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BB Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918-1939
Study internationalism, peace settlements, revision of peace terms and escalation to war in 1939.
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AQAGCSEHistoryPaper 1 Section B: Wider world depth studies
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Part one: Peacemaking3 objectives
- Study the armistice, including peacemakers' aims, Wilson and the Fourteen Points, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and the extent to which aims were achieved.
- Study the Versailles Settlement, including Diktat, territorial changes, military restrictions, war guilt and reparations.
- 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.
Part two: The League of Nations and international peace3 objectives
- 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.
- Study diplomacy outside the League, including the Locarno treaties and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
- Study the collapse of the League, including the Depression, Manchurian and Abyssinian crises and the failure to avert war in 1939.
Part three: The origins and outbreak of the Second World War3 objectives
- 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.
- Study escalation of tension, including Rhineland remilitarisation, Mussolini, the Axis, Anti-Comintern Pact, Anschluss, appeasement arguments, Sudeten Crisis, Munich and the ending of appeasement.
- 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.
Key terms
armisticeLloyd GeorgeVersaillesDiktatimpactLeague of NationscovenantLocarnoKellogg-Briand PactManchuriaAbyssiniaHitler
Exam tips
- Exam focus: armistice: Support each point about armistice with precise historical evidence.
- Exam focus: Versailles: Support each point about Versailles with precise historical evidence.
Common mistakes
- Avoid confusing armistice: Anchor the answer to Part one: Peacemaking, use precise evidence, and state whether armistice is a cause, consequence, change, continuity or significant development.
- Avoid confusing Versailles: Anchor the answer to Part one: Peacemaking, use precise evidence, and state whether Versailles is a cause, consequence, change, continuity or significant development.
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