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This is a podcast designed specifically to help with AQA GCSE History revision. On twitter @GCSEHistoryPod
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Friday Oct 07, 2016
Friday Oct 07, 2016
The Paris Peace conference set the terms of the Treaty of Versailles which, in turn, set the course of European politics for the next twenty years. But the conference was basically run by three men and it was the competing needs and expectations of these three men that created the treaty. Who were the Big Three and what did they want?
Thursday Oct 06, 2016
Thursday Oct 06, 2016
Did the League ever have a chance of succeeding or was it always doomed to failure? In this essay question episode, three history teachers sit around a table and argue about the different reasons for the failure of the League of Nations. You are strongly advised to have listened to the previous League podcasts before you listen to this one.
Thursday Oct 06, 2016
Thursday Oct 06, 2016
The Italian invasion of Abyssinia is often said to be the death sentence for the League of Nations. But why did the League not act? How did the Invasion come about and what were the murky dealings that led to the Hoare Laval Pact?
Friday Sep 23, 2016
Friday Sep 23, 2016
During the 1920s, the League managed to deal with a few small skirmishes and small scale problems very well; but at the dawn of the new decade a more militaristic Japan started expanding in the Far East. Was the Manchurian Crisis what killed the League of Nations? Was it just the beginning of the end? Or was it just a simple mistake that the League could have learned from?
This podcast is designed to help with Topic 3 on Paper One of the 2017 exam.
Wednesday Sep 21, 2016
Wednesday Sep 21, 2016
Was the League of Nations doomed from the start? How was it created and who was a member? What structures and tools did it have to carry out its mission of preserving the peace after the Great War?
Wednesday Sep 21, 2016
Wednesday Sep 21, 2016
How did the relationship between Edward the Confessor and the Godwin family shape England in the years before 1066? And how, exactly, did a duchy of Northern France get involved? This covers the period from around 1030 up to the death of Edward the Confessor and is for the Period Study of the 2017 AQA Exam.