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1 Hitler’s War: Words and Military Planning
1 The Hiler Youth
1 What was the German Revolution
2 Hitler’s War: Opportunity and Diplomacy
2 Prejudice.
2 Why was 1923 so bad for Germany?
2 Women in Nazi Germany-getting theright perspective
2 Working backwards to explain WW1
2 WW2 and the Treaty of Versailles-1
2020 TOK Essays
3 Fear: the psychology behind the decisions made in the July Crisis
3 Hitler’s Diplomacy: Anschluss
4 Was Hitler a planner or a gambler
4 Weltpolitik Paragraph
4. The Course and Nature of WW2
5. Stalin
6. Hitler
A basic common factor
A Time Frame: 1918-1924
A Time Frame: 1928-1924
Active Reading and Note- taking
AgricultureandIndustry
Al Capone
America in the Twenties and Thirties
AmericaandKorea
American Isolationism
An overview of Appeasement
Analysing American Society
Approaching the essay
Approaching the Essay: analyses and explanations
Ayatollah Khomeini
Banks going bankrupt
Be careful what you wish for
Blitzkrieg
Brazil
BRICS
China
China in the Time of the Qing Dynasty
China in the Time of the Qing Dynasty
Cises in the Eastern Bloc and MUN
Collectivisation: A matter of economics, ideology and power
Collectivisation: A matter of economics, ideology and power
Communism
concepts
Conservatism
Context
Context to the Nazi-Soviet Pact
Context to the vote
Contextto Hungary Berlinand Czechoslovakia
Controlling the media
Counter-Reforms
Crisisofthemonarchy
Danzig
Dealing With Revision
Democracies and Dictatorships
Democracy
Didlivesimprove
Didworkersbenefit
Disagreements
Does one source prove another wrong?
Eastern Europe and the End of the Cold War
EconomyAlexIII
Eleanor
ElectionResults
Elementor #4196
Essay
Explaining1933
Explainingthefirstfasciststate
Families
Famous Flappers
Fascism
First Batch
Franz Joseph
FundamentalWeaknesses
Futility of Prohibition
Garding2
Germany and the Cold War
Germany and WW2
GermanyandWW1
Goebbels
Government Policy
Grading
HerbertHoover
Historiography + TOK
Hitler’s Diplomacy: Anschluss
Hitler’s Diplomacy: the road to Munich
Hitler’s Rise to Power
Hitler’s second great mistake
Hitler’s War: Opportunity and Diplomacy
Hitler’s Bravery
Hitler’s Diplomacy: Anschluss
Hitler’s great mistake in 1941
Hitler’s War: Opportunity and Diplomacy
Hitler’s War: Words and Military Planning
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Hoover and Roosevelt`s responses to the Depression pre 1932
How and why did America get it so wrong in Vietnam?
How did the UN become involved in the Korean War and with what consequences?
How the American economy worked
Human Nature and the Historian
Hungary and Czechoslovakia – compare and contrast
Hungary Berlinand Czechoslovakia-Six Common Factors
Hungary’sunpopulargovernment
IB Short Pieces
IB Skills
IGCSE DEPTH STUDIES
IGCSE Skills
Immediate War Aims
Immediate Wars Aims
ImpactoftheCrash
Imperialism and Nationalism
Japan’s great mistake
KarlandRosa
Key factors
Key Nazi Profiles
Key Term 6
Key Terms 1
Key Terms 2
Key Terms 3
Key Terms 4
Key Terms 5
KeyTerms
Know you’re a, b, c’s
Learning History in Nazi Germany
Left, Right and Centre
Liberalism
Life in Nazi Germany
Looking for Recovery and Reform in the TVA initiative
Lucky Hitler
Lucky Hitler 2
Mao
Markets
Marxism-Maoism
May2021
Measuring Success
Membership
Murder
Nazi Control of Germany
Nazi Election Campaigns
Nazi Murderers
Nazi Support
Never inevitable
Never2
Newsletter
No quick victory: the failure of the Schlieffen Plan (and the French Plan XVII)
November 2020 TOK Essays
Opposition in democracies and single-party states
Opposition in Nazi Germany: the Reverend Niemoller
OrderNo1
People
People means choices
PodCast Scripts
Introduction Podcast
Propaganda
Protagonists
ResponsestoGR
Roosevelt’sAims
Rosa and Karl
Rosa and Karl
Saddam and Ayatollah Khomeini
Saddam and Khomeini
Saddam and Stalin
Saddam’s route
Short Pieces
IB DIPLOMA
1. Causes of WW1
1 Linking the July Crisisto long-term factors
3. The Causes of WW2
3. The Course and Nature of WW2
Hitler and Nazi Germany
Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution
Mussolini and the First Fascist State
Stalin and the Soviet Union
The End of Tsarism in Russia
The Nature and Course of WW1
The Spanish Civil War
Weimar Germany
Short pieces from the IGCSE Core programme
Causes of the Cold War
Fundamental Factors versus Events
Personalities
The Blame Game
What was the Cold War?
When did the Cold War begin
Why were Western governments suspicious?
Containment
Americas Mistake
Cold War in the Middle East
The Cold War in America’s backyard
The UN and Korea
What was Containment?
Why the interestin Cuba
Germany and WW2
GW2 – The Four Big Factors
GW2 – To what extent can the Treaty of Versailles
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
LN – American membership
LN – The Commissions
LN – The great novelty incorporated in the Paris Peace Treaties
LN – The Significance of Disarmament
LN – What was the significance of Manchuria?
LN – Why Abyssinia was so significant
The Treaty of Versailles
TV – Self-determination
TV – Context to the Paris peace treaties
TV – French (In)Security: What were the issues?
TV – The position of the Big Three
TV – The Treaty of Versailles and the importance of context
TV – War Guilt and the Treaty of Versailles
Short pieces from the KS3 Modern History
Fascism in Europe
Civil Rights
The Communist World
Wars
Short Pieces for the Gulf
Skills for IGCSE and IB Diploma
SocialConsequences
Socialism
Sources Sorcery
Splitsin Islam
Stalin’s Consolidation of Power: the Ryutin Affair, ‘the original conspiracy’
Stalin’s Eastern Bloc
Stalin’s Rise to Power: beware the man nobody sees
Strategy and Tactics
The ‘Roaring Twenties’
The “American Way” and the New Deal
The American Economy in the 1920s
The Balance of Power
The Causes of WW1: Alliances and Militarism
The Communists and the Fight Against the Japanese: more nationalist than the Nationalists
The Context to Hitler’s Rise to Power
The Cult of Stalin
The Cyclical Economy
The Debate
The Exam!
The Failure of the Schlieffen Plan
The German Revolution 2
The Gulf and the Superpowers
The Gulf States
The Hitler Factor
The Hitler Youth in WW2
The Hundred Flowers Opinion Poll
The July Crisis
The League of Nations: the great novelty incorporated in the Paris Peace Treaties
The New Deal
The Pesky Essay
The pesky essay: more thought on conclusions
The pesky essay: more thoughts on introductions
The Pesky Source Paper: Qs 2+3
The Philosophical Base of Nazism
The problem with debt
The purpose of Roosevelt’s first New Deal
The relationship between agriculture and industry
The Reverend Martin Niemoller’s opposition
The Roaring Twenites
The Significance of the Long March
The Significance of the Seventeenth Party Congress
The SS-SD-Gestapo
The State
The Three Ugly Sisters
The Wall Street Crash
The War at Sea
The War at Sea
The100Days
Their strengths and weaknesses
Their strengths and weaknesses
Thesetting
TheShah
TheTotalitarianState
To control or appease: two different approaches made by Hitler to two different groups
Triumph
Two peoples
Two Peoples 2
Two peoples and one patch of land
TwoSiberias
Ukraine
Ukraine Scripts
Understanding Armies
Unemployment
Unemployment
War
War Guilt
War Guilt
Weimar and Nazi Germany
Weimar Germany
Weimar Germany: a timeline from 1918 to 1924
Weimar’s Achievements
Weimar’s Achievements
What did Hitler do
What did the Nazis stand for?
What led to the Great Leap Forward
What was Containment?
WhatHitlerdid
Where history trumps geography
Who voted for the Nazis
Why the Gulf matters
Why the League failed
Why were both America and the Soviet Union so interested in Cuba?
Whydidtheeconomyboom
WhythePGfell
WhyTsarismCollapsed
Women
WW1 and the Middle East Today
YaltaandPotsdam
