IB History Paper 3, Topic 15: Diplomacy in Europe Lesson Activities & Answer Key

This bundle set, which includes 15 lesson plans, four major study guides, and 10 Teacher Answer Keys, is aligned with the IBO's 2020 IBDP History Study Guide. The following lessons and topics include the following:

1. The View of the 'Big Three', the Terms within the Treaty of Versailles, Historiography on the Causes of the First World War and Debate (Primary and Secondary Source Readings and Rubric included);

2. The League of Nations - Successes and Failures on Resolving Conflicts and Disputes in the Interwar Years (Internet Research);

3. Fascist Italy and Ideology (Primary Source Readings);

4. Fascist Italy and Aggression from 1923 - 1941 - Group-Based Projects and Presentations (Rubric included);

5. Weimar Germany: Political and Socioeconomic Issues and the Emergence of Hitler and the Nazi Party (Primary Sources);

6. Nazi Ideology (Primary Sources);

7. Historiography on Hitler's Path to War (1933 - 1939; Primary and Secondary Sources);

8. German Aggression in the Interwar Years and the Beginning of the Second World War - 1933 - 1939 (Secondary Sources);

9. Path to War: German Foreign Policy and Aggressive Actions in Review: 1933 - 1939;

10. Stalin and Five-Year Plan, 1928 - 1942 (Primary and Secondary Sources and Charts);

11. Stalin and the Purges in the Interwar Years (Primary and Secondary Sources);

12. The Foreign Policy under Stalin, 1929 - 1939 (Primary and Secondary Sources);

13. Europe and the Preparation for War in the Interwar Years (Secondary Source); and

14. Munich Conference: Quotes and Class Debate (Rubric included)

15. The Wartime Conferences - 1943 - 1945 (Primary Sources)

Teacher Answer Keys include:

1. The View of the 'Big Three': Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George;

2. The Impact of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany from an Economic, Military, and Territorial Standpoint;

3. The Successes and Failures on the League of Nations' Ability to Resolve International Conflicts and Disputes in the Interwar Years;

4. Fascist Italy and Aggression in the Interwar Years from 1923 - 1941;

5. German Aggression in the Interwar Years and at the Beginning of the Second World War;

6. Path to War: German Foreign Policy and Aggressive Actions in Review: 1933 - 1939;

7. Stalin and Five-Year Plans - Successes, Failures, and Impact;

8. Stalin and the Purges: Causes for the Purges in the Interwar Years and Impact;

9. Historiography on Munich Conference, Appeasement, and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain;

10. The Wartime Conferences - 1943 - 1945: Agreements, Disagreements, and Impact

Detailed Study Guides:

1. The Second World War: Campaigns in Europe; Campaigns in North Africa and Italy; the War at Sea; the War in the Air; Technological Innovations during the War; and the Causes/Reasons for Nazi Germany's Defeat;

2. The Soviet Union and the Second World War: A Political, Military, and Socioeconomic Detailed Review;

3. Great Britain and the Second World War: A Political and Socioeconomic Detailed Review;

4. The United States and the Second World War: Political, Economic, Social, and International Detailed Review