SPECIFICATION INFORMATION:

•   AQA

  These webpages have been written to address the second section: 'The League of Nations and international peace' 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 the League of Nations element in the first section ('Conflict and co-operation 1918–1939') of the International Relations: the changing international order 1918–1975 specification.

  

Contents:

1.  Formation and Covenant

2.  Organisation, Membership and Powers

3.  The League in the 1920s

4.  Manchuria

5.  Abyssinia

6.  Why the League failed

7.  Interpretations 

8.  League of Nations Cascade 

9.  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 1-6 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 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.
  • 4.   Two weeks to go:
    Invite a friend to revise with you and do the Revision Activities together.  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! 
  • 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.