Unit 16: Paper 2 — Causes and Effects of 20th-Century Wars
Topic 16.3: Effects of war Questions
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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 country suffered by far the heaviest death toll in the Second World War, at around 27 million?
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At which conference of February 1945 did the Big Three include Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill?
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Evaluate the view that the Second World War was the main cause of the Cold War.
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Which country never joined the League of Nations, leaving it weak from the start?
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Which peace treaty of 1919 was widely resented in Germany as a humiliating 'diktat'?
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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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Compare and contrast the effects of two wars from different regions.
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Examine the political effects of the First World War on Europe.
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To what extent was the collapse of empires the most significant effect of the First World War?
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Examine the impact of the Second World War on the global balance of power.
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Examine the effects of one twentieth-century war on the balance of power.
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Discuss the economic effects of one twentieth-century war.
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Evaluate the successes and failures of peacemaking after one twentieth-century war.
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Discuss the view that the effects of the Second World War were more far-reaching than those of the First World War.
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Analyse the human cost of one twentieth-century war.
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Discuss the claim that the peace settlement of 1919 caused more problems than it solved.
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