Modern World History

Interwar crisis and the Second World War

First systematic modern world-history study; school-level chronology and map reading.

Includes

• Assigned reading with a causal timeline and map references
• Available mapped Mains questions and answer review
• One initial comparative recall review

Separate time needed

• Later spaced revisions
• Full-length Mains mocks
• Current foreign-policy developments
• Ancient and medieval world-history survey

Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data

• NIOS History, lesson 24 ↗

  Section headed Rise of Totalitarian Regimes (second section numbered 24.2)

• NIOS History, lesson 24 ↗

  Section 24.3, The Great Depression and Its Effects

• NIOS History, lesson 24 ↗

  Section 24.4, Aggression and Appeasement

• NIOS History, lesson 24 ↗

  Section 24.5, The World at War

• Introduction to the Holocaust ↗

  What was the Holocaust?; Why did the Nazis target Jews?; How did Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators persecute Jewish people?; What was the Final Solution? opening and its two methods; concluding aftermath. Distinguish persecution from the later systematic mass murder and distinguish ghettos, concentration camps and killing centres. No graphic testimony or exhaustive site list is required.

• The Potsdam Conference, 1945 ↗

  Opening chronology and paragraphs beginning Despite numerous disagreements and One of the most controversial matters. Four occupation zones, postwar demilitarisation, Polish border administration and forced population movement; distinguish the 1945 arrangements from final treaty settlement. Retired historical series, not a source for current diplomatic positions.