Access to History for the IB Diploma: Peacemaking, peacekeeping - international relations 1918-36

Summary:

Ensure your students have access to the authoritative, in-depth and accessible content of this series for the IB History Diploma.

This series for the IB History Diploma has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to History series and tailor-made it to better fit the IB learner's needs. Each title in the series provides depth of content, focussed on specific topics in the IB History guide, and examination guidance on different exam-style questions - helping students develop a good knowledge and understanding of the topic alongside the skills they need to do well.

- Ensures students gain a good understanding of the IB History topic through an engaging, in-depth, reliable and up-to-date narrative - presented in an accessible way.

- Helps students to understand historical issues and examine the evidence, through providing a wealth of relevant sources and analysis of the historiography surrounding key debates.

- Gives students guidance on answering exam-style questions with model answers and practice questions

Table of Contents:
Introduction
1 What you will study
2 How you will be assessed
3 About this book
Chapter 1 The Paris Peace Conference: the aims of the participants
1 Conditions in Europe in 1919
2 Aims of the USA in Paris 1919
3 British aims for the Paris Peace Conference 1919
4 French aims for the Paris Peace Conference 1919
5 Italian aims for the Paris Peace Conference 1919
6 German hopes for the Paris Peace Conference 1919
Examination advice
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 2 The terms of the Paris Peace Treaties 1919-20
1 The Treaty of Versailles
2 The Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye
3 The Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine
4 The Treaty of Trianon
5 The Treaty of Sèvres
Examination advice
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 3 The geopolitical and economic impact of the Paris Peace Treaties on Europe
1 Germany 1919-1929
2 Key debate
3 Russia 1917-32
4 Italy 1919-28
5 Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Balkans
Examination advice
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 4 International diplomacy and the League of Nations
1 Diplomatic realities after Paris 1919
2 The League of Nations
3 Disarmament 1922-1935
4 Establishment and impact of the mandate system
5 Key debate
Examination advice
Examination practice
Activities
Chapter 5 The Great Depression and threats to international peace and collective security
1 The economic and political effects of the Great Depression
2 The Manchurian Crisis
3 Key debate
4 The Abyssinian Crisis
5 International agreements and diplomatic actions 1934-6
Examination advice
Examination practice
Activities
Timeline
Glossary
Further reading
Internal assessment

About the Author(s):
Andy Dailey has degrees from Vanderbilt and Michigan State Universities in history and education. He is an experienced IB History teacher and workshop leader. He currently teaches at the New Cairo British International School in Egypt where he is CAS Coordinator.

David G Williamson is a retired Head of History. He has written several texts for AS and A2, and undergraduate level.

Readership:
History IB Diploma students