History study guides

A module overview of the long-term and short-term causes of the First World War for Singapore N(A)-Level Humanities (History elective). How imperial and colonial rivalry, Balkan nationalism, the alliance system and the arms race raised tension between the great powers, and how the July Crisis of 1914 turned the Sarajevo assassination into a general European war.

A module overview of the causes of the Second World War in Europe for Singapore N(A)-Level Humanities (History elective). Why the League of Nations failed to stop aggression, how Hitler's foreign policy and step-by-step expansion broke the peace, and why the policy of appeasement gave way to war over Poland in 1939.

A module overview of how the Cold War began for Singapore N(A)-Level Humanities (History elective). Why the wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union broke down after 1945, how the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan aimed to contain communism, and how the Berlin Blockade and Airlift became the first great crisis of the Cold War.

A module overview of how the Cold War developed and spread for Singapore N(A)-Level Humanities (History elective). How the Korean War and Vietnam War showed containment and the Cold War spreading to Asia, how the nuclear arms race created the fear of mutual destruction, and how the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

A module overview of how the Cold War ended for Singapore N(A)-Level Humanities (History elective). How Gorbachev's reforms and new thinking eased tension, why the communist governments of Eastern Europe collapsed in 1989, and how the fall of the Berlin Wall and the break-up of the Soviet Union finally brought the Cold War to an end.

A module overview of the course and end of the First World War and the peace settlement for Singapore N(A)-Level Humanities (History elective). Why the war became a deadly trench stalemate on the Western Front, why the Allies defeated Germany by 1918, and the main terms of the Treaty of Versailles and why Germans resented it.

A module overview of how authoritarian regimes rose between the wars for Singapore N(A)-Level Humanities (History elective). How Stalin gained total control of the Soviet Union, how Mussolini's Fascists took power in Italy, how the Nazis rose in Germany by 1933, and how the military came to dominate Japan, with the common conditions that helped dictators succeed.

A module overview of the course of the Second World War in Europe and the Asia-Pacific for Singapore N(A)-Level Humanities (History elective). How blitzkrieg won Germany early victories, the main turning points that swung the war against the Axis, why Singapore fell to Japan in 1942, and how the war ended including the atomic bombs.