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Topic 11: Causes and effects of 20th Century wars

World history Topic 11: Causes and effects of 20th Century wars

This topic allows you study a range of 20th Century wars.

The study of each war needs to follow the three areas of 'prescribed content' and the themes identified within each area. However, the choice of case studies is entirely up to you (though you need to ensure that you have chosen wars from different regions). See below for the case studies that we have covered.

The three themes that need to be covered are:

Causes of war: economic, political, ideological, territorial as well as long-term and short-term.

Practices of war: the different types of war, guerilla, civil and wars between states; the role of technology in the outcome of the war; the role of the different theatres of war: land, sea and air, in terms of the outcome, the extent of mobilisation and the impact of foreign powers.

Effects of war: the ​the successes and failure of peacemaking; the territorial ​changes; economic, social and demographic impact; political impacts: short-term and long-term and changes in the role and status of war.

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