Unit 18: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Europe
Topic 18.15: Diplomacy in Europe (1919–1945) Questions
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Which agreement, signed in August 1939, contained a secret protocol dividing Poland and eastern Europe between Germany and the Soviet Union?
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Which article of the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to accept sole responsibility for causing the First World War?
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What was the approximate number of German military casualties (killed, wounded, captured or missing) suffered by the Sixth Army at the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43)?
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What did Britain agree to in the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of June 1935?
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Which event in June 1944 saw Allied forces open a major new front in western Europe against Germany?
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What was the outcome of the Corfu Incident of 1923?
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At the Munich Conference of September 1938, which territory did Britain, France and Italy agree to transfer from Czechoslovakia to Germany?
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Which treaty replaced the Treaty of Sèvres on more favourable terms for Turkey?
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In which year did the USSR join the League of Nations?
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Which conference held in November 1943 saw Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agree on the timing of the D-Day invasion?
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Examine the reasons why the Treaty of Versailles (1919) generated long-term resentment in Germany.
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Compare and contrast the foreign policies of Britain and the Soviet Union towards Germany in the years 1933 to 1939.
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Evaluate the claim that the Paris Peace Settlement was 'too harsh to be accepted, yet too lenient to be enforced.'
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To what extent was the Munich Agreement of September 1938 responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War?
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To what extent did the absence of the USA and the USSR from the League of Nations undermine European security between 1920 and 1935?
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Examine the reasons for the failure of collective security in Europe between 1931 and 1938.
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Discuss the significance of Mussolini's concept of the 'mutilated victory' for the development of Italian foreign policy after 1922.
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Evaluate the reasons for the collapse of collective security in Europe by 1936.
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To what extent was Hitler's foreign policy between 1933 and 1935 a continuation of, rather than a break from, earlier German revisionism?
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Discuss the role of the wartime alliance between Britain, the USA and the USSR in the defeat of Germany.
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