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This site will contain your overview of CPE WW2 because you will create the content for Practices and Effects yourself. Some content for the Causes of WW2 has already been added.

For the exam, you will need to study CPE of both WW1 and WW2. See the revision tips page for exam strategies.

Nathan John Jules || **Practices_1942-1945** Catriona Will EG Luther || **Practices_Air** Alex Matt Max || **Practices_Land** Olivia Miranda Ned || **Practices_Nava**l Eric Liam Bruce || **Practices_Socio-Eco-Pol** Andie Chilli Will Noli || =Overview (from your revision booklet):=
 * **Practices_1939-1941**

Causes
Most importantly: 1. Consider:
 * how they contributed directly to the outbreak of WWI
 * and/or created the right conditions for WWI
 * and/or combined with other causes to create war
 * possible weaknesses of offering certain causes as a long-term explanation for war

2. Make sure you can justify your choices, in terms of the most important causes.
 * The Treaty of Versailles. Un/Reasonable demands made of Germany
 * The League of Nations: Strengths & Weaknesses + Success & Failures. Why did it fail?
 * Economic Depression
 * Rise of Fascism

Attempts made after WW1 to improve international relations. Are any successful?
 * Washington Conferences (1921-2)
 * Genoa Conference and Treaty of Rapallo (1922)
 * Dawes Plan (1924)
 * Locarno Treaties (1925)
 * Kellogg-Briand Pact
 * Young Plan
 * World Disarmament Conference
 * Are the prospects for peace good after 1925? Why? Why not?

What role do international relations play as a long term cause of WW2?
 * French role in international diplomacy (Ruhr / Appeasement)
 * Western attitudes towards Russian Rev 1917.
 * How much blame should the USA carry for the failure to secure peace in the 1920s?
 * Should German attitudes in the 1920s be taken into account? Is war inevitable, even then, because of German attitudes?
 * The Great Depression
 * Appeasement – how important was this policy as a cause of war?
 * The rise of Hitler
 * The rise of Mussolini

Practices

 * 1) The key successes and failures of the Allies and Axis powers from 1939 to the end of 1941
 * 2) The most crucial events/battles/features of WW2 according to the development and outcome of the war
 * 3) The extent to which the Second World War was a “total war”.
 * 4) How changes in military tactics and strategies determined the outcome of WW2
 * 5) How the Second World War affected the role and status of women on the homefront
 * 6) How naval warfare was used in WW2
 * 7) Technological developments during WW2.
 * 8) Why Germany and the Axis powers lost WW2.
 * 9) Reasons the Allied powers won the war
 * 10) The contribution made towards the war effort by civilians on the home front
 * 11) The role of air power in World War Two
 * 12) The use and effects of propaganda in World War Two
 * 13) How developments in weapons changed the nature of warfare during the Second World War
 * 14) The social and economic impact of the war on combatant countries.

Effects

 * The decision to drop the atomic bomb, ushering in of the nuclear age. The consequences of the decision to drop atomic bomb
 * The origins of the Cold War. When does the Cold War eventually settle into place?
 * The creation of the United Nations. Oganisation of the United Nations (how it functions)
 * Postwar actions of the United Nations
 * Differences with the League of Nations

Most importantly, remember to compare and contrast the two conflicts.

You MUST form an argument about HOW and WHY the causes, practices and effects are similar and/or different and to EVALUATE their relative importance.

(NB: Did you know that there are over 20.000 Wikis on wikispaces that are devoted to "IB History"? Good to know that you are sharing this activity with so many other IB students.)