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Maintenance of peace and stability and the changing balance of power in Europe (after 1871)
Causes and impact of German foreign policy before the First World War
Reasons for the First World War
Reasons for the defeat of Germany and the other Central Powers
Impact of the First World War on one European country (to 1923)
Impact of the Paris Peace Treaties (1919-1923)
Impact of the policies of Alexander II Alexander III and Nicholas II
Causes and impact of the 1905 Revolution
Impact of policies of repression and reform (1905-1917)
Reasons for the October/November Revolution and rise to power of the Bolsheviks
Survival and consolidation of Bolshevik rule
Impact of Bolshevik rule (to 1924)
Benito Mussolini's rise and consolidation of power (1918-1926)
Domestic impact of Mussolini's Italy (to 1940)
Failure of Weimar Germany and Adolf Hitler's rise and consolidation of power (1918-1934)
Domestic impact of Hitler's Germany (to 1939)
Joseph Stalin's rise and consolidation of power (to 1941)
Domestic impact of Stalin's USSR (to 1941)
Successes and challenges of the League of Nations in Europe
Reasons for the Second World War in Europe
Reasons for Axis defeat and Allied victory (to 1945)
Impact of the Second World War on one European country (to 1949)
Reasons for the persecution and mass murder of marginalized groups in Nazi-occupied Europe
Responses to the persecution and mass murder of marginalized groups (to 1949)
Impact of policies in post-war USSR (1945-1953)
Impact of Nikita Khrushchev's rule (1953-1964)
Impact of reaction and re-centralization (1964-1982)
Impact of reform and transformation under Gorbachev (1985-1991)
Challenges of the transition to post-Soviet Russia (1991-1999)
Impact of Vladimir Putin on Russia (2000-2020)
Emergence of the Cold War in Europe
Impact of the Cold War on Germany (1945-1991)
Impact of the Cold War on Western and Northern Europe
Impact of the Cold War on Central and Eastern Europe
Impact of European political integration after the Cold War (to 2020)
Post-Cold War developments in one European country (to 2020)