Unit 16: Paper 2 — Causes and Effects of 20th-Century Wars
Topic 16.3: Effects of war Questions
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Which US-funded programme poured money into rebuilding Western Europe after 1945?
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Which article of the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to accept blame for starting the war?
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Which four empires collapsed as a result of the First World War?
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Which event of 1917 created the world's first communist state?
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Into how many occupation zones was Germany divided after the Second World War?
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Which country suffered by far the heaviest death toll in the Second World War, at around 27 million?
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The Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46 established which key principle of international law?
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The First World War helped cause which 1917 event that created the world's first communist state?
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Which leader wanted a fair, lasting peace based on the Fourteen Points and a League of Nations?
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Evaluate the view that the Second World War was the main cause of the Cold War.
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Compared with the First World War, the deaths in the Second World War were:
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Approximately how much US aid did the Marshall Plan of 1948 provide to rebuild Western Europe?
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Which peace treaty of 1919 was widely resented in Germany as a humiliating 'diktat'?
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At which conference of February 1945 did the Big Three include Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill?
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In which year was the League of Nations founded?
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Examine the political effects of one twentieth-century war.
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Compare and contrast the effectiveness of the League of Nations and the United Nations as products of peacemaking.
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Evaluate the significance of reconstruction as an effect of one twentieth-century war.
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Discuss the view that the League of Nations was doomed to fail from the moment it was founded.
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Which country never joined the League of Nations, leaving it weak from the start?
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