SL-HL. Document-based. This hour long exam contains four short-answer/structured questions on documentary sources that are primary or a mixture of primary and secondary; they may be written, pictorial or diagrammatic.
Content Area> Interwar Years- Peacemaking and Peacekeeping- International Relations (1918-1936)
Areas on which the source-based questions will focus are:
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Tasks: Use the criteria listed in the Introduction page to create your study guide. In some cases you will find additional sections and/or themes to add to your product.
Aims of the Participants and Peacemakers
You are to build out a study guide listing the major participants and the nations they represented going into the Paris Peace Conferences. Include a profile of each player with his skill set, potential personal and professional goals for the negotiations. A major focus is to be on President Wilson and the 14 Points. Include in your profiles specific positions the other participants took on the 14 Points.
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Terms of the Paris Peace Treaties 1919‑20: Versailles, St Germain, Trianon, Neuilly, Sèvres/Lausanne 1923
Profile each of the treaties and their short and potential long term effects. Include the IB theme of “the geopolitical and economic impact of the treaties on Europe” and “the establishment and impact of the mandate system”.
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Enforcement of the Provisions of the Treaties: US isolationism—the Retreat from the Anglo–American Guarantee
Break this study guide down into a possible flow chart showing the events/actions following each treaty and how the provisions were enforced (or not). Include events such as the Ruhr Crisis (1923). Focus a section on American isolationism using the ESPRAT+G filter to list the reasons and effects of the American isolationism including discussion of the Anglo-American Guarantee.
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Disarmament—Washington, London, Geneva Conferences
Provide information on these conferences and other efforts towards disarmament listing information on forces supportive of disarmament and those against it. Provide a timeline of events/actions by Germany, Italy and Japan covering their main efforts to expand their military capabilities.
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The League of Nations: Effects of the Absence of Major Powers; the Principle of Collective Security and Early Attempts at Peacekeeping (1920‑25)
Cover each of the subtopics to build out a section on the strengths, weaknesses and ultimate influence of the League in fulfilling its charter. Build out a solid historiography section.
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Peace and Security Note: Your study guide will also be used for the Paper 3 topic of “Search for collective security; appeasement in the interwar years; the failure of international diplomacy; the outbreak of war in 1939” so make sure you include the events that started WWII.
Provide details about Locarno and the “Locarno Spring” (1925) as well as other efforts to move nations towards better relations and collective security. Include a profile of Gustav Stresemann and his efforts to bring Germany back to a position of higher international status. Include a timeline of events/actions fully explaining each with your analysis.
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Depression and Threats to International Peace and Collective Security
Provide details about the series of events leading to the crash of the American stock market and its immediate ramifications in Europe. Profile the events/effects of the Great Depression in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France and the Soviet Union. Provide analysis on the short and long term effects upon the efforts in the 1920s for collective security.
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Manchuria (1931‑3) and Abyssinia (1935‑6)
Cover the main events of each military action while also providing analysis of these events for the Japanese military leadership and Mussolini.