.
Recovery of the
economy; the Dawes and Young Plans; the role of Stresemann. |
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34 Early career of
Hitler; founding of the Nazi Party; Mein Kampf; Munich Putsch;
decline
in support in the Stresemann years.
inability of the
Weimar Republic to cope with the Depression.
Growth in support
for the Nazis, 1929-1933; and its reasons; elections of 1932; invitation
to lead coalition government, 1933. |
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35 Hitler's
consolidation of power - Reichstag Fire; Election of March 1933;
Enabling Act; Elimination of
political opposition – political parties, Trade Unions. Night of the Long
Knives; death of Hindenburg;
Hitler becomes Führer.
One party law and
order – the SS and Gestapo.
Control of
education, youth movements and the media;
censorship and propaganda.
Cultural, racial and
religious persecution;
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36 Economic policy;
increased employment through public works programmes, rearmament and
conscription; self-sufficiency.
Effects of Nazi
policies on people living in Germany. |
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