Paper 1: Section B (50 Mins approx)
Conflict & tension (Interwar Years) 1918-1939
Peacemaking
The Armistice 1918
Wilson’s 14 Points
Aims of Big 3: Clemenceau, Wislon, DLG
Did the Big 3 achieve their aims?
Treaty of Versailles
Impact of Versailles: Allies
Reaction to Versailles in Germany
Strengths & Weaknesses of Versailles
League of Nations & International Peace
Formation & Covenant of League of Nations
Organisation of the League
Membership & how it changed
Powers of the league
The League’s agencies
League’s contribution in 1920’s – Successes &
Failures
Diplomacy outside the League
The collapse of the League overview
The effects of the Depression
The Manchurian & Abyssinian crises
Failure of the League in stopping WW2
Causes and events of WW2
Development of tension
The Dolfuss Affair
The Saar
German rearmament including conscription
The Stresa Front
Anglo German Naval Agreement
Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
Mussolini
The Axis & Anti-Comintern Pact
Anschluss with Austria
Reasons for and against Appeasement policy
The Sudeten Crisis & Munich
Ending of Appeasement
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Terms of Treaty (BRAT/LAMB)
Reactions of the Allies
Especially the problems faced by the new states
Aaland Islands, Upper Silesia, Vilna, Corfu and Bulgaria
Locarno Treaties and Kellogg-Briand Pact
Consequences of these failures
Hitler’s aims and Allied reactions (focusing on…)
Reasons for this
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The outbreak of War: Czechoslovakia
USSR: Nazi-Soviet Pact
Invasion of Poland
Responsibility for outbreak of WW2
Britain declares war – September 1939
Key individuals: Hitler, Stalin, Chamberlain
Paper 1 Part B (Option 2 1918-39)
Q11: (Source D – Inference /
analysis
Q12: (Sources E and F) How Useful
Q13: (Knowledge recall / Selection /
Cause & Consequence)
Q14: (Do you agree…)
Marks
4
12
8
16 +
4SPAG
Typical Question: Not limited to…
Source D opposes… How do you know?
How useful are Sources E and F to a historian studying…[x]?
Write an account of how… became… in years…
[X] was the main reason for [Y] in [date]. How far do you agree
Notes for this section of the exam
MAKE SURE YOU GO TO OUR TOPIC’S PAGE IN YOUR EXAM for SECTION B. We are the second option – 1918-1939
Q11: Make sure you use the source in your answer and own knowledge to back up your points / inferences.
Q12: How useful = Useful AND not useful, think about what affects usefulness? (WWWWW / NOP) – Make sure you evaluate usefulness of BOTH sources
eg of not useful: Source E mentions […] but doesn’t give any detail to… which was a vital part of the treaty, therefore makes it less useful.
eg: The information from Source F only talks about the years 1923-24 so doesn’t tell a historian about Germany joining the League of Nations in 1926. Etc
Q13: Give detail, facts and stay focused on the question, use connectives particularly – AS A RESULT OF, THEREFORE, DUE TO, CONSEQUENTLY…
Q14: Make sure you give this question the most time, it is worth the most marks and has SPAG.
Answer the question in the first sentence whether you agree or not with the statement, write it fully. Try to give a ‘How far’ judgement here too. (I agree/disagree
with the statement to a larger extent / mostly…)
Suggestion of structure:
Introduction: Whether you agree or not and the main factors you’ll discuss (make this brief but clear to examiner)
Paragraph 1: All the reasons why the factor in the question is responsible (important) AND not responsible (not important) – refer to the Q’s words eg: …this
therefore was an important action taken by the USSR and without that happening … so was an important factor in leading to WW2, however there was a much
more important factor.
Paragraph 2: All the reasons why other factors are responsible (important) AND not responsible (not important) – refer to the Q’s words start this paragraph with
something like On the contrary / On the other hand… also played an important part in the rising of tensions and started long before …
Paragraph 3: CONCLUSION – Evaluate why / how the factors you’ve chosen rank in importance. If you’re agreeing you need to say why that was more
important than the other factors you’ve discussed.
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