AQA GCSE Modern World History Revision Guide

Unit 1: International relations: conflict and peace in the 20th century Chapter 1: The origins of the First World War 1.1: Why were there two armed camps in Europe in 1914? 1.2: Why did war break out in 1914? Chapter 2: Peacemaking 1918-1919 and the League of Nations 2.1 How did the Treaty of Versailles establish peace? 2.2 Why did the League of Nations fail in its aim to keep peace? Chapter 3: Hitler's foreign policy and the origins of the Second World War 3.1: How did Hitler challenge and exploit the Treaty of Versailles 1933-March 1938? 3.2: Why did Chamberlain's policy of appeasement fail to prevent the outbreak of war in 1939? Chapter 4: The origins of the Cold War 1945-1955 4.1: Why did the USA and USSR become rivals in the years 1945-1949? 4.2: How did the Cold War develop in the years 1949-1955? Chapter 5: Crises of the Cold War 1955-1970 5.1: How peaceful was Peaceful Co-existence? 5.2: How close to war was the world in the 1960s? Chapter 6: Failure of Detente and the collapse of communism 1970-1991 6.1: Why did Detente collapse in the 1970s and 1980s? 6.2: Why did communism collapse in Central and Eastern Europe? Unit 2: Twentieth-Century Depth Studies Chapter 7: From Tsardom to Communism: Russia, 1914-1924 7.1: Why did the rule of the Tsar collapse in February/March 1917? 7.2: Why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power in October/November 1917? 7.3: How successful was Lenin in creating a new society in Russia? Chapter 8: Weimar Germany, 1919-1929 8.1: How far do the early problems of the Weimar Republic suggest that it was doomed from the start? 8.2: How far did the Weimar Republic recover under Stresemann? 8.3: How far did the Nazi Party develop its ideas and organisation up to 1929? Chapter 9: The Roaring 20s: USA, 1918-1929 9.1: How and why did the USA achieve prosperity in the 1920s? 9.2: How far was the USA a divided society in the 1920s? 9.3: Why did the US Stock Exchange collapse in 1929? Chapter 10: Stalin's Dictatorship: USSR, 1924-1941 10.1: To what extent had Stalin become a personal dictator in Communist Russia by the end of the 1920s? 10.2: How did Stalin reinforce his dictatorship in the 1930s? 10.3: To what extent did Stalin make the USSR a great economic power? Chapter 11: Hitler's Germany, 1929-1939 11.1: How and why was Hitler able to become Chancellor in January 1933? 11.2: How did Hitler change Germany from a democracy to a Nazi dictatorship, 1933-1934, and then reinforce this? 11.3: To what extent did Germans benefit from Nazi rule in the 1930s? Chapter 12: Depression and the New Deal: The USA, 1929-1941 12.1: How serious were the effects of the Depression on the American people? 12.2: How did Roosevelt deal with the Depression? 12.3 How far was the New Deal successful in ending the Depression in the USA? Chapter 13: Race relations in the USA 1955-1968 13.1: To what extent did racial inequality exist in the USA in the 1950s? 13.2: How effective were the methods used by members of the Civil Rights Movement between 1961 and 1968? 13.3: How important was Martin Luther King in the fight for Civil Rights in the USA? Chapter 14: The USA and Vietnam: Failure Abroad and at Home, 1964-1975 14.1: How effective were guerrilla tactics during the Vietnam War? 14.2: How did the coverage of the Vietnam War in the USA lead to demands for peace? 14.3: Why were the US actions to end the Vietnam War unsuccessful?