MWH4.2.7 Revision - updated 11.40pm

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• War in Europe

• Reasons for outbreak of WWII
• Aggressive Nazi foreign policy
• Policy of Appeasement
• Nazi-Soviet Pact
  
• Reasons for aggressive Nazi foreign policy
  
• Search for living space
• Creation of German Reich
• Elimination of Jews & Communism
• Right the wrongs of Versailles
  
• Reasons for Appeasement Policy?
• Treaty of Versailles too harsh
• Self-determination is acceptable
• Avoid war at all cost
  
• Reasons for Germans moving closer to war?
• Domestic Policy: Rearmament & Remilitarization
• Foreign Policy: Saar, Anschluss & Sudeten
• Negotiations: Berschtesgaden, Bad Godesburg & Munich
• Reasons for the Nazi-Soviet Pact
• Avoidance of war between USSR & Germany
• Gains Poland/Polish Corridor (Germany) + Ukraine (USSR)
  
• Test for UK/France
• Reasons for defeat of Germany
• Allied strategic & tactical strength
• Nazi strategic & tactical errors
• Resistance against Hitler

• War in the Pacific
• Reasons Japan modernised in the period 1854-1893?
• Role of the West
• Rivalry between clans
• Meiji Restoration
• Reasons Japan become an imperial power from 1893?
  
• Age of imperialism
• Rise of militarism
• Search for economic security
• Effects of Russo-Japanese War
  
• effects of disarmament
  
• rise of militarism
  
• Reasons Japan started a Pacific war?
• weakness of LON/China
• alliance with Germany
  
• removal of US threat
• Reasons for Japan's defeat
• Extended empire/local resistance
• Defeat of Germany
• Use of atomic bomb

• Cold War
• Reasons for disagreements at Yalta & Potsdam
• economic plans for division of Germany
• political plans for elections in E. Europe
• military plans for ending the Pacific War
• Reasons for escalation of the Cold War
• Creation of West Germany
• Berlin Blockade
• Creation of NATO
• Creation of COMECON & Warsaw Pact
• Reasons for Communist victory in China
• Strength of CCP
• Mao's political leadership
• CCP social-economic policies
• PLA's strategic and tactical strengths
• Weakness of KMT
• Chiang KS's political leadership
• KMT's social-economic policies
• KMT's strategic & tactical errors
• Impact of Sino-Japanese War
• Reasons for Korean War
• Cold War tensions/communist victory in China
• North Korea's unification plans
• US/UN incursions into China
• Reasons for Cuban Missile Crisis
• Escalation of Cold War in Europe & Asia
• Cuban Revolution
• Soviet-US missile gap