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Late 1800s: What are the significance of the following events, people, movements? 

Russian Revolution and causes: Explain these causes/ events. 

1905 revolution and the Duma 

The Pendulum of Russian History (Alexander II/III , Nicholas ) 

The Late industrialization of Russia 

The impact of WW1 

The Two revolutions 

Kerensky government

Brest Litovsk 

Mensheviks v Bolsheviks 

Causes of World War One 

Nationalism: how is Alsace Lorraine an example of nationalist tension? 

War plans: why were these a cause? What was one example of this? 

July crisis: why did this not prevent war? 

What did Belgium have to do with outbreak of war? 

Triple Entente and Triple Alliance: who was on what side? 

Imperialism: Why did the the Moroccan Crisis increase tensions?  

Kaiser Wilhelm’s Weltpolitik. 

Why was Bosnia and the assassination the trigger cause? 

Events and Outcomes of World War one 

How did World War one create the idea of ‘total war’? 

Concepts of attrition and ‘lions led by Donkeys’ 

What created the conditions for ‘trench warfare’?  

How and why did the war come to an end? 

Specifically : how was Germany punished at Versailles? 

Territory lost

Economic losses

Military restrictions 

Blame

Fascism

Define Fascism: what does it value/ oppose? 

Examples of how Fascism works within an existing political system

What is the connection between Fascism and warfare? 

Explain the failures and successes of the Nazis in the 1920s

How is Hitler helped into power?

Communism in Soviet Union 

Why was there a civil war in Russia? Who won and why? 

How did the revolution change the lives of ordinary people (positives) 

How was the government organized? 

Role of the Kulaks: why were they targeted? 

What were the economic changes brought about by Stalin? 

How and why was the Great Terror and purges carried out?

Who was Trotsky and what was his criticism of Stalin? 

Why did Stalin and Hitler agree to the Nazi Soviet Pact in 1939? 

Holocaust 

What were the Nuremberg laws? 

Why were Ghettos used to contain Jewish populations in the East? 

What were the role of Einsatzgruppen in the East? 

Why did some collaborate with the Nazis? 

Causes of WW2

What is appeasement? (definitions and reasons for policy)

Why was the Absyssinian crisis an example of appeasement? 

Why is the Czech Crisis important?

Why did the Nazi Soviet Pact lead to the second world war?