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c. What challenges did society face after the transition?
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian society faced tremendous instability. As you have seen, the 1991 hardline communist coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev demonstrated the deep-seated...
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c. How was displacement experienced by different groups
After 1945, refugees and stateless persons across Europe experienced harsh conditions in DP camps, often lacking documentation or a clear path to resettlement. Stateless people, especially from Eastern...
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1. Impact of the system of slavery on the USA Free
This page focuses on the key issue of slavery. Slavery was fundamental in dividing America and causing conflicts between North and South which ultimately led to the Civil War. The four points of specified...
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b. How was independence achieved?
The Haitian revolution began on 22 August 1791, and ended in 1804. It involved free black, mixed race, white colonists and the slaves as well as French, Spanish, British participants —with the ex-slave...
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Interactive quizzes
Here are interactive quizzes for this topic on First World War - 25 interactive questions on each page. Here are 25 questions on the causes of the First World War Here are 25 questions to test your knowledge...
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7. First World War: Quizzes
In this section you can find quizzes which can be used as a starters to a lesson or as an end of topic quiz. For the multiple-choice quiz there is also an interactive quiz version here: Interactive quizzes ...
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b. Post-conflict peace building
This page examines the difficulties of post-conflict peacebuilding after the war. These difficulties were partly due to the discontent that countries felt towards the Treaty of Versailles, but also because...
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b. The other Peace Treaties signed in Paris
The Treaty of Versailles dealt with specifically with Germany. Four separate peace treaties were signed in Paris: with Austria (the Treaty of St Germain), Hungary (Treaty of Trianon), Bulgaria (Treaty...
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a. Germany and the Treaty of Versailles
Following the armistice of 1918, the Allied leaders met to sort out peace terms at Versailles, France. This was a time of great optimism with many hoping that any peace deal would follow the ideas put...
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4. How was peace established?
The section examines the reasons why the war ended and the failed attempts to create peace in Europe via the Paris Treaties....