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    • 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
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    • A basic common factor
    • A Time Frame: 1918-1924
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    • Active Reading and Note- taking
    • AgricultureandIndustry
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    • America in the Twenties and Thirties
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    • American Isolationism
    • An overview of Appeasement
    • Analysing American Society
    • Approaching the essay
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    • Know you’re a, b, c’s
    • Learning History in Nazi Germany
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    • No quick victory: the failure of the Schlieffen Plan (and the French Plan XVII)
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        • 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
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        • THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
          • LN – American membership
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          • LN – The Significance of Disarmament
          • LN – What was the significance of Manchuria?
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        • The Treaty of Versailles
          • TV – Self-determination
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      • Short pieces from the KS3 Modern History
        • Fascism in Europe
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    • SocialConsequences
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    • Stalin’s Consolidation of Power: the Ryutin Affair, ‘the original conspiracy’
    • Stalin’s Eastern Bloc
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    • Strategy and Tactics
    • The ‘Roaring Twenties’
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    • 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
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    • The Pesky Essay
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    • 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
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    • The100Days
    • Their strengths and weaknesses
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    • 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
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    • Understanding Armies
    • Unemployment
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    • War
    • War Guilt
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    • 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

1. Active Reading and Note-taking

2. Know your a, b, c’s

3. Sources Sorcery

4. Dealing With Revision

5. The Exam!

6. Grading your evaluation

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