Notes for each syllabus dot point
Includes:
Survey
● Growth of European tensions, including:
– the collapse of collective security
– Abyssinia, the Spanish Civil War
– Britain, France and the policy of appeasement
– significance of the Nazi–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Focus of study
● German foreign policy, including:
– aims and strategy of German foreign policy to September 1939
– impact of Nazi ideology on German foreign policy to September 1939
● Course of the European war, including:
– German advances: the fall of Poland, the Low Countries and France
– the air war and its effects: The Battle of Britain and the Blitz, the bombing of Germany
– Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Stalingrad and the significance of the Russian campaign
– Battle of El Alamein and the significance of the conflict in North Africa to the European War
● Civilians at war, including:
– social and economic effects of the war on civilians in Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union
– the nature and effects of the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied territories
● End of the conflict, including:
– ‘D’ Day and the liberation of France
– Russian counter-offensives 1944
– final defeat 1944–1945
– Nuremberg War Crimes trials