Paper 1 Section B: Wider world depth studies

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• BA Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894-1918: Study the outbreak of war, including Slav nationalism, Serbia and Austria-Hungary, Sarajevo assassination, July Crisis, Schlieffen Plan, Belgium and reasons for the escalation of conflict.
• BA Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894-1918: Study the Alliance System, including the Triple Alliance, Franco-Russian Alliance, Entente relations, Moroccan crises and Balkan crises and their effects on international relations.
• BA Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894-1918: Study military developments in 1918 and their contribution to Germany's defeat, including tactical and technological evolution, Ludendorff's Spring Offensive and the Allied advance during the Hundred Days.
• BA Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894-1918: Study Germany's surrender, including the blockade, Kaiser's abdication, armistice and the contributions of Haig and Foch to Germany's defeat.
• BA Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894-1918: Study the Western Front, including military tactics, technology, trench warfare, attrition, Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele, and the reasons, events and significance of these battles.
• BA Conflict and tension: the First World War, 1894-1918: Study the wider war, including other fronts, Gallipoli and its failure, and the events and significance of the war at sea including Jutland, U-Boats and convoys.
• BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918-1939: Study the outbreak of war, including Czechoslovakia, the USSR, the Nazi-Soviet Pact, invasion of Poland, September 1939 and responsibility for war including Hitler, Stalin and Chamberlain.
• BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918-1939: Study the development of tension, including Hitler's aims, Allied reactions, the Dollfuss Affair, Saar, German rearmament, conscription, Stresa Front and Anglo-German Naval Agreement.
• BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918-1939: Study the League of Nations, including formation, covenant, organisation, membership, powers, agencies and contributions to peace in the 1920s including Aaland Islands, Upper Silesia, Vilna, Corfu and Bulgaria.
• BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918-1939: Study the collapse of the League, including the Depression, Manchurian and Abyssinian crises and the failure to avert war in 1939.
• BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918-1939: Study the impact of the treaty and wider settlement, including Allied reactions, German objections and strengths and weaknesses of the settlement including problems faced by new states.
• BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918-1939: Study the Versailles Settlement, including Diktat, territorial changes, military restrictions, war guilt and reparations.
• BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972: Study the Thaw, including Hungary, protest, Nagy's reforms, Soviet fears and reaction, effects on the Cold War, the U2 Crisis, Paris Peace Summit and the peace process.
• BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972: Study military rivalries, including the arms race, NATO, Warsaw Pact and the space race including Sputnik, ICBMs, Polaris, Gagarin and Apollo.
• BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972: Study the end of the Second World War, including Yalta, Potsdam, division of Germany, contrasting USA and USSR ideologies, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Attlee, Truman and the atom bomb's effect on superpower relations.
• BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972: Study the Iron Curtain and East-West rivalry, including Soviet expansion in East Europe, US policies, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Stalin's reaction, Cominform, Comecon, Yugoslavia, Berlin Blockade and Airlift.
• BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972: Study tensions over Cuba, including Castro's revolution, Bay of Pigs, missile crisis, Castro, Khrushchev, Kennedy, USA fears, reaction to missiles, dangers and results.
• BC Conflict and tension between East and West, 1945-1972: Study the Berlin Wall, including reasons for its construction and Kennedy's response.
• BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975: Study the end of the Korean War, including stalemate around the 38th Parallel, peace talks, armistice and impact on Korea, the UN and Sino-American relations.
• BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975: Study the causes of the Korean War, including Korean nationalism, US relations with China, division of Korea, Kim Il Sung, Syngman Rhee, North Korea's invasion in June 1950, US and UN responses and USSR absence from the UN.
• BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975: Study US involvement, including the Domino Theory, intervention under Eisenhower and Kennedy and the Strategic Hamlets programme.
• BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975: Study the end of French colonial rule, including Dien Bien Phu, Geneva Agreement 1954, South Vietnamese civil war, opposition to Diem and the Vietcong's aims, support, leadership, guerrilla tactics and Ho Chi Minh.
• BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975: Study the end of the war, including Paris Peace talks, Kissinger, US withdrawal, fall of Saigon, the price of conflict and Vietnam's problems in 1975.
• BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975: Study Nixon's War, including Vietnamisation, chemical warfare, bombing from 1970 to 1972, relations with China and widening the war into Laos and Cambodia.
• BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-2009: Study the 2003 invasion of Iraq, including IAEA inspectors, WMD, the military campaign, western interests including oil, Iraqi and international opposition and Saddam Hussein's downfall.
• BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-2009: Study the impact of war on Iraqi people and across the world, including insurgency, elections, transfer of powers to the National Assembly, global anti-US and anti-UK terrorism, the 2007 US troop surge and Iraq's stability by the end of Bush's presidency.
• BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-2009: Study regional instability, including consequences of the Iran-Iraq War, western and Russian interests in Iran and Iraq, oil-supply threats and Israeli-Palestinian conflict contributions to Gulf tension and global-terrorism motives.
• BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-2009: Study the Gulf War 1990, including reasons for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, reactions and roles of Bush and Thatcher, UN campaign against Saddam Hussein, war consequences, US regional influence and Arab reactions.
• BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-2009: Study Al-Qaeda, including its aims, Osama bin Laden and the 11 September attacks.
• BE Conflict and tension in the Gulf and Afghanistan, 1990-2009: Study Afghanistan, including its reputation as a rogue state, the Taliban regime, western and Muslim attitudes to Taliban policies, problems faced by ethnic groups and Taliban resurgence.
• Paper 1 Section B source-analysis requirements: Write a narrative account using knowledge, understanding and second-order concepts of cause and/or consequence.
• Paper 1 Section B source-analysis requirements: Write an essay judgement using historical events, second-order concepts, substantiated reasoning and accurate spelling, punctuation, grammar and specialist terminology.