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First published

London : Letts Educational, 2007

176 stran : ilustrace (převážně barevné), mapy, portréty ; 30 cm

ISBN 978-1-84315-510-2 (brožováno)

Obálkový podnázev: complete study & revision guide

Na obálce pod názvem: covers two year course

Obsahuje rejstřík

001654347

This book and your GCSE course 4 // Preparing for the examination 6 // Five ways to improve your grade 7 // Internet links 8 // Britain 1906-1918 // 1,1 The Liberal reforms 1906-1914 9 // 1.2 Votes for women 15 // 1.3 The Home Front during the First World War 22 // Sample GCSE questions 25 // The First World War 1914-1918 // 2.1 The Schlieffen Plan and stalemate 28 // 2.2 The other fronts . i . 2 // 2.3 The end of the First World War X 35 // Exam practice questions 37 // The peace settlements // 3.1 The aims of the leading countries 39 // 3.2 Punishment of the defeated countries 41 // Sample GCSE questions 44 // The League of Nations // 4.1 The setting up of the League 45 // 4.2 The League in action in the 1920s 49 // 4.3 Failures of the League in the 1930s 52 // Exam practice questions 56 // Hitler’s foreign policy // 5.1 The Great Depression // // 5.2 Hitler’s foreign policy aims // 5.3 The five steps to war // 58 // 60 // Sample GCSE questions // The Second World War 1939-1945 // 6.1 The early war years and war outside Europe 67 // 6.2 The defeat of Japan and Germany 71 // 6.3 The Home Front in Britain 73 // Sample GCSE questions 77 // The causes of the Cold War 1945-1949 // 7.1 The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences 81 // 7.2 Rivalry in Europe 1945-1949 83 // Exam practice questions 87 // Tension and detente 1950-1981 // 8.1 The Korean War 1950-1953 88 // 8.2 The Berlin Wall 1961 90 // 8.3 The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 91 // 8.4 The Vietnam War 94 // 8.5 Attempts at detente 1953-1981

96 // Sample GCSE questions 98 // The collapse of communism // 9.1 Opposition to Soviet control 100 // 9.2 Poland and iSolidarityf 1980-1989 104 // 9.3 Gorbachev and the collapse of communism 106 // Exam practice questions 108 // Britain 1919-1951 // 10.11919-1929: the General Strike 110 // 10.2 1929-1939: depression and recovery 114 // 10.31939-1951: a changed society? 117 // Sample GCSE questions l L // Russia 1914-1941 // 11.1 Russia before the First World War 122 // * 11.2 The impact of the First World War 125 // 11.3 March to November 1917 126 // 11.4 Bolshevik victory: November 1917 128 // 11.5 Bolshevik rule and its impact 1918-1928 130 // 11.6 Stalin’s dictatorship 135 // Exam practice questions 142 // Germany 1918-1945 // 12.1 The weakness of the Weimar Republic 143 // 12.2 Hitler’s rise to power147 // 12.3 Nazi control of Germany 1933-1945 153 // 12.4 Life in Nazi Germany 158 // Sample GCSE questions 161 // The USA 1919-1941 // 13.1 Boom and slump in the USA 1919-1941 162 // Exam practice questions 170 // Exam practice answers172 // Index 175