Conflict in Europe (Option C) Band 6 notes

Conflict in Europe (Option C) Band 6 notes. They cover the following topics:

• Growth of European tensions, including:
  • the collapse of collective security
  • Abyssinia, the Spanish Civil War
  • Britain, France and the policy of appeasement
  • significance of the Nazi–Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• German foreign policy, including:
  • aims and strategy of German foreign policy to September 1939
  • impact of Nazi ideology on German foreign policy to September 1939
• Course of the European war, including:
  • German advances: the fall of Poland, the Low Countries and France
  • the air war and its effects: The Battle of Britain and the Blitz, the bombing of Germany
  • Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Stalingrad and the significance of the Russian campaign
  • Battle of El Alamein and the significance of the conflict in North Africa to the European War
• Civilians at war, including:
  • social and economic effects of the war on civilians in Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union
  • the nature and effects of the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied territories
• End of the conflict, including:
  • ‘D’ Day and the liberation of France
  • Russian counter-offensives 1944
  • final defeat 1944–1945
  • Nuremberg War Crimes trials