Unit 18: Paper 3 (HL) — History of Europe
Topic 18.15: Diplomacy in Europe (1919–1945) Questions
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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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Examine the methods used by Nazi Germany to exploit and control occupied France between 1940 and 1944.
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To what extent were military and strategic errors, rather than Allied economic strength, responsible for Germany's defeat in the Second World War?
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To what extent was the Paris Peace Settlement of 1919–1923 more damaging to European stability through its treatment of Austria-Hungary's successor states than through its treatment of Germany?
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Discuss the view that the League of Nations was structurally incapable of maintaining collective security from its foundation in 1920.
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To what extent was the Soviet Union's contribution the most important factor in the defeat of Germany in Europe?
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Discuss the reasons for, and consequences of, Germany's occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.
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Evaluate the significance of the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43) as a turning point in the war in Europe.
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the League of Nations in resolving international disputes between 1920 and 1936.
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Compare and contrast the foreign policy aims and methods of Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany between 1922 and 1935.
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Examine Hitler's foreign policy aims and the extent to which he had achieved them by 1935.
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