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- “A period of economic stagnation and political decline.” To what extent is this a fair assessment of Spain between 1848 and 1914?
- “Mao’s swim across the Yangtze River inspired the renewed cult of Mao and provided an image of Mao as a leader for a new revolutionary generation.” (Rephrase as a question and make sure there's an element of debate, something with a scope for analysis)
- “Napoleon I’s domestic policies successfully reformed and modernized France.” To what extent do you agree with this assertion? (Rephrase, this is not a research question but an essay statement)
- A study of the Women’s Army Corps during World War II (topic only)
- A study of why the United States became involved in Vietnam. (narrow down, too broad, and it is too narrative, it does not invite analysis)
- Account for the successes of Nazi Germany in Europe between 1938 and 1942. (Rephrase so that it becomes a research question)
- Although the Night of Long Knives was characterised by the Nazis as Hitler taking a "courageous action which saved the German Volk from civil war,” he was motivated more by a desire to eliminate threats to his own supremacy within the Party and earning the loyalty of the Army. (make more succinct and it should be phrased as a question)
- An examination of the Greenham Common Peace Protesters (rephrase as a detailed question)
- An examination of the significance of British politics in the responses to the Jack the Ripper cases in the 1880s. (rephrase as a detailed question)
- An investigation into the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989. (topic only, not a research question)
- An Investigation into Tiananmen Square discussing the heroes popularised in Western Media and Deng Xiaoping’s "martyrs." (Topic only, change it to a research question)
- An oral history study on the role of women living in post-World War II Britain. (not a fully developed question yet)
- Analyse the development and importance of the trade union movement in one European country in the nineteenth century. (Include an element of debate or a point to make. Also, need to phrase it as a question)
- Analyse the main factors, which contributed to Hitler’s rise to power in January 1933. (Include an element of debate or a point to make. Also, need to phrase it as a question)
- Analyse the reasons for, and the nature of, opposition to Tsardom in Russia between 1855 and 1894. (Include an element of debate or a point to make. Also, need to phrase it as a question)
- Assess the impact of either Marxism or nationalism in Europe, in the second half of the nineteenth century. (Include an element of debate or a point to make. Also, need to phrase it as a question)
- Assess the role of Piedmont-Sardinia in Italian unification between 1850 and 1861. (Include an element of debate or a point to make. Also, need to phrase it as a question)
- Assess the successes and failures of the domestic policies of Napoleon III. (Include an element of debate or a point to make. Also, need to phrase it as a question)
- Cinema as History: Sir Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (topic only)
- Compare and contrast the part played by Lenin and Trotsky in the development of the USSR between 1918 and 1924.
- Compare and contrast the parts played in the Cold War by two of the following: Khrushchev; Brezhnev; Gorbachev. (Too broad)
- Did Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" initiative play a critical role in the collapse of the Soviet Union? (Make it: to what extent....)
- Did the Bielski Otriad experience the same internal and external conflicts portrayed in the film Defiance?
- Did the Soviet Union assemble missiles in Cuba in 1962 solely to protect Cuba from invasion? (Consider using "To what extent")
- Does oral testimony substantiate the view that life in East Germany got worse following the fall of Nazism?
- Evaluate the domestic policies of Mussolini between 1922 and 1939. (Perhaps better to focus on one of the 'battles' (Lira, Grain, Births) and evaluate that.
- Evaluate the successes and failures of Bismarck’s foreign policy between 1871 and 1890. (Include an element of debate or a point to make. Also, need to phrase it as a question)
- Examine the impact of the EU (European Union) between 1955 and 1995. (Time frame is too big, and narrow down impact on a certain aspect of a country / economy / section of society)
- For what reasons, and with what results, did communist regimes in Eastern Europe (excluding USSR) collapse (1989-90)? (This is an essay statement; turn it into an IA research question that invites debate and analysis)
- For what reasons, and with what results, did Disraeli play an important part in British politics between 1846 and 1880?
- How accurately can the battle of Teutoburg Forest be reconstructed through archeological fieldwork?
- How and why did the accounts of the storming of the Winter Palace in october 1917 differ in the film October and in the book A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924?
- How and why did the reports of the American newspaper The New York Times and the British newspaper The Times differ in their reports of the Soviet and American administrations during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- How did an admiration of Italian Baroque architecture and ancient mythology become reflected in the design and construction of the Palace of Versailles?
- How did newspaper reports on the death of Kennedy vary, and how reliable were they?
- How did the coverage of the Falklands/Malvinas War differ in the British and Argentine press?
- How did the experiences of British Second World War veterans serving in Europe compare with those in the Pacific?
- How did the geisha’s way of life change during the Meiji period?
- How effective was the Marshall Plan was in reconstructing Europe? (narrow down, perhaps pick a country and add a time frame, or choose an element of the economy or society.)
- How far were Republican divisions (perhaps specify which ones?) responsible for their loss in the Spanish Civil War?
- How historically accurate is the depiction of Saladin in the film Naser Salah el Dine, El (1963)?
- How significant was Fidel Castro’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?
- How successful was the Congress of Vienna in achieving peace and stability in Europe between 1815 and 1848?
- How successful were the Soviet Five Year Plans? (All of them? Which ones? Successful in what way, how will you measure / define success?)
- How successfully did Hitler promote the ideal of the family in the Third Reich? (hard to find sources that say otherwise)
- How useful is the art of George Grosz to the historian of Weimar Germany?
- How, when and why was the church/mosque/temple of [name] build and what can be learnt from the town of [name] in a defined period?
- In what ways did the Chinese communists use the traditional art form of opera to promote their ideology during the Cultural Revolution?
- In what ways did the guild system affect the development of Norwich?
- In what ways did the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration use photography as propaganda to support its programmes? (Is there enough scope for critical analysis in a question like this? Consider rephrasing)
- In what ways did the work of Henry the Navigator inspire Portuguese exploration?
- In what ways, and for what reasons, was the period 1815 to 1866 one of change for Austria?
- In what ways, and to what extent, were German and Austrian policies responsible for the outbreak of the First World War?
- Kent State: Was it the turning point in the Vietnam War?
- The German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. (topic only)
- To what extend was the involvement in the United States government and the CIA responsible for the downfall of Salvador Allende?
- To what extent can Nixon’s Vietnamization policy be considered a success?
- To what extent did collective security become a victim of economic problem in the inter-war years?
- To what extent did David Low's cartoons accurately reflect public opinion in Britain in the years before World War II? (Hard to find evidence on a topic like this, have you check what sources are available to you?)
- To what extent did divisions in Spain and in Spanish society cause the Spanish Civil War?
- To what extent did Louis XVI’s execution contribute to the "Terror" in France 1793?
- To what extent did the experiences of Vietnam veterans in Tulsa, Oklahoma mirror the US public’s overall perception of the war?
- To what extent did the successes of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift overshadow the negative outcomes for the Western Powers?
- To what extent do the film The Charge of the Light Brigade and the book The Charge: The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade was Lost agree on the apportioning of blame for the failure of the charge of the Light Brigade?
- To what extent does the film Amadeus accurately portray the final illness and death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (Not enough scope for evaluation/analysis?)
- To what extent does the film I Shot Andy Warhol faithfully portray the events of Andy Warhol’s shooting on the 3rd of June 1968?
- To what extent is the 2004 film Finding Neverland historically accurate in its account of the life of J M Barrie?
- To what extent were the demands of revolutionaries in France met between 1789 and 1794?
- To what extent were the Moscow Olympic Games of 1980 affected by Cold War tensions? (Bit broad, what aspects of the Olympic Games?)
- Triumph of the Will: Art, Propaganda or documentary? (Nice topic, but would need to establish clearly what constitues Art, Propaganda and Documentary)
- Victim or aggressor: An examination of German motives in 1914. (title only, needs to be a question)
- Was Hitler's "euthanasia" policy distinctively Nazi? (develop further)
- Was the Berlin Wall built simply to deny freedom to East Germans under Soviet rule or did it serve a greater purpose? (what does "greater purpose mean, be more specific)
- Was the crossing of the Luding Bridge in May 1935 a great communist victory against tremendous odds, or a minor skirmish exaggerated by the Chinese Communist Party for propaganda purposes?
- What was the cause of the Rwandan Genocide? (rephrase, too narrative, make more analytical)
- What were the causes of the Boston Massacre 1776? (too narrative)
- What were the contributions of Genghis Khan to the rise of Mongol power?
- What were the real motives for the different views held by Churchill and Chamberlain during the years previous to World War II? Rephrase, what do you mean by 'real' motives? How does one determine that?
- What were the reasons for the Allies bombing of Dresden in the Second World War and were they justified in destroying this city?
- What were the social, economic and political impacts of the launch of Sputnik on the US and USSR at that point in time of the Cold War? (try to include an element of debate, this could also be too broad and too fragmented, too many points to describe, keep it narrow)
- Who emerged on top from the Cuban Missile Crisis? (What is "on top", how do you define it? Be more specific)
- Why did Nicholas II survive the 1905 revolution, but lose his throne in the February/March 1917 revolution? (This is a former IB exam question)
- Why did the Special Operations Executive send aid to Tito’s communist Partisans? (Choose different command term to make it more analytical)
- Why was Charlemagne crowned Emperor by the Pope in 800? (This question could lead to a narrative response, consider rephrasing to add an element of debate)
- Why was Margaret Sanger a successful public advocate for birth control in the United States? (This question could lead to a narrative response, consider rephrasing to add an element of debate)
- Why was the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas important in the medieval Church? (Again, phrased like this, it could become a simple explanation as to why it was important. You need to rephrase so that you can analyse different elements of the debate)
- Why, and with what consequences for its citizens, was Dresden (any affected town could be substituted) bombed in 1945? (Could possibly lead to a narrive answer)
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Disclaimer again: Some of these questions/topics are great, others may be problematic. These questions are here to provide ideas only. The fact that these questions are listed here DOES NOT endorse the questions in any way. You should talk to your teacher about your ideas.
- Did education reforms successfully achieve Mao's aims in the Cultural Revolution?
- Discuss the reasons why the youth were eager to adopt the violence of the Red Guards during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
- How accurate is it to describe the Battle of Midway as the turning point of the Pacific War?
- How did Britain justify the policy of appeasement?
- How significant were Joan Clarke and Mavis Lever’s contribution to code-breaking at Bletchley Park bringing World War 2 to its end?
- How successful was the Zhenotdel in achieving its goals
- How successful were Mao's reforms in changing the role of women in Chinese society?
- How successful, from the point of view of the Soviet Government, was their Hujum campaign for the unveiling of muslim women in Uzbekistan?
- How useful is Eisenstein's film October as a source for Historians studying the Russian Revolution?
- In what ways and to what extent was terror an instrument of control for Lenin as he consolidated his rule?
- In what ways and with what reasons was the Zhenotdel a failed organisation?
- Is Alexander II's title as the 'Tsar-Liberator' justified in regard to his Emancipation of the Serfs (1861)?
- To what extend did Heinrich Brüning’s economic austerity policies contribute to the conditions that enabled the rise of the Nazi Party
- To what extent can Chiang Kai-shek’s domestic policies during the Nanjing Decade be labelled as fascist?
- To what extent can Nazi foreign policy between January 30th, 1933 and September 1st, 1939 be considered Intentionalist?
- To what extent can Russian mobilisation be considered the main cause of the First World War?
- To what extent can Speer be held responsible for the increase in German Armament production between 1942 - 1944?
- To what extent can the Korean War be considered a product of Cold War hostilities?
- To what extent did Adolf Hitler aim for global domination rather than control of Europe between 1925 and 1941?
- To what extent did Austria risk European war in order to expand their empires into the Balkans?
- To what extent did Eleanor Roosevelt's influence affect the participation of women in politics during the legislation of the New Deal laws (1933 - 1938)?
- To what extent did Franklin D. Roosevelt abandon isolationism before the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?
- To what extent did German tactical errors affect the outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad?
- To what extent did Japanese military, economic and political factors play a role in causing the Marco Polo Bridge incident of July 1937?
- To what extent did Milosevic's visit to Kosovo Polje in April 1987 contribute to his rse to power?
- To what extent did Qing internal conflict provide the conditions for the Boxer Rebellion?
- To what extent did the production of steel during the GLF affect the Chinese economy?
- To what extent did the status of women improve in China between 1911 and 1950?
- To what extent did Tsar Nicholas II's failure of leadership contribute to the Russian Revolution of 1905?
- To what extent did Tsarina Alexandra influence Tsar Nicolas II during 1915 - 1917?
- To what extent did weather conditions limit the effectiveness of German Blitzkrieg strategy in the Battle of Moscow?
- To what extent should Mao be held responsible for the Great Chinese Famine (1959 - 1961)?
- To what extent was Ataturk’s language reform instrumental in the modernisation of Turkey?
- To what extent was Bismarckian diplomacy more important that the Zollverein in the unification of Germany under Prussia?
- To what extent was German unification under Prussia a result of Bismarck's diplomacy?
- To what extent was Leon Trotsky essential to Bolshevik seizure of power in the October 1917 Revolution?
- To what extent was Mao genuinely seeking criticism in launching the 100 Flowers campaign?
- To what extent was Mao’s desire for political control a key factor that influenced his decision to instigate the Cultural Revolution?
- To what extent was nationalism the cause of German unification in 1871?
- To what extent was Spain during 1933 - 1975 a Fascist state?
- To what extent was the Abyssinian crisis the key cause of the collapse of Collective Security?
- To what extent was the administration of the mandate system 'internationalization' or 'annexation'?
- To what extent was the emancipation of the serfs an economic success and of benefit to the serfs?
- To what extent was the fall of the tasrist regime in Russia a result of the Tsar's own incompetence?
- To what extent was the increase of anti-semitism in Berlin diminished by the 1936 Summer Olympics?
- To what extent was the Kronstadt rebellion a call for democracy in Russia?
- To what extent was the NSDAP a Mittelstand party?
- To what extent was US diplomatic mediation between the communists and Nationalists during the Dixie Mission (1944 - 1945) compromised from the beginning?
- To what extent was WWI responsible for the Russian Revolution in 1917?
- To what extent were Mao's initial intentions of the 100 flowers campaign to improve the communist government?
- To What Extent were the Aims and Policies of the Social Market Economy (China) influenced by the New Economic Policy (Soviet)?
- Was Rosa Parks a genuine leader or an unintentional activist with regards to the Montgomory Bus Boycott?
- Was the Russian October Revolution of 1917 a mass insurrection or a coup d'etat?
- Was Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 justified as a means to save American lives?
- Were internal or external factors more influential in the formation of the CCP?
- What were the effects of internal resistance to Nazi Germany on the regime’s internal policy, and public perception?
- What were the key reasons behind Britain declaring the creation of a Jewish homeland within Palestine in 1917?
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- “Mao’s swim across the Yangtze River inspired the renewed cult of Mao and provided an image of Mao as a leader for a new revolutionary generation.”
- A study of the Women’s Army Corps during World War II (Topic only)
- A study of why the United States became involved in Vietnam. (Topic only, too broad, needs to be phrased as a question)
- Although the Night of Long Knives was characterised by the Nazis as Hitler taking a "courageous action which saved the German Volk from civil war,” he was motivated more by a desire to eliminate threats to his own supremacy within the Party and earning the loyalty of the Army. (Statement only, need to rephrase as a question)
- An examination of the Greenham Common Peace Protesters
- An examination of the significance of British politics in the responses to the Jack the Ripper cases in the 1880s.
- An investigation into the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989.
- An Investigation into Tiananmen Square discussing the heroes popularised in Western Media and Deng Xiaoping’s "martyrs."
- An oral history study on the role of women living in post-World War II Britain.
- Cinema as History: Sir Richard Attenborough's Gandhi
- Did the Bielski Otriad experience the same internal and external conflicts portrayed in the film Defiance?
- Did the Soviet Union assemble missiles in Cuba in 1962 solely to protect Cuba from invasion?
- Does oral testimony substantiate the view that life in East Germany got worse following the fall of Nazism?
- How and why did the accounts of the storming of the Winter Palace in october 1917 differ in the film October and in the book A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924?
- How and why did the reports of the American newspaper The New York Times and the British newspaper The Times differ in their reports of the Soviet and American administrations during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- How did an admiration of Italian Baroque architecture and ancient mythology become reflected in the design and construction of the Palace of Versailles?
- How did newspaper reports on the death of Kennedy vary, and how reliable were they?
- How effective was the Marshall Plan was in reconstructing Europe?
- How far were Republican divisions responsible for their loss in the Spanish Civil War?
- How significant was Fidel Castro’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?
- How successful were the Soviet Five Year Plans?
- How successfully did Hitler promote the ideal of the family in the Third Reich?
- How useful is the art of George Grosz to the historian of Weimar Germany?
- How, when and why was the church/mosque/temple of [name] build and what can be learnt from the town of [name] in a defined period?
- Kent State: Was it the turning point in the Vietnam War?
- The German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II.
- To what extend was the involvement in the United States government and the CIA responsible for the downfall of Salvador Allende?
- To what extent can Nixon’s Vietnamization policy be considered a success?
- To what extent did David Low's cartoons accurately reflect public opinion in Britain in the years before World War II?
- To what extent did Louis XVI’s execution contribute to the "Terror" in France 1793?
- To what extent did the successes of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift overshadow the negative outcomes for the Western Powers?
- To what extent do the film The Charge of the Light Brigade and the bookThe Charge: The Real Reason Why the Light Brigade was Lost agree on the apportioning of blame for the failure of the charge of the Light Brigade?
- To what extent does the film Amadeus accurately portray the final illness and death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
- To what extent does the film I Shot Andy Warhol faithfully portray the events of Andy Warhol’s shooting on the 3rd of June 1968?
- To what extent is the 2004 film Finding Neverland historically accurate in its account of the life of J M Barrie?
- Triumph of the Will: Art, Propaganda or documentary?
- Victim or aggressor: An examination of German motives in 1914.
- Was Hitler's "euthanasia" policy distinctively Nazi?
- Was the Berlin Wall built simply to deny freedom to East Germans under Soviet rule or did it serve a greater purpose?
- Was the crossing of the Luding Bridge in May 1935 a great communist victory against tremendous odds, or a minor skirmish exaggerated by the Chinese Communist Party for propaganda purposes?
- What was the cause of the Rwandan Genocide?
- What were the causes of the Boston Massacre 1776?
- What were the real motives for the different views held by Churchill and Chamberlain during the years previous to World War II?
- What were the reasons for the Allies bombing of Dresden in the Second World War and were they justified in destroying this city?
- What were the social, economic and political impacts of the launch of Sputnik on the US and USSR at that point in time of the Cold War?
- Who emerged on top from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- Why did the Special Operations Executive send aid to Tito’s communist Partisans?
- Why was Margaret Sanger a successful public advocate for birth control in the United States?
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Disclaimer again: Some of these questions/topics are great, others may be problematic. These questions are here to provide ideas only. The fact that these questions are listed here DOES NOT endorse the questions in any way. You should talk to your teacher about your ideas.
- An investigation into German social history: was Nazi ideology pro or anti women?
- Did collectivisation under Stalin succeed?
- Did Mao maintain control over the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution 1966-1968?
- Did Mao remain faithful to his ideological belief in the role of masses in his time as revolutionary and leader of China during the time period of 1936 to 1966?
- Does Joseph Stalin’s prowess in maintaining supreme personal authority over the Soviet Union extend beyond Niccolo Machiavelli’s archetypal authoritarian ruler, ‘the Prince’?
- How and why did Mao utilize the Chinese visual arts in the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1966?
- How crucial was the Long March to the CCP/Red Army and their victory in the Chinese Civil War?
- How did people come to believe in witchcraft in the fifteenth century and as such, what factors led to the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum and the European witch-hunt?
- How did primary, secondary, and tertiary education in Nazi-era Germany from 1933 to 1938 lead to the acceptance of Nazi anti-Semitism by the German youth?
- How did the ‘stab in the back’ myth contribute to the failure of the Weimar republic?
- How did the actions of Tsar Nicholas II contribute to the February Revolution?
- How did the failings of Kerensky’s Provisional Government from July to November 1917 influence the political engagement of the Russian population?
- How did the German economic situation contribute to Hitler’s rise to power?
- How did the influence of the sans-culottes change throughout the French Revolution 1789-1795?
- How effective was German foreign policy in dealing with the first and second Balkan crisis?
- How essential were cultural misunderstandings in creating hostilities between Indigenous Australians and European settlers in the early 19th century, after an initial period of peace upon British arrival in 1788?
- How important was the 1923 hyperinflation in undermining the Weimar republic?
- How important was the Berlin airlift in the Cold War?
- How important was the French Resistance to the successful operations of the Normandy landings of 6th June 1944?
- How important was the role played by the Parisian sans-culottes in the instigation of the Jacobin Terror?
- How important was WWI to the outbreak of the Russian Revolution?
- How important/influential was the signing of the Versailles Treaty in the fall of the Weimar Republic?
- How influential was Stalin in the formation of his cult of personality?
- How instrumental was US foreign policy in the bringing about of McCarthyism and the US public fear of communism?
- How significant was the Russo-Japanese War as a cause to the 1905 Russian Revolution?
- How successful was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa?
- In what ways and with what success did the Nazi party use the French occupation of the Ruhr?
- To what extent did Austria risk European war in order to expand their empires into the Balkans?
- To what extent did Mao control the Beijing Red Guards between 1966 and 1968?
- To what extent did Qing internal conflict provide the conditions for the Boxer Rebellion?
- To what extent did Stalin’s depiction of his relationship with Lenin contribute to his control of the Bolshevik party and the people of the USSR?
- To what extent did the Cultural Revolution modernise Chinese Opera in regards to political and social themes?
- To what extent did the failure of international relations in the Manchurian Crisis contribute to the success of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949?
- To what extent did the Kennedy family and their political associates contribute to the creation of the JFK legacy after his death?
- To what extent did the Nazis attempt to conceal the existence of extermination camps and to what extent did the German population remain unaware?
- To what extent did the Ruhr crisis negatively affect Anglo-French relations?
- To what extent did the Weimar Republic cause the 1923 hyper-inflation in order to strengthen their government?
- To what extent did the Young Plan lead to the rise to power of Adolph Hitler?
- To what extent did World War Two increase American women’s position in the workforce?
- To what extent is Hermann Goering's denial of his responsibility and knowledge of the Holocaust in the Nuremberg Trials plausible?
- To what extent was Ataturk’s language reform instrumental in the modernisation of Turkey?
- To what extent was Hitler’s rise to power due to the economic crisis caused by the Great Depression?
- To what extent was it militarily necessary to use atomic weapons on Japan at the end of WW2?
- To what extent was Leon Trotsky a key figure in the establishment of the successful Bolshevik regime, from 1917-1920?
- To what extent was Lin Biao culpable for his fall from favour and power, resulting in his subsequent death in September 13, 1971?
- To what extent was Stalin’s first Five Year Plan a success?
- To what extent was the Battle of Moscow (1941) a turning point in Operation Barbarossa?
- To what extent was the Bolshevik suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion a turning point for the Bolshevik regime?
- To what extent was the colonisation of Australia from 1788-1840 by the British considered legal and just?
- To what extent was the Emancipation Proclamation motivated by military and political strategy as opposed to abolitionist sentiment?
- To what extent was the Glorious Revolution of 1688 a true revolution?
- To what extent was the New Marriage Law successfully implemented in the People's Republic of China?
- To what extent was the October Revolution due to the failures of the Provisional Government?
- To what extent was the use of swing music in Nazi propaganda effective?
- To what extent were the 1936 Olympics a vehicle for Nazi propaganda?
- To what extent were the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima necessary for Japan’s surrender in ending the Second World War in 1945?
- To what extent were the children of the Hitler Youth indoctrinated by the values and beliefs taught to them at a school level?
- Was Chilean president Salvador Allende’s downfall a case of internal dissatisfaction or was United States intervention responsible?
- Was Otto von Bismarck or socialism responsible for the social welfare legislation of the 1880s in Imperial Germany?
- Was Rosa Parks a genuine leader or an unintentional activist with regards to the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
- Was the ‘100 Flowers Campaign’ an attempt at true liberalisation in China, or was it a deliberate attempt to discover critics of the regime?
- Was the Holocaust ‘designed’ or simply an extension of propaganda and anti-Semitic policies?
- Was the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 a means of recovery from short term economic crisis, or part of a longer term plan for expansionism?
- What led the Americans to use the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima and were the bombings necessary?
- What motivated the Great Purge in the Soviet Union from 1936-1938?
- What problems did the Warren Commission face when working with the FBI during evidence collection and how did this affect the Warren Commission’s final report?
- What was Germany’s main motivation in issuing the Blank Cheque during the July Days of 1914?
- What was the nature and effect of youth resistance in the Third Reich?
- What were Mao’s motives behind the Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1957?
- What were Mao’s motives for the ‘Hundred Flowers Blossom’ campaign of 1956-1957?
- What were the causes of discontent surrounding the conditions of the Versailles Treaty?
- Why did John F. Kennedy arise as the winner of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962?
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