Essay - Orgins of WW1 - MM.docx - The Origins of the First.
World War 1 is regarded by many as marking the beginning of twentieth century history since it represented such a complete departure from the past and heralded changes that were to have an impact for decades to come. The post-war treaties ushered in a period where the world was reshaped with new borders, movements, ideologies and power structures. The period after World War 1 was characterised.

External Assessment: Paper 1: A source-based paper on Rights and Protest (1 hour, 20%) Paper 2: An essay paper based on the two twentieth century world history topics of authoritarian states and the Cold War. (1.5 hours, 25%) Paper 3: An essay-based paper on the History of Europe (2.5 hours, 35%).

You will study the rise and fall of the great ideologies of Communism, Nazism and Fascism, the causes and outcome of the Second World War and the development of the Cold War between the Super Powers after 1945. The module will also look at international relations and the global economic system after the fall of the Soviet Empire in 1989-1991.

FCC History and Archives. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club was founded in 1943 in Japanese-occupied China during World War II. Its first base was in Chongqing, a city controlled by nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek. As the struggle between the Nationalists and Mao Zedong’s Communists intensified after the invaders were repelled, the Club.

This module surveys the origins, conflicts and outcomes of the Civil War by not only understanding how the war altered the United States but understanding the Civil War and its aftermath in a broader context. Students will examine the causes and consequences of the conflict, by looking backwards to the roots of sectionalism and secession, and forwards into the postwar period, known as.

In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied powers launched the first international war crimes tribunal, known as the Nuremberg Trials, to prosecute top Nazi officials. It wasn’t until the 1990s, however, that many governments coalesced around the idea of a permanent court to hold perpetrators to account for the world’s most serious crimes. Ad hoc international criminal tribunals had been.

In 1940, as the United States anticipated its entry into World War II, Land proposed a new task for the young company—to focus its scientific research and manufacturing on technologies that would help to win the impending war. The U.S. entered the war in December of the following year, and Polaroid became one of many companies to contribute to the wartime effort.