Ideology and conflict
• What impact did the treaties which concluded World War One have on nations and people?
• What were the dominant ideologies of the period?
• What impact did the post-war treaties, the development of ideologies and the economic crisis have on the events leading to World War Two?
In this area of study students explore the events, ideologies and movements of the period after World War One; the emergence of conflict; and the causes of World War Two. They investigate the impact of the treaties which ended the Great War and which redrew the map of Europe and broke up the former empires of the defeated nations. They consider the aims, achievements and limitations of the League of Nations.
While democratic governments initially replaced the monarchies and authoritarian forms of government in European countries at the end of the war, new ideologies of socialism, communism and fascism gained popular support. Communism emerged in Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism first emerged in Italy where the Italian Fascist Party gained power in 1922 and before the end of the decade fascist parties existed in several European countries. In 1933, Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Party gained power in Germany. In Japan, the government was increasingly influenced by the military and by anti-Western attitudes, shaping much of its political and social action. In the wake of World War One, the USA pursued an isolationist policy and while the ‘Roaring Twenties’ was a decade of economic growth, the thirties saw considerable suffering as a result of the Depression.
Economic instability, territorial aggression and totalitarianism combined to draw the world into a second major conflict in 1939.
• What were the dominant ideologies of the period?
• What impact did the post-war treaties, the development of ideologies and the economic crisis have on the events leading to World War Two?
In this area of study students explore the events, ideologies and movements of the period after World War One; the emergence of conflict; and the causes of World War Two. They investigate the impact of the treaties which ended the Great War and which redrew the map of Europe and broke up the former empires of the defeated nations. They consider the aims, achievements and limitations of the League of Nations.
While democratic governments initially replaced the monarchies and authoritarian forms of government in European countries at the end of the war, new ideologies of socialism, communism and fascism gained popular support. Communism emerged in Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism first emerged in Italy where the Italian Fascist Party gained power in 1922 and before the end of the decade fascist parties existed in several European countries. In 1933, Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Party gained power in Germany. In Japan, the government was increasingly influenced by the military and by anti-Western attitudes, shaping much of its political and social action. In the wake of World War One, the USA pursued an isolationist policy and while the ‘Roaring Twenties’ was a decade of economic growth, the thirties saw considerable suffering as a result of the Depression.
Economic instability, territorial aggression and totalitarianism combined to draw the world into a second major conflict in 1939.