Cambridge iGCSE History Core Content B

This is a series of lessons that covers Core content: Option B
The twentieth century: international relations from 1919
This is the Cambridge iGCSE History (CIE)

• Each lesson starts with five recall questions that are self assess (answers are on the next slide)
• The lessons cover the spec for Core Content B, Cambridge iGCSE, for exams in 2024, 2025, and 2026
• Clear learning objectives in each lesson.
• NO TEXTBOOK is required for these lessons, but that does occasionally you need to print the materials that come with the lessons.

Lessons included:
1 Was the Treaty of Versailles fair?
1.1 aims of the Big Three
1.2 Treaty of Versailles
1.3 Political impact of ToV on Germany
1.4 Economic and social impact of ToV on Germany
1.5 Contemporary opinions about ToV

2 To what extent was the League of Nations a success
2.1 Structure of the League of Nations
2.2 Success and failures of the LoN
2.3 LoN’s humanitarian work
2.4a Manchuria (events and causes)
2.4b Manchuria (consequences)
2.4c Manchuria source questions
2.5a Abyssinian Crisis (events and causes)
2.5b Abyssinian Crisis Abyssinian consequences
2.5c Abyssinian source Qs

3 How far was Hitler’s foreign policy to blame for the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939?
3.1 Hitler’s Aims in foreign policy
3.2 Rhineland, Saar and rearmament
3.3 Spanish Civil War and Anti-Conmintern Pact
3.4 Appeasement and Rome-Berlin Axis
3.5 Anschluss
3.6 Sudetenland and Munich Agreement
3.7 Nazi-Soviet Pact
3.8 Why did peace collapse?

4 Who was to blame for the Cold War?
4.1 End of WW2
4.2 Yalta
4.3 Potsdam
4.4 Soviet expansion
4.5 USA’s reaction to Soviet expansion
4.6Berlin blockade and airlift
4.7 NATO and Warsaw
4.8 Who was to blame for the Cold War?
5 How effectively did the United States contain the spread of communism?
5.1 Causes of the Korean War
5.2 Events of the Korean War
5.3 Cuban Crisis
5.4 consequences of the Cuban Crisis
5.5 Vietnam
5.6 Involvement in Vietnam war
5.7 Events of the Vietnam War
5.8 Causes of the Vietnam War
5.9 Summary of Vietnam

6 How secure was the USSR’s control over Eastern Europe, 1948–c.1989?
6.1 Hungary
6.2 Resistance Czechoslovakia
6.3 Comparing and contrasting resistance in Hungary and Czechoslovakia
6.4 Berlin Wall
6.5 Poland and solidarity
6.6 Gorbachev