DP History Questionbank

Description

This section deals with the period between the two World Wars and the attempts to promote international cooperation and collective security. Obstacles to cooperation, such as post-war revisionism, economic crises and challenges to democracy and political legitimacy in Italy, Germany and Spain respectively, all require examination and consideration. The policies of the right-wing regimes and the responses of democratic states are also the focus of this section.

• Germany 1919‑33: political, constitutional, economic, financial and social problems

• Italy 1919‑39: Mussolini’s domestic and foreign policies

• The impact of the Great Depression (case study of its effect on one country in Europe)

• Spanish Civil War: background to the outbreak of the Civil War; causes and consequences; foreign involvement; reasons for Nationalist victory

• Hitler’s domestic and foreign policy (1933‑39)

• Search for collective security; appeasement in the interwar years; the failure of international diplomacy; the outbreak of war in 1939

Directly related questions

• 16N.3op5a.HL.TZ0.15:

  Examine the social and economic impact on Italy of Mussolini’s domestic policies.

• 16N.3op5a.HL.TZ0.16:

  “By 1929, the Weimar Republic had overcome the problems of the immediate post-war years.” Discuss.