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

• Defeat, revolution and the birth of Weimar, 1918–19
• Versailles, reparations and the crisis of 1923
• Political threats and democratic survival, 1919–23
• Weimar recovery, culture and its limits, 1924–29
• Depression, presidential government and Hitler’s appointment
• Nazi consolidation: law, coercion and institutions, 1933–34
• Dictatorship, propaganda and everyday German society
• Racial persecution, war and the Holocaust
• Resistance, defeat, occupation and denazification to 1948
• Writing a qualified Germany essay
• The origins of superpower rivalry, 1945–48
• Containment, alliances and divided Europe
• Nuclear strategy, crisis and arms control
• Cold War conflict, decolonisation and competing perspectives
• Culture, technology, dissent and the Cold War
• Reform, popular movements and the end of the Cold War
• World order after 1989: reunification, Europe and nationalisms
• Sources: origin, nature, purpose and contextual inference
• Comparing sources and constructing a supported synthesis
• Historical study: a focused inquiry and ethical evidence