The Treaty of Versailles
1. Key Terms 2. War Guilt - Should Germany alone be blamed? 3. The importance of context - Helping you to fully understand the treaty 4. Context to the Paris peace treaties 5. The position of the Big Three - Where the leaders stood from a variety of perspectives 6. Why the Big Three disagreed so much 7. French (In)Security - France's big concern 8. Self-determination 9. Danzig 10. Key factors to the Paris peace treaties
The League of Nations
1. Key Terms 2. A novelty - Just how different was the League of Nations? 3. Issues around membership 4. American membership - Why it was so critically important 5. The Commissions - Often overlooked but they show that the League was not a complete failure 6. The significance of Manchuria - The League shows the degree of its weakness for the first time. 7. The Significance of Disarmament 8. Why Abyssinia was so significant 9. Why the League failed
The Causes of WW2
1. Key Terms 2. The Four Big Factors - Explaining WW2 in a nutshell 3. WW2 and the TofV1 - Arguments that point to the treaty but other factors too 4. WW2 and the TofV2 - To what extent can the Treaty of Versailles be blamed for WW2 5. The significance of American isolationism 6. What Hitler did 7. Was Hitler a planner or a gambler? - Digging deeper: What exactly is meant by this debate? 8. Could Hitler have been stopped? 9. An overview of Appeasement
Explaining the Cold War
1. Key Terms 2. What was the Cold War - An ideological war, a propaganda war but a hot war too 3. Fundamental Factors versus Events - A different spin on long term and short term factors 4. The Blame Game - Outlining where blame lies on both sides 5. Personalities - A look at Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Truman 6. Why were Western governments suspicious of the Soviet Union? 7. When did the Cold War begin? 8. The agreements made at Yalta and Potsdam
Containment
1. Key Terms 2. What was Containment? - America's battle plan to win the Cold War 3. Why did America get involved in Korea? 4. The UN and Korea - How did the UN become involved in the Korean War and with what consequences? 5. Why the interest in Cuba? - Why were both America and the Soviet Union so interested in Cuba? 6. America's mistake - How and why did America get it so wrong in Vietnam? 7. The Cold War in America's backyard 8.The Cold War in the Middle East
Eastern Europe and the End of the Cold War
1. Key Terms 2. The Eastern Bloc - The Occupation of Eastern Europe by Stalin's forces from the perspective of the occupied 3. Context to Hungary, Berlin and Czechoslovakia - From the perspective of leaders as well as a wider context 4. Why was Hungary's Soviet-backed government so unpopular 5. Hungary and Czechoslovakia Compared - A framework of what was similar and what was different 6. Hungary, Berlin and Czechoslovakia - Six common factors to take from these crises 7 Hungary, Berlin and Czechoslovakia: a basic common factor 8. Crises in the Eastern Bloc and MUN
The Gulf at War with Itself
1. The Gulf States - An overview of the region: its history, politics and its economies 2. Splits in Islam - Understanding Sunni and Shiite Muslims 3. Saddam and Stalin - Stalin as Saddam's role model 4. Why the Gulf matters - Why the events in the Gulf and the wider Middle East always mattered 5. The Gulf and the Superpowers 6. Saddam's route to power 7. Why was the Shah and his regime unpopular? 8. Ayatollah Khomeini