We study this unit in the Michaelmas
term of the fifth form.
It is examined as part of PAPER
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Key Issue:- How did the Treaty of Versailles establish peace?
Paris Peace Conference: Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau
- their views and motives.
Main terms of the Treaty of Versailles - territorial changes, military
restrictions, war guilt and reparations.
Key issue: - Why did the League of Nations frequently
fail in its aims to keep peace?
The League of Nations - membership, organisation, powers
and peace keeping role.
Crisis of Manchuria (1931-2)
Crisis of Abyssinia (1935-6).
Key Issue: How did Hitler challenge and exploit
the Treaty of Versailles in the period 1933 to March 1938?
Hitler’s aims and expansionist policies
the Saar
Rhineland 1936
Austria 1938.
Key Issue: Why did appeasement fail to prevent
the outbreak of war in 1939?
Appeasement and Chamberlain
Hitler - Aryan supremacy and Lebensraum
Sudetenland and Munich agreement
Czechoslovakia, March 1939
G rowing tensions including role of USSR
Nazi Soviet Pact
Poland and the outbreak of war.
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