International Relations: the Changing International Order 1918-1975 | OCR GCSE History A (J410)
International Relations: the Changing International Order 1918-1975
- 105 questions
- 9 subtopics
- Paper 1
- Paper 1
International Relations: The Changing International Order 1918–1975 is examined in Paper 1, Period study with non-British depth study.
It covers the Versailles settlement, the League and the agreements of the 1920s, the Depression, the failure of the League and the road to war, soviet actions in Eastern Europe and the Western response, 1945–48, nATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis, origins of US involvement in Vietnam and the tactics of the war, uS withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the war, changing interpretations of Appeasement, changing interpretations of the responsibility for the Cold War and the big ideas behind the twentieth-century international order.
Sample questions from International Relations: the Changing International Order 1918-1975
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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The Versailles settlement, the League and the agreements of the 1920s
Why did the absence of the USA weaken the League so badly?
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The richest trading nation in the world was missing, so economic sanctions could always be broken and no great force stood behind them. -
The Depression, the failure of the League and the road to war
What did Japan do in Manchuria in 1931?
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It used an explosion on the South Manchurian Railway near Mukden as a pretext to invade, and set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. -
Soviet actions in Eastern Europe and the Western response, 1945–48
Which four powers occupied Germany after 1945?
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The USA, Britain, France and the USSR, each with its own zone. -
NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis
How did the two alliances change the danger of war in Europe?
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The continent was split into two armed camps, so any local quarrel now risked pulling in every great power at once. -
Origins of US involvement in Vietnam and the tactics of the war
What was Operation Rolling Thunder?
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The sustained American bombing campaign against North Vietnam that began in 1965 and lasted more than three years. -
US withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the war
What was Vietnamization?
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Nixon’s policy of handing the fighting over to the South Vietnamese army while American troops were steadily brought home. -
Changing interpretations of Appeasement
What is the orthodox interpretation of appeasement?
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That it was a weak and mistaken policy which fed Hitler’s ambitions and made a general war certain. -
Changing interpretations of the responsibility for the Cold War
How did McCarthyism affect American writing about the origins of the Cold War?
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Anyone suggesting that the USA shared the blame risked being branded disloyal, so critical views were driven out of public debate in the early 1950s.
The 9 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| The Versailles settlement, the League and the agreements of the 1920s | The Big Three, the War Guilt Clause, reparations and military limits, the League's weakness without the USA and its powers, Corfu, the Dawes Plan, Locarno, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Young Plan and the failure of disarmament. | 13 |
| The Depression, the failure of the League and the road to war | The Wall Street Crash and its effect on Germany and Japan, Manchuria, Abyssinia and the League, the Rhineland, appeasement and Munich, the occupation of Czechoslovakia, the Nazi-Soviet Pact and the outbreak of war in 1939. | 13 |
| Soviet actions in Eastern Europe and the Western response, 1945–48 | Yalta and Potsdam, salami tactics, the occupation of Germany and the two states of 1949, the Truman Doctrine, containment, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin blockade and airlift, and what followed from the crisis. | 12 |
| NATO, the Warsaw Pact, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis | The founding and central promise of NATO, West German rearmament and the Warsaw Pact, Europe's two armed camps, flight from East Germany, the Berlin Wall and its effect on the risk of war, and Castro, Khrushchev's missiles, the quarantine and the terms that ended the Cuban crisis. | 14 |
| Origins of US involvement in Vietnam and the tactics of the war | The Geneva agreement of 1954, the domino theory, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Operation Rolling Thunder, search and destroy and the struggle for hearts and minds, the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Vietcong tactics and what the Tet Offensive achieved for each side. | 9 |
| US withdrawal from Vietnam, opposition at home and the end of the war | The draft, Kent State, the Pentagon Papers, Vietnamization, the Paris Peace Accords and why they failed, the fall of Saigon, American deaths, the damage to US standing, détente and the Helsinki agreement of 1975. | 11 |
| Changing interpretations of Appeasement | Guilty Men and wartime hostility, Churchill's unnecessary war, the orthodox view, the Munich analogy and its use over Vietnam, the Cold War's influence, the thirty-year rule, the revisionist case for Chamberlain and the archives opened after 1991. | 10 |
| Changing interpretations of the responsibility for the Cold War | The orthodox view that Stalin was to blame, the Soviet explanation, how censorship and McCarthyism shaped history writing, the revisionist interpretation and the Vietnam War, its weakness, the post-revisionist view and what the Soviet archives revealed after 1991. | 10 |
| The big ideas behind the twentieth-century international order | The rival forms of government between the wars and in the Cold War, communist economics and its weaknesses, superpowers, the end of European dominance, nationalism and self-determination, ideology, disputes over Hitler's aims and new sources. | 13 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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