Question 15a

Summary: Evaluate the view that Hitler and Mussolini were primarily responsible for the tensions that led to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939.

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Part I: Core Study: World War I 1914-1919: A Source-based Study
- World War I 1914-1919
Part II: National Studies
- Option A: Australia 1945-1983
- Option B: China 1927-1949
- Option C: Germany 1918-1939
- Option D: India 1919-1947
- Option E: Indonesia 1959-1998
- Option F: Japan 1904-1937
- Option G: Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-1941
- Option H: South Africa 1960-1994
- Option I: USA 1919-1941
Part III: Personalities in the Twentieth Century
- Option 1: Yasser Arafat 1929 to 2000
- Option 2: Joseph Benedict Chifley 1885–1951
- Option 3: Herbert Evatt 1894–1965
- Option 4: Mikhail Gorbachev 1931 to 2000
- Option 5: Emperor Hirohito 1901–1989
- Option 6: Ho Chi Minh 1890–1969
- Option 7: Kita Ikki 1883–1937
- Option 8: William Randolph Hearst 1863–1951
- Option 9: J Edgar Hoover 1895–1972
- Option 10: Mohammed Ali Jinnah 1876–1948
- Option 11: Alexandra Kollontai 1873–1952
- Option 12: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964
- Option 13: Nelson Mandela 1918 to 2000
- Option 14: Golda Meir 1898–1978
- Option 15: Robert Gordon Menzies 1894–1978
- Option 16: Bernard Law Montgomery 1887–1976
- Option 17: Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964
- Option 18: Ian Paisley 1926 to 2000
- Option 19: Leni Riefenstahl 1902–2003
- Option 20: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
- Option 21: Albert Speer 1905–1981
- Option 22: Achmad Sukarno 1901–1970
- Option 23: Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen) 1866–1925
- Option 24: Leon Trotsky 1879–1940
- Option 25: Woodrow Wilson 1856–1924
- Option 26: Isoruku Yamamoto 1884–1943
- Option 27: Zhu De (Chu Teh) 1886–1976
Part IV: International Studies in Peace and Conflict
- Option A - Anglo-Irish Relations 1968–1998
- Option B - Conflict in Europe 1935–1945
- Option C - Conflict in Indochina 1954–1979
- Option D - Conflict in the Pacific 1937–1951
- Option E - The Arab–Israeli Conflict 1948–1996
- Option F - The Cold War 1945–1991
- Option G - The United Nations as Peacekeeper 1946–2001