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| + | ==Understanding the Modern World== | ||
| + | ===America, 1840-1895: Expansion and Consolidation=== | ||
| + | ====Expansion: Opportunities and Challenges==== | ||
| + | =====[[North America]]===== | ||
| + | *[[Geography]] | ||
| + | *[[Great American Desert]] | ||
| + | *[[Manifest Destiny]] | ||
| + | ===[[Going West]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Early American Settlers]] | ||
| + | *[[Mormons]] | ||
| + | **[[The Mountain Meadows Massacre]] | ||
| + | *[[Journey]] | ||
| + | *[[Pioneer Migrant Farmers]] | ||
| + | *[[Miners]] | ||
| + | ===[[Plains Indians]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Culture and Way of Life]] | ||
| + | *[[Early Government Policy]] | ||
| + | *[[Permanent Indian Frontier]] | ||
| + | *[[Relationship with the Plains Indians]] | ||
| + | ===[[Conflict across America]]=== | ||
| + | ====[[Conflict on the Plains]]==== | ||
| + | *[[Fort Laramie Treaty]] | ||
| + | *[[Policy of Concentration]] | ||
| + | *[[The Indian Wars]] | ||
| + | **[[Causes]] | ||
| + | **[[Consequences]] | ||
| + | *[[Sand Creek Massacre]] | ||
| + | *[[Fetterman’s Trap]] | ||
| + | ===[[American Civil War]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Differences between North and South]] | ||
| + | *[[Slavery]] | ||
| + | *[[Westwards Expansion]] | ||
| + | *[[Free States Abolitionism]] | ||
| + | *[[Missouri Compromise]] | ||
| + | *[[John Brown]] | ||
| + | *[[Abraham Lincoln]] | ||
| + | *[[Jefferson Davis]] | ||
| + | *[[Social impact of the Civil War]] | ||
| + | *[[Economic impact of the Civil War]] | ||
| + | ===[[Aftermath of the Civil War]]=== | ||
| + | *[[13th Amendment]] | ||
| + | *[[Civil Rights Act]] | ||
| + | *[[Rebuilding the South]] | ||
| + | *[[1866-1877]] | ||
| + | *[[Carpetbaggers]] | ||
| + | *[[Federal and State Powers]] | ||
| + | ===[[Settlement of the West]]=== | ||
| + | *[[The Homesteaders]] | ||
| + | *[[Why West?]] | ||
| + | *[[Government Actions and Laws]] | ||
| + | *[[Land and Railroads]] | ||
| + | *[[Farming Problems]] | ||
| + | **[[Farming Solutions]] | ||
| + | ===[[The Resolution of the ‘Indian Problem’]]=== | ||
| + | *[[The Small Reservations Policy]] | ||
| + | *[[Attitudes towards Native Americans]] | ||
| + | *[[Battle of the Little Big Horn]] | ||
| + | *[[The Dawes Act]] | ||
| + | *[[Battle of Wounded Knee]] | ||
| + | *[[The Closing of the Frontier]] | ||
| + | **[[The Impact on Native Americans]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship== | ||
| + | ====Germany and the Growth of Democracy==== | ||
| + | =====[[Ruling Germany]]===== | ||
| + | *[[Germany]] | ||
| + | *[[Kaiser Wilhelm II]] | ||
| + | *[[Difficulties in Ruling Germany]] | ||
| + | *[[Rise of Parliamentary Government]] | ||
| + | *[[Influence of Prussian Militarism]] | ||
| + | *[[Industrialisation in Germany]] | ||
| + | *[[Social Reform]] | ||
| + | **[[The Growth of Socialism]] | ||
| + | *[[Navy Laws]] | ||
| + | ===[[WWI]]=== | ||
| + | *[[War Weariness]] | ||
| + | *[[Economic Problems caused by WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[Defeat in WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[The End of German Monarchy]] | ||
| + | *[[The Crisis of 1923]] | ||
| + | **[[Reparations]] | ||
| + | **[[The Occupation of the Ruhr]] | ||
| + | **[[Hyperinflation]] | ||
| + | ===[[Weimar Democracy]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Political Change and Unrest in Germany, 1919-1923]] | ||
| + | **[[Spartacists]] | ||
| + | **[[Kapp Putsch]] | ||
| + | **[[Munich Putsch]] | ||
| + | *[[Economic Recovery and Developments under Stresemann]] | ||
| + | *[[Gustav Stresemann]] | ||
| + | **[[Reichsmark]] | ||
| + | **[[Dawes Plan]] | ||
| + | **[[Young Plan]] | ||
| + | **[[International Impact]] | ||
| + | *[[Weimar Culture]] | ||
| + | ===[[Germany and the Depression]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Great Depression]] | ||
| + | *[[Adolf Hitler]] | ||
| + | *[[National Socialism]] | ||
| + | *[[Rise of Extremism in Germany]] | ||
| + | **[[Right-Wing Extremism]] | ||
| + | **[[Rise of the National Socialists]] | ||
| + | ***[[Role of the SA]] | ||
| + | *[[Hitler’s Appeal to the Masses]] | ||
| + | ===[[The Failure of Weimar Democracy]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Election Results]] | ||
| + | *[[Franz von Papen]] | ||
| + | *[[President Hindenburg]] | ||
| + | *[[Hitler becomes Chancellor]] | ||
| + | ===[[Establishing Hitler’s Dictatorship]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Reichstag Fire]] | ||
| + | *[[Enabling Act]] | ||
| + | *[[Elimination of Political Opposition]] | ||
| + | *[[Trade Unions in Germany]] | ||
| + | *[[Ernst Rohm]] | ||
| + | *[[Night of the Long Knives]] | ||
| + | *[[Führer]] | ||
| + | ===The Experiences of Germans under the Nazis=== | ||
| + | ====[[Economic Changes under the Nazis]]==== | ||
| + | *[[Economic Benefits]] | ||
| + | *[[Economic Drawbacks]] | ||
| + | *[[Employment under the Nazis]] | ||
| + | **[[Public Works Programmes]] | ||
| + | *[[Rearmament]] | ||
| + | *[[Self-Sufficiency]] | ||
| + | *[[Economy during the War]] | ||
| + | ===[[The Impact of War on the German People]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Bombing]] | ||
| + | *[[Rationing]] | ||
| + | *[[Labour Shortages]] | ||
| + | *[[Refugees]] | ||
| + | ===[[Social Policy under the Nazis]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Joseph Goebbels]] | ||
| + | *[[Nazi Propaganda]] | ||
| + | *[[Censorship under the Nazis]] | ||
| + | *[[Nazi Culture]] | ||
| + | *[[Repression and the Police State]] | ||
| + | *[[Heinrich Himmler]] | ||
| + | *[[SS]] | ||
| + | *[[Gestapo]] | ||
| + | ===[[Opposition to the Nazis]]=== | ||
| + | *[[White Rose Group]] | ||
| + | *[[Swing Youth]] | ||
| + | *[[Edelweiss Pirates]] | ||
| + | *[[Stauffenberg Plot]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and Communism== | ||
| + | ===The End of Tsardom=== | ||
| + | ====[[Russian Economy and Society]]==== | ||
| + | *[[Russia]] | ||
| + | *[[Tsardom]] | ||
| + | *[[Absolutism]] | ||
| + | *[[Russian Industrialisation]] | ||
| + | *[[Living and Working in Russia]] | ||
| + | ===[[Nicholas II]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Autocracy in Russia]] | ||
| + | *[[Nicholas’ Court]] | ||
| + | ===[[Revolutionary Tensions in Russia]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Revolution]] | ||
| + | *[[Growth of Revolutionary Tensions]] | ||
| + | *[[1905 Russian Revolution]] | ||
| + | *[[October Manifesto]] | ||
| + | *[[Attempts to reform Russia]] | ||
| + | *[[Dumas]] | ||
| + | *[[Pyotr Stolypin]] | ||
| + | **[[Stolypin’s Policies]] | ||
| + | ===[[WWI]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Impact of WWI on Tsarist Government]] | ||
| + | *[[Social Effects of WWI in Russia]] | ||
| + | *[[Economic Effects of WWI in Russia]] | ||
| + | *[[Unpopularity of the Romanovs]] | ||
| + | **[[Rasputin]] | ||
| + | *[[Abdication of Nicholas I]] | ||
| + | ===Lenin’s New Society=== | ||
| + | ====[[The Provisional Government]]==== | ||
| + | *[[Communism]] | ||
| + | **[[Karl Marx]] | ||
| + | *[[Bolshevism]] | ||
| + | *[[Failure to deal with Russia’s problems]] | ||
| + | **[[Social]] | ||
| + | **[[Economic]] | ||
| + | **[[Military]] | ||
| + | *[[Leon Trotsky]] | ||
| + | *[[Vladimir Lenin]] | ||
| + | *[[Rise of the Bolsheviks]] | ||
| + | *[[October Revolution]] | ||
| + | ===[[Lenin’s Dictatorship]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Dictatorship]] | ||
| + | *[[USSR]] | ||
| + | *[[End of WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[Cheka]] | ||
| + | *[[Red Army]] | ||
| + | *[[Russian Civil War]] | ||
| + | **[[Causes]] | ||
| + | **[[Events]] | ||
| + | **[[Consequences]] | ||
| + | *[[Bolshevik Propaganda]] | ||
| + | ===[[Social and Economic Developments under Bolshevism]]=== | ||
| + | *[[War Communism]] | ||
| + | *[[Kronstadt Rising]] | ||
| + | *[[New Economic Policy]] | ||
| + | *[[Achievements of Lenin and Trostsky]] | ||
| + | ===Stalin’s USSR=== | ||
| + | ====[[Joseph Stalin]]==== | ||
| + | *[[Lenin’s Succession]] | ||
| + | *[[Communist Control of Government]] | ||
| + | *[[Red Terror]] | ||
| + | *[[The Purges]] | ||
| + | *[[Stalin’s Army]] | ||
| + | *[[Stalin’s Secret Police]] | ||
| + | *[[Labour Camps under Stalin]] | ||
| + | *[[Censorship under Stalin]] | ||
| + | *[[Stalin’s Cult of Personality]] | ||
| + | *[[Propaganda under Stalin]] | ||
| + | ===[[Stalin’s Modernisation of the USSR]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Collectivisation]] | ||
| + | *[[Five Year Plans]] | ||
| + | *[[Kulaks]] | ||
| + | **[[Social and Economic Consequences for Kulaks]] | ||
| + | *[[Society under Stalin]] | ||
| + | **[[City Dwellers under Stalin]] | ||
| + | **[[Women under Stalin]] | ||
| + | **[[Workers under Stalin]] | ||
| + | *[[Results of Modernisation]] | ||
| + | ===[[Impact of WWII on USSR]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Stalin’s Wartime Leadership]] | ||
| + | *[[Great Patriotic War]] | ||
| + | *[[Problems caused by WWII in Russia]] | ||
| + | **[[Economic Effects of WWII in Russia]] | ||
| + | **[[Social Effects of WWII in Russia]] | ||
| + | **[[Political Effects of WWII in Russia]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==America,1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality== | ||
| + | ===American People and ‘The Boom’=== | ||
| + | ====[[The ‘Boom’]]==== | ||
| + | *[[Stock Market]] | ||
| + | **[[Wall Street]] | ||
| + | *[[Benefits of the ‘Boom’]] | ||
| + | *[[Advertising and Consumer Society in 1920s America]] | ||
| + | *[[Hire Purchase]] | ||
| + | *[[Mass Production]] | ||
| + | **[[Ford and the Motor Industry]] | ||
| + | *[[Wealth Inequality]] | ||
| + | **[[Wealth Inequality in 1920s America]] | ||
| + | *[[Republican Government Policies, 1920s]] | ||
| + | **[[Republican Party]] | ||
| + | *[[Stock Market Boom]] | ||
| + | ===[[Social and Cultural Developments in 1920s America]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Entertainment in 1920s America]] | ||
| + | **[[Cinema]] | ||
| + | **[[Jazz]] | ||
| + | *[[Women in 1920s American Society]] | ||
| + | **[[Flappers]] | ||
| + | *[[Organised Crime]] | ||
| + | *[[Prohibition]] | ||
| + | **[[Impact of Prohibition on Society]] | ||
| + | *[[Racism in 1920s America]] | ||
| + | **[[Causes of Racism in 1920s America]] | ||
| + | **[[Klu Klux Klan (KKK)]] | ||
| + | *[[Immigrants in 1920s America]] | ||
| + | **[[Impacts of Immigrants on American Society]] | ||
| + | *[[Red Scare]] | ||
| + | **[[Sacco and Vanzetti Case]] | ||
| + | ===Bust - American’s Experiences of the Depression and New Deal=== | ||
| + | ====[[American Society during the Great Depression]]==== | ||
| + | *[[Unemployment during the Great Depression]] | ||
| + | *[[Farming during the Great Depression]] | ||
| + | *[[Businessmen during the Great Depression]] | ||
| + | *[[Herbert Hoover]] | ||
| + | **[[Hoover’s Responses]] | ||
| + | **[[Hoover’s Unpopularity]] | ||
| + | *[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] | ||
| + | **[[Roosevelt’s Election]] | ||
| + | *[[New Deal]] | ||
| + | **[[Effects of the New Deal on Society]] | ||
| + | **[[Successes of the New Deal]] | ||
| + | **[[Limitations of the New Deal]] | ||
| + | **[[Opposition to the New Deal from Supreme Court]] | ||
| + | ***[[Supreme Court]] | ||
| + | *[[Republicans]] | ||
| + | **[[Radical Politicians]] | ||
| + | *[[Roosevelt as President]] | ||
| + | *[[Pop Culture in Pre-War America]] | ||
| + | ===[[Impact of WWII]]=== | ||
| + | *[[WWII]] | ||
| + | *[[Impacts of WWII on America]] | ||
| + | *[[America’s Economic Recovery]] | ||
| + | *[[Lend Lease]] | ||
| + | *[[Exports in Post-War America]] | ||
| + | *[[Social Developments in Post-War America]] | ||
| + | **[[Experiences of African-Americans in Post-War America]] | ||
| + | **[[Experiences of Women in Post-War America]] | ||
| + | ===Post-War America=== | ||
| + | ====[[Post-War American Society and Economy]]==== | ||
| + | *[[Consumerism]] | ||
| + | *[[Causes of Prosperity in Post-War America]] | ||
| + | *[[The American Dream]] | ||
| + | *[[McCarthyism]] | ||
| + | *[[Popular Culture in Post-War America]] | ||
| + | **[[Rock and Roll Music]] | ||
| + | **[[Television]] | ||
| + | ===[[Civil Rights Movement]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Segregation Laws]] | ||
| + | *[[Martin Luther King]] | ||
| + | *[[Peaceful Protest]] | ||
| + | *[[Malcolm X]] | ||
| + | *[[Black Power Movement]] | ||
| + | *[[Civil Rights Act 1964]] | ||
| + | *[[Civil Rights Act 1968]] | ||
| + | ===[[America and the ‘Great Society’]]=== | ||
| + | *[[John F. Kennedy]] | ||
| + | **[[Kennedy’s Social Policies]] | ||
| + | *[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] | ||
| + | **[[Johnson’s Social Policies]] | ||
| + | *[[Feminism in 1960s and ‘70s America]] | ||
| + | **[[Fight for Equal Pay in 1960s and ‘70s America]] | ||
| + | **[[National Organisation for Women]] | ||
| + | **[[Roe v Wade (1973)]] | ||
| + | **[[Supreme Court Ruling on Equal Rights (1972)]] | ||
| + | **[[Opposition to Equal Rights Amendment]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Conflict and Tension: the First World War, 1894-1918== | ||
| + | ===The Causes of the First World War=== | ||
| + | ====[[The Alliance System]]==== | ||
| + | *[[WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[The Triple Alliance]] | ||
| + | **[[Germany]] | ||
| + | **[[Austria-Hungary]] | ||
| + | **[[Italy]] | ||
| + | *[[Franco-Russian Alliance]] | ||
| + | **[[France]] | ||
| + | **[[Russia]] | ||
| + | *[[Relations between the ‘Entente’ powers]] | ||
| + | **[[Entente]] | ||
| + | *[[Moroccan Crises (1905 and 1911)]] | ||
| + | **[[Moroccan Crises Effect on International Relations]] | ||
| + | *[[Crisis in the Balkans (1908-1909)]] | ||
| + | **[[Balkan Crisis Effect on International Relations]] | ||
| + | ===[[Anglo-German Rivalry]==== | ||
| + | **[[Great Britian]] | ||
| + | *[[Splendid Isolation]] | ||
| + | **[[Challenges to Splendid Isolation]] | ||
| + | *[[Kaiser Wilhelm’s Foreign Policy]] | ||
| + | **[[Weltpolitik]] | ||
| + | *[[Colonial Tensions between Britain and Germany]] | ||
| + | *[[European Rearmament pre-WWI]] | ||
| + | **[[Anglo-German Naval Race]] | ||
| + | ===[[Outbreak of WWI]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Slav Nationalism]] | ||
| + | *[[Serbia]] | ||
| + | **[[Relations between Serbia and Austria-Hungary]] | ||
| + | *[[Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] | ||
| + | **[[The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand]] | ||
| + | *[[July Crisis]] | ||
| + | *[[Schlieffen Plan]] | ||
| + | *[[Why WWI broke out]] | ||
| + | *[[How WWI went from Tension to War]] | ||
| + | ===WWI: Stalemate=== | ||
| + | ====[[Schlieffen Plan]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Reasons for the Schlieffen Plan]] | ||
| + | *[[Failure of the Schlieffen Plan]] | ||
| + | **[[Battle of the Marne]] | ||
| + | ===[[The Western Front]]=== | ||
| + | *[[WWI Military Tactics and Technology]] | ||
| + | **[[Trench Warfare]] | ||
| + | *[[War of Attrition]] | ||
| + | *[[Key Battle of WWI]] | ||
| + | **[Verdun] | ||
| + | **[[The Somme] | ||
| + | **[[Passchendaele]] | ||
| + | ===[[WWI on a Wider Scale]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Other Fronts to WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[Gallipoli]] | ||
| + | *[[WWI at Sea]] | ||
| + | **[[Jutland]] | ||
| + | **[[U-Boat Campaign]] | ||
| + | ===Ending WWI=== | ||
| + | *[[Changes in the Allied Forces during WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[October Revolution]] | ||
| + | **[[Withdrawal of Russia from WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[Entry of the USA into WWI]] | ||
| + | ===[[Military Developments in 1918]]==== | ||
| + | *[[How Military Developments helped Defeat Germany in 1918]] | ||
| + | *[[Evolution of Military Tactics and Technology through WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[Ludendorff]] | ||
| + | *[[German Spring Offensive]] | ||
| + | *[[Allied Advance during The Hundred Days]] | ||
| + | ===[[Germany Surrenders]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Impact of the Blockade]] | ||
| + | *[[Abdication of the Kaiser]] | ||
| + | **[[Kaiser Wilhelm II]] | ||
| + | *[[Armistice]] | ||
| + | *[[Field Marshall Douglas Haig]] | ||
| + | *[[Ferdinand Foch]] | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==Conflict and Tension: The Inter-War Years, 1918-1939== | ||
| + | ===Peacemaking=== | ||
| + | ====[[Armistice]]==== | ||
| + | *[[Aims of the Peacemakers]] | ||
| + | *[[Woodrow Wilson]] | ||
| + | **[[Fourteen Points]] | ||
| + | *[[Georges Clemenceau]] | ||
| + | *[[David Lloyd George]] | ||
| + | *[[Success of the Peacemakers]] | ||
| + | ===[[Treaty of Versailles]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Diktat]] | ||
| + | *[[Changes in Territory post-WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[Military Restrictions post-WWI]] | ||
| + | *[[War Guilt]] | ||
| + | *[[Reparations]] | ||
| + | **[[WWI Reparations]] | ||
| + | ===The League of Nations=== | ||
| + | *[[League of Nations]] | ||
| + | **[[Formation of the League of Nations]] | ||
| + | **[[Organisation of the League of Nations]] | ||
| + | **[[Membership of the League of Nations]] | ||
| + | **[[Powers of the League of Nations]] | ||
| + | **[[Agencies of the League of Nations]] | ||
| + | **[[Contributions of the League of Nations to Peace in the 1920s]] | ||
| + | ***[[Aaland Islands]] | ||
| + | ***[[Upper Silesia]] | ||
| + | ***[[Vilna]] | ||
| + | ***[[Corfu]] | ||
| + | ***[[Bulgaria]] | ||
| + | *[[Locarno Treaties]] | ||
| + | *[[Kellogg-Briand Pact]] | ||
| + | ===[[The Collapse of the League of Nations]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Great Depression]] | ||
| + | **[[Effects of the Great Depression on the League of Nations]] | ||
| + | *[[Manchurian Crisis]] | ||
| + | **[[Manchuria]] | ||
| + | *[[Abyssinian Crisis]] | ||
| + | **[[Abyssinia]] | ||
| + | *[[Failure of the League of Nations to stop WWII]]] | ||
| + | ===Origins and Outbreak of the Second World War=== | ||
| + | ====[[Development of Tension pre-WWII]] | ||
| + | *[[WWII]] | ||
| + | *[[Adolf Hitler]] | ||
| + | **[[Hitler’s Aims]] | ||
| + | **[[Allied Reaction to Hitler]] | ||
| + | *[[Dolfuss Affair]] | ||
| + | *[[Saar]] | ||
| + | *[[German Rearmament]] | ||
| + | **[[German Conscription pre-WWII]] | ||
| + | *[[Stresa Front]] | ||
| + | *[[Anglo-German Naval Agreement]] | ||
| + | ===[[Escalation of Tension Pre-WWII]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Remilitarisation of the Rhineland]] | ||
| + | *[[Benito Mussolini]] | ||
| + | *[[Axis Forces]] | ||
| + | *[[Anti-Comintern Pact]] | ||
| + | *[[Anschluss]] | ||
| + | *[[Appeasement]] | ||
| + | *[[Sudetenland Crisis]] | ||
| + | *[[End of Appeasement]] | ||
| + | ===[[Outbreak of War]]=== | ||
| + | *[[Occupation of Czechoslovakia]] | ||
| + | **[[Czechoslovakia]] | ||
| + | *[[Role of the USSR in WWII]] | ||
| + | **[[USSR]] | ||
| + | **[[Nazi-Soviet Pact]] | ||
| + | *[[Invasion of Poland]] | ||
| + | *[[Outbreak of WWII]] | ||
| + | *[[September 1939]] | ||
| + | *[[What caused WWII to break out?]] | ||
| + | **[[Adolf Hitler]] | ||
| + | **[[Joseph Stalin]] | ||
| + | **[[Neville Chamberlain]] | ||
Revision as of 14:42, 26 July 2019
Key Stage Wiki is looking for contributors to accelerate the process of creating the History curriculum pages.
Contents
- 1 Understanding the Modern World
- 2 Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship
- 2.1 Germany and the Growth of Democracy
- 2.2 WWI
- 2.3 Weimar Democracy
- 2.4 Germany and the Depression
- 2.5 The Failure of Weimar Democracy
- 2.6 Establishing Hitler’s Dictatorship
- 2.7 The Experiences of Germans under the Nazis
- 2.8 The Impact of War on the German People
- 2.9 Social Policy under the Nazis
- 2.10 Opposition to the Nazis
- 3 Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and Communism
- 4 America,1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality
- 5 Conflict and Tension: the First World War, 1894-1918
- 6 Conflict and Tension: The Inter-War Years, 1918-1939
Understanding the Modern World
America, 1840-1895: Expansion and Consolidation
Expansion: Opportunities and Challenges
North America
Going West
Plains Indians
- Culture and Way of Life
- Early Government Policy
- Permanent Indian Frontier
- Relationship with the Plains Indians
Conflict across America
Conflict on the Plains
American Civil War
- Differences between North and South
- Slavery
- Westwards Expansion
- Free States Abolitionism
- Missouri Compromise
- John Brown
- Abraham Lincoln
- Jefferson Davis
- Social impact of the Civil War
- Economic impact of the Civil War
Aftermath of the Civil War
- 13th Amendment
- Civil Rights Act
- Rebuilding the South
- 1866-1877
- Carpetbaggers
- Federal and State Powers
Settlement of the West
The Resolution of the ‘Indian Problem’
- The Small Reservations Policy
- Attitudes towards Native Americans
- Battle of the Little Big Horn
- The Dawes Act
- Battle of Wounded Knee
- The Closing of the Frontier
Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship
Germany and the Growth of Democracy
Ruling Germany
- Germany
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Difficulties in Ruling Germany
- Rise of Parliamentary Government
- Influence of Prussian Militarism
- Industrialisation in Germany
- Social Reform
- Navy Laws
WWI
- War Weariness
- Economic Problems caused by WWI
- Defeat in WWI
- The End of German Monarchy
- The Crisis of 1923
Weimar Democracy
- Political Change and Unrest in Germany, 1919-1923
- Economic Recovery and Developments under Stresemann
- Gustav Stresemann
- Weimar Culture
Germany and the Depression
- Great Depression
- Adolf Hitler
- National Socialism
- Rise of Extremism in Germany
- Hitler’s Appeal to the Masses
The Failure of Weimar Democracy
Establishing Hitler’s Dictatorship
- Reichstag Fire
- Enabling Act
- Elimination of Political Opposition
- Trade Unions in Germany
- Ernst Rohm
- Night of the Long Knives
- Führer
The Experiences of Germans under the Nazis
Economic Changes under the Nazis
- Economic Benefits
- Economic Drawbacks
- Employment under the Nazis
- Rearmament
- Self-Sufficiency
- Economy during the War
The Impact of War on the German People
Social Policy under the Nazis
- Joseph Goebbels
- Nazi Propaganda
- Censorship under the Nazis
- Nazi Culture
- Repression and the Police State
- Heinrich Himmler
- SS
- Gestapo
Opposition to the Nazis
Russia, 1894-1945: Tsardom and Communism
The End of Tsardom
Russian Economy and Society
Nicholas II
Revolutionary Tensions in Russia
- Revolution
- Growth of Revolutionary Tensions
- 1905 Russian Revolution
- October Manifesto
- Attempts to reform Russia
- Dumas
- Pyotr Stolypin
WWI
- Impact of WWI on Tsarist Government
- Social Effects of WWI in Russia
- Economic Effects of WWI in Russia
- Unpopularity of the Romanovs
- Abdication of Nicholas I
Lenin’s New Society
The Provisional Government
- Communism
- Bolshevism
- Failure to deal with Russia’s problems
- Leon Trotsky
- Vladimir Lenin
- Rise of the Bolsheviks
- October Revolution
Lenin’s Dictatorship
Social and Economic Developments under Bolshevism
Stalin’s USSR
Joseph Stalin
- Lenin’s Succession
- Communist Control of Government
- Red Terror
- The Purges
- Stalin’s Army
- Stalin’s Secret Police
- Labour Camps under Stalin
- Censorship under Stalin
- Stalin’s Cult of Personality
- Propaganda under Stalin
Stalin’s Modernisation of the USSR
Impact of WWII on USSR
America,1920-1973: Opportunity and Inequality
American People and ‘The Boom’
The ‘Boom’
- Stock Market
- Benefits of the ‘Boom’
- Advertising and Consumer Society in 1920s America
- Hire Purchase
- Mass Production
- Wealth Inequality
- Republican Government Policies, 1920s
- Stock Market Boom
Social and Cultural Developments in 1920s America
- Entertainment in 1920s America
- Women in 1920s American Society
- Organised Crime
- Prohibition
- Racism in 1920s America
- Immigrants in 1920s America
- Red Scare
Bust - American’s Experiences of the Depression and New Deal
American Society during the Great Depression
- Unemployment during the Great Depression
- Farming during the Great Depression
- Businessmen during the Great Depression
- Herbert Hoover
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- New Deal
- Republicans
- Roosevelt as President
- Pop Culture in Pre-War America
Impact of WWII
- WWII
- Impacts of WWII on America
- America’s Economic Recovery
- Lend Lease
- Exports in Post-War America
- Social Developments in Post-War America
Post-War America
Post-War American Society and Economy
- Consumerism
- Causes of Prosperity in Post-War America
- The American Dream
- McCarthyism
- Popular Culture in Post-War America
Civil Rights Movement
- Segregation Laws
- Martin Luther King
- Peaceful Protest
- Malcolm X
- Black Power Movement
- Civil Rights Act 1964
- Civil Rights Act 1968
America and the ‘Great Society’
Conflict and Tension: the First World War, 1894-1918
The Causes of the First World War
The Alliance System
- WWI
- The Triple Alliance
- Franco-Russian Alliance
- Relations between the ‘Entente’ powers
- Moroccan Crises (1905 and 1911)
- Crisis in the Balkans (1908-1909)
[[Anglo-German Rivalry]=
- Splendid Isolation
- Kaiser Wilhelm’s Foreign Policy
- Colonial Tensions between Britain and Germany
- European Rearmament pre-WWI
Outbreak of WWI
- Slav Nationalism
- Serbia
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- July Crisis
- Schlieffen Plan
- Why WWI broke out
- How WWI went from Tension to War
WWI: Stalemate
=Schlieffen Plan
The Western Front
- WWI Military Tactics and Technology
- War of Attrition
- Key Battle of WWI
- [Verdun]
- [[The Somme]
- Passchendaele
WWI on a Wider Scale
Ending WWI
Military Developments in 1918=
- How Military Developments helped Defeat Germany in 1918
- Evolution of Military Tactics and Technology through WWI
- Ludendorff
- German Spring Offensive
- Allied Advance during The Hundred Days
Germany Surrenders
- Impact of the Blockade
- Abdication of the Kaiser
- Armistice
- Field Marshall Douglas Haig
- Ferdinand Foch
Conflict and Tension: The Inter-War Years, 1918-1939
Peacemaking
Armistice
- Aims of the Peacemakers
- Woodrow Wilson
- Georges Clemenceau
- David Lloyd George
- Success of the Peacemakers
Treaty of Versailles
The League of Nations
The Collapse of the League of Nations
Origins and Outbreak of the Second World War
====Development of Tension pre-WWII
Escalation of Tension Pre-WWII
- Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
- Benito Mussolini
- Axis Forces
- Anti-Comintern Pact
- Anschluss
- Appeasement
- Sudetenland Crisis
- End of Appeasement