GCSE Modern World History Dynamic Learning 1 - International Relations 1900-2005
Published: 2009
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This book is part of a book series called History in Focus E-Learning .
This book is aimed at children in secondary school.
This book was published 2009 by Hodder Education .
Ben Walsh has written many best selling books for Modern World History.
This book has the following chapters: Europe in 1914 1 What did Europe look like in 1914? 2 How Europe became an armed camp 3 Make your own summary presentation 4 Balance of power Teacher's notes The road to war 1 The Alliances and the Balance of Power 2 What if . ? 3 The crisis staircase 4 The slide to war Teacher's notes The Paris Peace Conference 1 The mood in 1919 2 What did the leaders of the Great Powers want? 3 Who said what about whom? 4 The mood in 1919 5 Wilson's aims in 1919 Teacher's notes The Treaty of Versailles 1 The terms of the Treaty 2 What did the Big Three think of the Treaty? 3 How did the Germans react to the Treaty? 4 Why did the Big Three not get what they wanted? 5 Why did Germans react so angrily to the Treaty? Teacher's notes Verdicts on the Treaty of Versailles 1 Views on the Treaty: How the cartoonists saw it 2 Views on the Treaty: Then and now 3 How has History judged the Treaty? 4 Can you balance the Versailles story? 5 Were the peacemakers all very stupid men? Teacher's notes Aims and Methods of the League 1 Video: the aims and methods of the UN 2 Researching the aims and methods of the League of Nations 3 Make your own film about the League 4 What are the similarities between the League and the UN? Teacher's notes Organisation and structure of the League 1 What was going through the minds of the leaders after World War 1? 2 The beginnings of the League 3 Comparing your League with the League of the 1920s 4 What were the strengths and weaknesses of the League 5 Moral persuasion Teacher's notes America and the League of Nations 1 The American decision making process 2 Could Wilson convince the Senate to join the League? 3 What were Harding's arguments for isolationism and normalcy? 4 Source analysis: what do contemporary cartoons reveal about America and the League? Teacher's notes The Corfu Incident 1 The League's work in the 1920s: a map of Europe 2 Tell the story of the League in Corfu 3 What happened next? Hypothesising what will happen to the League 4 Why did the League fail in Corfu? Teacher's notes The Depression 1 The impact of the financial crisis in today's world 2 What can we learn from today's financial crisis about the impact of the 1929 crash? 3 The Battle of Cable Street and the rise of nationalism and protectionism 4 Make your own radio broadcast 5 How would you improve the student's book Teacher's notes The Manchurian crisis 1 What happened in Manchuria? 2 Investigate David Low's cartoon and bring it to life 3 Improve David Low's cartoon Teacher's notes The Abyssinian crisis 1 Decoding a cartoon about Abyssinia 2 The Abyssinian Crisis, what decisions will you make? 3 Explain Hoare's decisions in a news broadcast Review 3 What were the strengths and weaknesses of the League Teacher's notes The Agencies of the League of Nations 1 The world after WW1 - why was peace not people's only priority? 2 Design the rooms for each Agency of the League in its Geneva HQ 3 Making the news 4 Guide a VIP around the League's HQ Teacher's notes Overall judgements about the League of Nations 1 Put the events to do with the League of Nations into chronological order 2 Can you explain clearly why the League failed? 3 Complete a visual essay Teacher's notes How did the British see Hitler in 1933? 1 Hitler in 1933 2 A source investigation 3 Do these sources help to explain why Britain took so long to stand up to Hitler? Teacher's notes Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-39 1 Europe in 1933 2 Politicians under pressure 1933-37 2 Politicians under pressure 1933-37 Alternate version 3 Crisis point 1938-39 3 Crisis point 1938-39 Alternate version 4 Chamberlain returns home Teacher's notes The 1930s in cartoons 1 Hitler's policies 1933-38 2 Put the cartoons in sequence 3 Tell the story 4 Working with cartoons - decode the message rather than tell the story Teacher's notes The world in 1945 1 The wartime view: Friends and allies 2 The wartime view: other perspectives 3 What lay behind the suspicions? 4 Yalta and Potsdam - who was thinking what? 5 Can we find the roots of the Cold war in 1945? Teacher's notes The Cold War develops 1946-48 1 A view from 1947 2 Stalin in action: Eastern Europe 1945-48 3 1946: Reactions to Soviet policy 4 1947-48: The Truman show - your chance to be President 5 A view from 1947: Revisited Teacher's notes The Cold War develops 1948-49 1 Germany 1949 2 Why did the West invest so much time and effort into Berlin in 1948-49? 3 1949: What a year! 4 Aces High: Who was to blame for the Cold War? 5 Blowing the examiner's mind: Interpretations of the Cold War Teacher's notes The Korean War 1 Korea 1950: Why were the Americans concerned? 2 Harry and friend 3 What was the Korean War like? 4 How many minutes to Doomsday? Teacher's notes The Berlin Wall 1 Who was Peter Fechter? 2 The Berlin Wall story: Why did Peter Fechter die? 3 How many minutes to Doomsday? Teacher's notes The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 1 The Cuban Crisis 1962: How do we know this was serious? 2 Excomm's advice: What would you have done? 3 The Cuban Crisis: What happened when (Quick version) 4 The Cuban Crisis: What happened when (Detailed version) 5 The Cuban Crisis: Winners and losers 6 How many minutes to Doomsday? Teacher's notes Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War 1 Cold War Connections: Eastern Europe 2 Hungary 1956 and Czechoslovakia 1968: How similar were they? 3 Gorby and Reagan 4 The fall of the wall 5 How many minutes to Doomsday? Teacher's notes Afghanistan 1 Would you have gone into Afghanistan? Part 1 2 Would you have gone into Afghanistan? Part 2 3 Afghanistan: The USSR's Vietnam? 4 How many minutes to Doomsday? Teacher's notes The Cold War in the media 1 The wartime legacy 2 The US media and the Cold War 3 The US film industry and the Cold War 4 Soviet cartoons and the Cold War 5 Set this year's cartoon question Teacher's notes The Cold War: Nuclear politics 1 Hiroshima 1945 2 The nuclear age 1945-63 3 Nuclear timeline Teacher's notes The Cold War: Words and terms 1 What does detente mean? 2 Choose your own Cold War term(s) Teacher's notes The Vietnam War 1 How US got involved 2 Guerilla tactics and US tactics 3 The My Lai massacre Terrorism -The propaganda and information war 1 Anti terrorist material 2 The propaganda / information war: The IRA 3 The propaganda / information war: The IRA and PLO 4 The propaganda / information war: Al-Qaeda 5 Government actions in the propaganda / information war: Al-Qaeda and militant Islamists 6 How similar are terrorist organisations? Teacher's Notes Government action on Terrorism 1 Get tough or talk? 2 The British government vs the IRA 3 Israel vs the PLO 4 The USA and its allies vs al-Qaeda 5 Get tough or talk? Writing it up. Teacher's Notes Is terrorism effective? 1 Of course terrorism is effective! 2 The British government vs the
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