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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]]