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Paper 1. SECTION A. OPTION V. You will be asked 3 sub-questions on content from the following areas:

Key Issue 1 - Why did tension increase I Europe between 1900 and 1914

Related exercises and activities:

Exercise: Causes of the First World War 1. Diamond Nine exercise created using classtools.net.
Exercise: Causes of the First World War 2. Diamond Nine exercise created using classtools.net.
Exercise: Causes of the First World War Timeline (1) Timeline / Research task created using classtools.net.
 

Key Issue 2 - Why did the assassination at Sarajevo lead to the outbreak of war in 1914?

Key issue 2 - sub unit - The Schlieffen Plan

Key Issue 3 - How did the treaty of Versailles establish peace?

Key Issue 4 - Why did the League of Nations fail in its aims to keep peace?

Key Issue 5 - How did Hitler challenge and exploit the Treaty of Versailles in the period between 1933 and to March 1938?

Key Issue 6 - Why did appeasement fail to prevent war in 1939?

Key Issue 7 - Why did the USA and the USSR become rivals in the period between 1945 to 1949?

Paper 1. SECTION B. OPTION Y. You will be asked ONE question on the following area:

Britain in the First World War.

Battlefields 2006 - photo album.

Key Issue 1 - What was the part played by the British in the defeat of Germany in the First World War?

Sub unit - The BEF and the outbreak of war.

Related activities:

Stalemate on the Western Front, image analysis starter activity created using classtools.net

The Race for the Sea. Map labelling exercise.

Key issue 2 - How did the war change life in Britain?

Related exercises:

Impact of the war on the homefront - image analysis task.

Paper 2. You must answer questions on two depth studies.

America

The United States in the 1920's

The American Dream

The 'Boom'

The Boom - Essay planning

The Roaring Twenties

The Motor Vehicle Industry

The Dark Side of the Boom

Prohibition

Racism and the Ku Klux Klan

American Isolationism

Causes of the Depression

 

America in the 1920's - Powerpoints

 

The New Deal - A brief revision guide

Germany 1919 -1939.

Presentations:

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Video Clips:

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Starter Activities:

Route to Dictatorship - created using classtools.net

Wordshoot - revision game.

Content (detailed)

Germany before the war

The constitution of the Weimar Republic

The impact of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany

German political difficulties, 1919-1923

The German economy between 1919 and 1923

The origins of the Nazi Party and Hitler's early philosophy

The Rise of Hitler

Nazi economic policy

Persecution of the Jews

 

 

 

 

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