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ZIMSEC O-Level History

12World Wars and the Inter-War Period

World Wars and the Inter-War Period in ZIMSEC O-Level History: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Form 4. The topic list prints 'World Wars'; the scope and sequence 'World Wars and the Inter-war Period'.

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Lessons

  • Colonial rivalries and the Balkans, 1890-1914

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  • The alliance system and the arms race, 1890-1914

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  • The First World War, 1914-1918: course and results

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  • The July Crisis and the outbreak of war, 1914

    35 min

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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

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  • The League in the 1920s: peacekeeping and humanitarian work

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  • The League in the 1930s: Depression, Manchuria and Abyssinia

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  • The League of Nations: aims, structure and membership

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  • Anschluss, Munich and appeasement, 1938

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  • Fascism, Nazism and Mussolini's Italy

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  • Hitler's aims and early foreign policy, 1933-1936

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  • Nazi consolidation and control, 1933-1945

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  • The rise of the Nazis, 1919-1933

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  • The outbreak of war in 1939: who was to blame?

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  • The Second World War, 1939-1945: course and results

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  • Germany, the Berlin Blockade and who was to blame for the Cold War

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  • Manifestations and impact of the Cold War

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  • Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe and the American response, 1945-1948

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  • The breakdown of the wartime alliance, 1945-1946

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World Wars and the Inter-War Period: sample question

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Which Western action in June 1948 most directly led Stalin to begin the blockade?

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