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Describe the treatment of Germanys wartime allies under the terms of the following treaties of 191920: (a) St Germain; (b) Neuilly; (c) Trianon; (d) Svres. To what extent were President Wilsons Fourteen Points put into effect in these treaties? 2. Describe the main attempts to keep the world peaceful during the years 192228. For what reasons were international relations more disturbed during the years 193136? Outline the ways in which Mussolini increased his power in Italy during the years 191925. To what extent might his government be described as a dictatorship by the end of those years? 3. Describe the part played by each of the following in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler: (a) the Treaty of Versailles; (b) Communism; (c) the Wall Street Crash. How important were racial issues in the origin and rise to power of National Socialism? 4. With reference to Spain in the 1930s, describe: (a) the social divisions that existed within the country on the eve of the Civil War; (b) the main military engagements that took place during the Civil War. How important was foreign assistance in determining the outcome of the Spanish Civil War? 5. (a) Describe two of the following in the history of Britain between the two world wars: (i) the first Labor government (1924); (ii) the General Strike (1926); (iii) the formation of the National government (1931); (iv) the hunger marches of the 1930s. To what extent had the British economy emerged from the Depression by 1939? With reference to the Paris peace settlement of 191920, describe: (a) the military restrictions placed on Germany; (b) the frontier changes made to Germany; (c) the frontier changes made to Austria-Hungary. To what extent did the decisions reached at Paris in 191920 make another war in Europe likely? 6. Describe the relationships during the years 193439 between Nazi Germany and: (a) Fascist Italy; (b) the Soviet Union;

(c) Japan. Why was there a changing relationship between Britain and Germany during these years? 7. Describe how the Paris peace settlement of 1919-20 adjusted the former boundaries in Europe of: (a) Germany; (b) Austria-Hungary. To what extent were these adjustments unfair to the peoples concerned? 8. Outline the main features of: (a) the structure of the League of Nations; (b) its work in improving living and working conditions. How successful was the League in its interventions in international crises during the 1920s? 9. Show how, during the years 1938-39, Germany was able to bring under its control: (a) Austria; (b) Czechoslovakia; (c) Poland. 10. Describe how Mussolini increased his power within Italy during the years 1919-25. To what extent, during the 1920s and 1930s, did the Italian people benefit from his rule? 11. Show how the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (1919): (a) adjusted Germanys boundaries in Europe; (b) restricted Germanys armed forces; (c) dealt with Germanys overseas empire. To what extent, by 1926, had Germany become more favorably regarded by other European powers? 12. Describe the main disputes in which the League of Nations intervened during the 1920s. Why were its interventions in the 1930s less successful than those in the 1920s? To what extent did the events of the Manchurian crisis of 1931 mark the end of a generally peaceful period? 13. Show how Hitler in his foreign policies was successful against: (a) Austria in 1938; (b) Czechoslovakia in 193839; (c) Poland in 1939. Why did he meet such little resistance in his moves against each of these countries? 14. Show how Mussolini as leader of Italy during the 1920s and 1930s was able to: (a) overcome his political opponents in Italy; (b) establish good relations with the Church; (c) enlarge Italys overseas empire. Why did people within Italy in the 1920s and 1930s have differing views about fascist government? 15. Describe each of the following features of Woodrow Wilsons time as President of the United States: (a) the entry of the United States into the First World War in 1917;

(b) the Fourteen Points of 1918; (c) Wilsons role at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Why, by 1921, had many in the United States become critical of Wilson as their President?