Unit 13: Paper 3 — History of Europe (HL)
Topic 13.9: Europe and the Second World War (1918–1949) Questions
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Choose the correct answer. In the general election held immediately after victory in Europe, which party defeated Winston Churchill's Conservatives in a landslide?
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Choose the correct answer. Which 1942 document set the blueprint for Britain's postwar welfare state, including the NHS founded in 1948?
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What event in March 1936 was a treaty-breaking gamble by Hitler that Britain and France allowed to pass unopposed?
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Which body within the League of Nations structure was its main day-to-day decision-making body, meeting more frequently than the Assembly to handle emerging crises?
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Who chaired the Wannsee Conference of January 1942, at which the deportation machinery of the 'Final Solution' was coordinated?
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Who were the four leaders present at the Munich Conference in September 1938, which allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland?
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Choose the correct answer. Which group of British residents was interned as suspected security risks in 1940, despite many being Jewish refugees from Nazism?
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Which of these is an example of state-level collaboration with the Holocaust rather than individual or institutional collaboration?
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Choose the correct answer. At which 1943 conference did Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agree that the Western Allies would open a second front in France?
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Which event in 1941 marked the point at which mass shooting of entire Jewish communities began on a large scale?
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Choose the correct answer. Roughly how many German and other Axis troops were lost when Hitler refused to allow the 6th Army to retreat from Stalingrad in 1942–43?
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What new legal category was created at the Nuremberg Trials (1945–46) to prosecute Nazi leaders for the Holocaust?
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April–May 1943 is best described as an example of which type of response to the Holocaust?
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In the 1921 dispute over the Åland Islands between Sweden and Finland, what was the outcome?
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What was the key weakness of the League's response to Italy's invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, alongside the secret Hoare-Laval Pact?
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To what extent do you agree that Britain and France's handling of the Abyssinian Crisis (1935–36) was a greater betrayal of collective security than their appeasement of Hitler at Munich (1938)?
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Evaluate the claim that the League of Nations was doomed to fail from its creation in 1920, regardless of how member states behaved in the 1930s.
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To what extent do you agree with the claim that economic factors were the most important reason for Allied victory in Europe by 1945?
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Discuss the view that Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement was a rational response to Britain's circumstances in the late 1930s, rather than a naive mistake.
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Evaluate the claim that the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 1939 was primarily a consequence of Western failures to include the Soviet Union in collective security, rather than a product of Stalin's own strategic calculation.
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