SPECIFICATION INFORMATION:

•   AQA

  These webpages have been written to address the first section: 'Peacemaking' of the Conflict and tension: the inter-war years, 1918–1939 specification and the recommended Scheme of Work.

•   OCR

  The webpages in this unit cover just one topic ('The Versailles Peace Settlement') in the first section ('Conflict and co-operation 1918–1939') of the International Relations: the changing international order 1918–1975 specification.

  

Contents:

1.  The Paris Peace Conference

2.  Aims of the Big Three

3.  Terms of the Treaty

4.  Germany and the Treaty

5.  How far did the Big Three achieve their aims?

6.  Interpretations 

7.  The Other treaties

8.  The treaties 1919-20: Achievements and Defects

9.  Treaty of Versailles Cascade 

10.  Self-test

  

Click the yellow arrow for advice on:

•  How to STUDY this topic:
  • 1.   Start by reading some easy sources – perhaps by watching the Make Germany Pay video, then read Peter Moss, or the ‘Basics ’ sheet in the ‘Going Deeper’ panel on this page.  Get a grasp of the basic story.  Make a list of key dates - leave space to add other dates you may discover during your studies.   It might be an idea to do this before you study this unit in class.
  • 2.   Work through the study sections 1-5 and 7-8 above.  You can do this over time as you study the topics in lessons.  Take advantage of some of the links to explore, more deeply, aspects of the topics which attract your interest.  Make notes, perhaps using the Cloze exercises and/or their pdf printouts to build a set of notes.  Use the Writing Development exercises to develop your writing and note-taking skills whilst cementing your learning.
  • 3.   Visit the historiography page to learn how historians have interpreted events, and to consider what YOU think about what happend.
  • 4.   Plunder the Cascade webpage to help you write any essays you are given.

•  How to REVISE this topic:
  • 1.   Pre-revision:
    Skim-read the study pages 1-7 in this unit to refresh your memory of what you have learned in the lessons.  Read, and make notes on, your notes.
  • 2.   Four weeks to go:
    Go through the topics on the Cascade webpage; for each, use the yellow arrows to think FIRST how you would answer, before checking against my suggestions.
  • 3.   Three weeks to go:
    Choose the revision factsheet which suits you best from the ‘Going Deeper’ panel, and learn it off by heart; get someone to test you on it.  Then, using the yellow arrows to check your answers, do and re-do the Self-test until you can get every question ‘right enough’.  Also, suss out the Smartass list of specialist terms with which to wow the examiner! 
  • 4.   Two weeks to go:
    Invite a friend to revise with you and do the Revision Activies together, using them as an opportunity to share all you know and rehearse your 'explain how' skills.
  • 5.   Last week:
    Go through the blue Exam-style Questions for your specification to rehearse how you will tackle the kind of questions you will meet in the exam.  Spend the last evening re-revising your chosen revision aid.