Course topics.

Try this with Modern History

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Appeasement, the Munich Agreement 1938 and the Collapse of the Peace
• The Great Depression: Economic Collapse and the Rise of Authoritarianism
• The League of Nations: Structure, Successes and Failures
• The Nature of Fascist and Nazi Ideology and the Exercise of Power
• The Paris Peace Settlement and Its Consequences 1919–1923
• Hitler's Rise to Power 1929–1933: Legal Revolution and Enabling Act
• The Nazi State: Totalitarianism, Propaganda and Terror 1933–1939
• The Weimar Republic: Origins, Crises and Instability 1918–1929
• Lenin's New Economic Policy 1921–1924 and the Succession Struggle
• Social and Cultural Change in the Soviet Union 1917–1941
• Stalin's Five-Year Plans and Collectivisation: Economic Transformation and Human Cost
• The February and October Revolutions 1917: Causes and Outcomes
• The Great Terror 1936–1938: Purges, Show Trials and the NKVD
• The Russian Civil War 1918–1921 and Bolshevik Consolidation of Power
• Deng Xiaoping's Reforms, the Democracy Movement and Tiananmen Square 1989
• Mao's Cultural Revolution 1966–1976: Causes, Course and Consequences
• Blitzkrieg, the Fall of France and the Battle of Britain 1939–1940
• Operation Barbarossa, the Eastern Front and the Holocaust 1941–1945
• Origins of the Second World War in Europe: Aggression, Appeasement and Alliance Failure 1935–1939
• The Grand Alliance, D-Day and the Defeat of Nazi Germany 1943–1945