INTRODUCTION TO PAPER 1

Units of Study

1. Were the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919-23 fair?
   - The Treaty of Versailles
   - The Treaty of St. Germain
   - The Treaty of Neuilly
   - The Treaty of Sevres
2. To what extent was the League of Nations a success?
   - Disputes of the 1920's
   - Manchurian Crisis
   - Abyssinian Crisis
   - LON structure
3. Why had international peace collapsed by 1939?
   - Hitler's foreign policy
   - The Great Depression
   - Appeasement
   - The causes of the Second World War
4. Who was to blame for the Cold War?
   - Ideological differences between the USA and USSR
   - Yalta and Potsdam Conferences
   - The 'Iron Curtain' and the 'Sovietization' of Eastern Europe
   - The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Aid Plan
   - The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
5. How effectively did the USA contain the spread of Communism?
   - US involvement in Korea (1950-3)
   - US involvement in Cuba (1960-3)
   - US involvement in Vietnam (1954-75)
6. How secure was the USSR's control over Eastern Europe between 1948 and 1989?
   - Cominform, COMECON and the Warsaw Pact
   - The impact of the death of Stalin
   - Khrushchev and De-Stalinization
   - The Hungarian Uprising
   - The Prague Spring
   - Solidarity in Poland
   - Gorbachev
   - The collapse of Communism in Europe
7. Events in the Gulf c.1970-2000
   - Rule of the Shah (1941-79)
   - Rise of the Ba'athists (1968)
   - Rise to power of Saddam Hussein (1979)
   - The Islamic Revolution in Iran (1979)
   - Life in Saddam's Iraq
   - The Iran-Iraq and Gulf Wars
   - Post-Gulf War and the end of the century
8. Depth Study: Germany 1919-45

- The early threats to Weimar Germany
- The Stresemann years
- The rise of the Nazis
- The 'Legal Revolution'
- Life in Nazi Germany
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