Cambridge IGCSE History
BCore content Option B: The twentieth century: international relations since 1919
Overview
Candidates study EITHER Option A OR Option B of the Core content (Paper 1 Section A and Paper 2).
In this topic
- B1 Was the Treaty of Versailles fair?
- B2 To what extent was the League of Nations a success?
- B3 How far was Hitler's foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939?
- B4 Who was to blame for the Cold War?
- B5 How effectively did the United States contain the spread of communism?
- B6 How secure was the USSR's control over Eastern Europe, 1948-c.1989?
Lessons
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The peacemakers of 1919 and their aims
25 min
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The Treaty of Versailles: terms and impact on Germany
30 min
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The League in the 1920s: peacekeeping and humanitarian work
25 min
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The League in the 1930s: Depression, Manchuria and Abyssinia
30 min
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The League of Nations: aims, structure and membership
25 min
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Anschluss, Munich and appeasement, 1938
30 min
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Hitler's aims and early foreign policy, 1933-1936
30 min
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The outbreak of war in 1939: who was to blame?
30 min
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Germany, the Berlin Blockade and who was to blame for the Cold War
30 min
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Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe and the American response, 1945-1948
30 min
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The breakdown of the wartime alliance, 1945-1946
30 min
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American involvement in Vietnam, 1955-1975
35 min
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The United States and Cuba, 1959-1962
30 min
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The United States and Korea, 1950-1953
30 min
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Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968
30 min
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Solidarity and the collapse of Soviet control, 1980-1991
35 min
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The Berlin Wall, 1961
25 min
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