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- 1. Was the Treaty of Versailles fair?
- 1. What were the motives and aims of the Big Three at Versailles?
- 2. Why did all the victors not get everything they wanted?
- 3. What was the impact of the peace treaty on Germany up to 1923?
- 4. Could the Treaty be justified at the time?
- 5. What was the impact of the other treaties on the defeated countries?
- 6. Peace Treaties: interactive quiz
- 2. To what extent was the League of Nations a success?
- 1. How far did weaknesses in the League's organisation and membership make failure inevitable?
- 2. How successful was the League's attempts at peacekeeping in the 1920s?
- 3. How important was the League's humanitarian work?
- 4 How far did the Depression make the work of the League more difficult in the 1930s?
- 1. The impact of the Great Depression
- 2. The impact of the Manchurian Crisis
- 3. The impact of the Abyssinian crisis
- 4. Why did the League fail in its aim to facilitate global disarmament?
- 5. League of Nations: quiz
- 3. How far was Hitler's foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939?
- 1. What were the long-term consequences of Versailles and failures of the League of Nations?
- 2. What was the signficance of Hitler's actions 1938 to 1939?
- 4. How important was the Nazi–Soviet Pact?
- 5. The Polish Crisis and the outbreak of war
- 6. Was the policy of appeasement justified?
- 7. Conclusions: which factors were most important?
- 8. Was Hitler's foreign policy to blame for outbreak of war? Quiz
- 4. Who was to blame for the Cold War?
- 1. Did conflicting ideology make the development of the Cold War inevitable?
- 2. Why did the US-Soviet alliance begin to break down in 1945?
- 3. What led to the breakdown of the US-Soviet alliance between 1945 - 46?
- 4. How had the USSR gained control of Eastern Europe by 1948?
- 5. How did the US react to Soviet expansionism?
- 6. What were the consequences of the Berlin Blockade?
- 7. Who was the more to blame for starting the Cold War: the United States or the USSR?
- 8. Who was to blame for the Cold War? Quiz
- 5. How effectively did the United States contain the spread of Communism?
- 1. Case Study 1: Events in Korea 1950 - 1953
- 1. What were the causes of the Korean Crisis
- 2. How did the US react to North Korea’s invasion of South Korea?
- 3. Why did the UN become involved in the Korean War?
- 4. What happened during the Korean War between 1950 and 1953?
- 5. What were the results of the Korean War for US containment?
- 2. Case study 2: The Cuban missile crisis
- 1. What were the causes of the crisis?
- 2. How did the Cuban missile crisis develop?
- 3. How was the crisis resolved?
- 4. What was the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis?
- 3. Case Study 3: American involvement in Vietnam
- 1. What were the reasons for American involvement in the Vietnam War?
- 2. What were US tactics and strategy in Vietnam?
- 3. Why did the US withdraw from Vietnam?
- 4. What was the impact of US involvment in Vietnam?
- 4. Was the US policy of containment successful in Korean, Cuba and Vietnam?
- 5. How effectively did the US contain Communism: quizzes
- 6. How secure was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948–c.1989?
- 1. Why was there opposition to Soviet rule in Hungary, 1956?
- 2. Why was there opposition to Soviet rule in Czechoslovakia, 1968?
- 3. Why was the Berlin Wall built in 1961?
- 4. What was the significance of ‘Solidarity’ in Poland for the decline of Soviet influence in Eastern Europe?
- 5. How far was Gorbachev personally responsible for the collapse of Soviet control over Eastern Europe?