| DP History at La
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Last
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24 mai 2017 |
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Term 2 |
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Key Questions |
Lesson material |
Additional materials and external links |
| How
effective were the Paris Peace Treaties?
Detailed
Syllabus Reference
Paper 1 Source Analysis - Prescribed subject
3: The move to global war.
Paper 2 Essays - World history topic 10:
Authoritarian states (20th century) and World history topic 11:
Causes and effects of 20th century wars
Paper 3 (HL) Essays - 14: European states in
the inter-war years (19181939) 15: Versailles to Berlin:
Diplomacy in Europe (19191945) |
Key chronology and background of the Paris
Treaties from
Modern Europe. Chapter 10 - Culpin and Henig
textbook extract.
Terms of the Treaties from Culpin and Henig.
Reading and note-making from this
extended essay by Ruth Henig.
Short BBC documentary video -
Make Germany Pay.
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Video - David Reynolds explains how the Paris Peace
Treaties helped cause WWII and made the EU. |
Paris 1919 Peace Treaties role-play activity.
Previous
role-plays.
The
rules of the role-play
Examples of motions and amendments.
Useful
maps
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Judgements of
various 'historians' on the treaties compiled by John D Clare
John D Clare on
the Paris Peace Treaties - an outstanding source with many
useful links.
Essay by Hans
A. Schmitt
Essay by Raffael
Scheck
The Long Shadow the
complete series on the consequences of WWI
A more academic essay on
the BBC site by Dr Ruth Henig
BBC - How the
peace treaties shaped the modern world.
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How successful was the League of Nations in the
1920s? |
Culpin and Henig
textbook on the League of Nations.
Video - Edited extract from
the People's Century series on the League of Nations.
Peter Catterall
essay, why did the League of Nations fail?
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John D Clare on
the League of Nations
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Lost
Peace Video on
the Peace treaties and their consequences from the 1990s
documentary series People's Century. Website for
the series. |
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| What is
fascism? |
What is fascism?
worksheet. Is Donald Trump a
fascist? John McNeill, professor of history at Georgetown
University writes in the
Washington Post in 2016.
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Video - David Reynolds explains how the Paris Peace
Treaties helped bring about fascism. |
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Extract from Robert Pearce Fascism and Nazism.
Video on the continuing influence of fascism today. |
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How did Mussolini come to power?
Detailed
Syllabus Reference
Paper 1 Source Analysis - Prescribed subject 3:
The move to global war.
Paper 2 Essays - World history topic 10:
Authoritarian states (20th century) and World history topic 11:
Causes and effects of 20th century wars
Paper 3 (HL) Essays - 14: European states in the
inter-war years (19181939)
15: Versailles to Berlin: Diplomacy in Europe (19191945)
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What
is a modern authoritarian state? -
Key points also as a printable
worksheet with questions. How have
20th century authoritarian states been analyzed? A short
introduction to the
historiography of authoritarianism. Also as a
worksheet.
Textbook - Todd and Waller, Authoritarian States pp.
12-24
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Video
on Italian Fascism in Colour. To what
extent was Mussolini's rise to power due to the First World War?
Essay and
printable version.
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| How did
Mussolini consolidate and maintain power? |
Textbook - Todd and
Waller, Authoritarian States pp. 25-53 |
Video - Mussolini and football |
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What were the aims and results of Mussolini's
Policies? |
Textbook - Todd and Waller, Authoritarian States pp.
54-74 |
Video - Jonathan Meades - Ben Building: Mussolini, Monuments
and Modernism. 2016. Did fascism fail to
transform Italy?
Essay and
printable version.
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| Was the
Weimar Republic doomed from the start?
Paper 3 - HL Europe Essay 14 European States in the Interwar
Years
Weimar Germany: constitutional, political, economic/financial
and social issues (1918
1933);
Paper 2 - World history topic 10: Authoritarian states (20th
century)
Emergence of authoritarian states - Conditions in which
authoritarian states emerged: economic factors; social division;
impact of war; weakness of political system
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Culpin and Henig
textbook
extract on the Weimar Republic.
Table to complete in groups
Short BBC documentary video -
Make Germany Pay. The second half is relevant here.
Series of
short videos from BBC bitesize clearly explain the failure
of Weimar and rise of the Nazis. |
Worksheet on the Cultural impact of WWI, includes references
to Italy and Germany. Short introductory
video from the Open University on the impact of the
Bauhaus on modernism. Short documentary film made by my former
students on
Gropius and Bauhaus.
Classic Weimar cinema,
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Fritz Lang's
Metropolis
John D Clare on
the Weimar and Hitler's Germany |
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How did Hitler come to power?
Detailed
Syllabus Reference
Paper 1 Source Analysis - Prescribed subject 3:
The move to global war.
Paper 2 Essays - World history topic 10:
Authoritarian states (20th century) and World history topic 11:
Causes and effects of 20th century wars
Paper 3 (HL) Essays - 14: European states in the
inter-war years (19181939)
15: Versailles to Berlin: Diplomacy in Europe (19191945)
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Textbook - Todd and Waller, Authoritarian States pp.
76-90 Hitler as an orator activity - worksheets of
sources and
questions.
Leni Riefenstahl describes Hitler's oratory -
short
video
Nazi Party meeting 1932 -
Empathy activity
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Nazis: A Warning from History 1
Video shown
in class.
Questions to go with the video and
notes summarising the episode. |
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What was the impact of the Great Depression?
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Impact of the Great
Depression.
Video from the 1990s documentary series
People's Century. |
John D Clare on
the Weimar and Hitler's Germany |
| How did
the Nazis consolidate and maintain their power? |
Textbook - Todd and Waller, Authoritarian States pp.
91-104
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Nazis: A Warning from History 2
Video shown
in class.
Notes summarising the episode. |
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Nazis: A Warning from History 3
Video
will be shown later
in class but is useful on foreign policy here.
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Master Race
Video from the 1990s documentary series
People's Century. |
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What were the Nazis policies and impact? |
Textbook - Todd and Waller, Authoritarian States pp.
105-128 Leni Riefenstahl describes her
relationship with Goebbels and making Triumph of the Will -
video Short
documentary on Goebbels role in Nazi Germany.
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What is propaganda?
Book extract - the film historian Richard Taylor (who taught
me) defines propaganda through answering a series of questions:
Must propaganda be deliberate? Must the propaganda be hidden?
Must propaganda be successful to be propaganda? Must propaganda
always appeal to emotion rather than reason? etc.
Various sort videos on the importance of sport in Nazi Germany:
Football, the 1936
Olympics and
boxing.
Video - Hitler's architecture
and the KdF-
Jerry
building. On art, this video
explains the
Degenerate Art exhibition o 1937. |
| How can we
usefully compare authoritarian states? - Part 1: The rise to
power |
Link to website to
come.
Worksheet. |
For a very rare
occasion when an historian has attempted a serious, cross regime
analysis of two authoritarian states, see the conclusion of
Richard Overy's
comparative analysis of Stalin's Russia and Hitler's
Germany.
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