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VICModern History

Unit 1: Change and conflict (1918 to 1939)

13 dot points across 13 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

What challenges did democratic states face in the 1920s, and why did some succeed while others struggled?

How did the early stages of WWII reshape Europe?

How did the Great Depression reshape interwar politics?

How did World War I and its peace settlement reshape Europe between 1918 and the early 1920s?

How did Mussolini consolidate fascism in Italy?

How did Japan's rise to militarism produce the Pacific War?

How did Hitler consolidate the Nazi regime, 1933-1939?

How did authoritarian regimes consolidate power in the 1930s, and how did this lead to the collapse of collective security?

What ideologies emerged or grew in the interwar period, and why did they appeal?

Why did appeasement fail to prevent WWII?

How did Stalin consolidate power and transform the Soviet Union?

Why was the Spanish Civil War a defining ideological conflict of the 1930s?

Why did the Weimar Republic collapse?