Specification

Unit 1: Studies in Depth

Option 1: Germany 1918–1941

Aftermath of World War I and the Weimar Republic

• Treaty of Versailles and Constitutional Change
• Challenges to Weimar
• Economic and Social Problems, 1918–23
• Stresemann's Policies
• Rise of Hitler and the Nazis
• The Depression and the Fall of Weimar

Nazi Germany, 1933–39

• Nazi Consolidation of Power, 1933–34
• Economic Policies
• Social Policies: Women, Young People and the Churches
• Propaganda and the Creation of the Police State
• The Jews

Nazi Policies and Actions in Europe, 1933–41

• Foreign Policy Aims
• The Early Years, 1933–36
• Increasing Ambitions, 1936–37
• Austria and the Sudetenland, 1938
• Czechoslovakia, Poland and World War II

The End of Tsarism and the 1917 Revolutions

• The Effects of World War I on Russia
• The Causes of the February Revolution, 1917
• The Provisional Government
• The Bolsheviks in Russia in 1917
• The October Revolution, 1917

The Establishment of the Bolshevik State, 1917–24

• Early Months of Bolshevik Control
• Treaty of Brest–Litovsk, March 1918
• The Civil War, 1918–20
• War Communism, 1918 - March 1921
• The New Economic Policy (NEP), 1921–24

Stalin and the USSR, 1924–41

• Leadership Struggle, 1924–29
• Economic Modernisation and the Five Year Plans
• Agriculture and Collectivisation
• Stalin’s Control of the USSR
• Stalin’s Foreign Policy, 1929-41

Option 3: United States of America 1918–1941

USA in the 1920s

• USA and the World 1918–29
• Minority Groups
• Popular Entertainment and Social Change
• Economic Growth in the 1920s
• Prohibition

The Wall Street Crash: Causes and Consequences

• Economic Problems in the USA in the 1920s
• Wall Street Crash, 1929
• Effect of the Depression on Industry and the Lives of Workers
• Effect of the Depression on Agriculture and Lives of Farmers
• Hoover and the Depression
• 1932 Presidential Election and the Hundred Days

Roosevelt and the New Deal

• The New Deal Agencies: Industry and Unemployment
• New Deal Agencies: Agriculture, Farmers and Sharecroppers
• Opposition to the New Deal
• Evaluation of the New Deal

Option 4: Peace, War and Neutrality: Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland 1932-1949

Anglo-Irish Relations up to the Outbreak of World War 11, September 1939

• Dismantling of the Anglo-Irish Treaty
• The Economic War
• Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1938
• Responses to the Outbreak of War, September 1939

The Effects of World War II on Northern Ireland and Éire

• Northern Ireland’s Role in World War II
• The Effects of World War II on the lives of people in Northern Ireland and Éire
• German attacks and their impact on Britain, Northern Ireland and Éire
• Éire’s Neutrality

Post-War Social and Political Changes

• The Welfare State and its Impact
• Life in Éire, 1945-1949
• Constitutional Changes and Effects on Relations

Option 5: Changing Relationships: Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland 1965–1985

Northern Ireland in the 1960s and its Relations with the Republic of Ireland

• O’Neill’s Economic Policies and Relations with the Republic of Ireland
• The Civil Rights Movement

Escalation of Political and Civil Unrest

• Violence in 1969: Causes, Events and Responses
• The Emergence of Paramilitary Organisations
• Internment: Reasons, Actions and Effects
• Direct Rule, 1972

The Search for a Solution

• Power-Sharing, 1973-1974
• Hunger Strikes 1980-1981
• Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985

The Cold War 1945–1991

Relations between the Superpowers in Europe

• Beginning of the Cold War in Europe, 1945–48
• Early Confrontation in Europe
• Challenges to USSR’s Control in Eastern Europe (Hungary 1956, Berlin Wall, 1961, The Prague Spring 1968)
• Gorbachev, Reagan and the End of the Cold War, 1985-1991

Relations between the Superpowers outside Europe

• The Korean War, 1950-53
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
• The Vietnam War